Getting others to do the work on exponents I like (was: Trial Factoring Progress)

[tuckerkao]

Originally Posted by kriesel

Very well, summon a PRP-P result.

Whoever firstly figures out the correct summoning formula wins the game and be famous forever.

Originally Posted by Viliam Furik

I'd like to, but it seems I first need to find an exponent worth complaining about.

But also, I would have to complain about a PRP-P exponent, because my power is in making them be finished and reported immediately.

I feel something that if I really have successfully stroke a deal with Uncwilly, then I should start my 8 consecutive weeks from the exact midnight server time, Sunday, Dec 25, 2022 for this summoning power to unleash at the maximum strength.

To ensure that I track the 8 consecutive weeks correctly, it'll be easier to start from a Sunday, the 1st day of the week.

I should be able to bring all the remaining M168M exponents from (2⁷⁴ or 2⁷⁵) to 2⁷⁶ some time during the Christmas Day with the exception that if other users have already reserved certain exponents there.

Make sure you dress up as the Santa at that time.

[VBCurtis]

I'll be a bit amazed if you go 8 days without posting, never mind 8 weeks.

[tuckerkao]

Originally Posted by VBCurtis

I'll be a bit amazed if you go 8 days without posting, never mind 8 weeks.

I reserved every single remaining unfactored M168M exponents that have not yet reached 2⁷⁶ or higher. It's around 1 day left until the fully completion, see this list(If no more TF assignments reserved in the M168.8M and M168.9M subranges, that means I've finished.) - https://www.mersenne.org/assignments...=169000000&f=h. Clean the house up and ready for the next challenge.

8 consecutive weeks without me posting on this forum starting from Dec 25th, 2022 is definitely possible because bringing up all the M168M exponents from 2⁷⁶ to 2⁷⁷ will take much longer. Even a single subrange can take up to 2 months using my current GPUs. There will be a long time that I'll have nothing to announce as my next Mersenne achievements unless I accidentally steps on that 1 in a million chance which 1 of my PRP test turns out to be P-PRP.

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by tuckerkao

8 consecutive weeks without me posting on this forum starting from Dec 25th, 2022 is definitely possible because bringing up all the M168M exponents from 2⁷⁶ to 2⁷⁷ will take much longer.

Please complete what was promised. Listening to this /might/ help... Fluke -- Risotto full album. Silence otherwise; or maybe some noise you enjoy...

A sincere challenge... 8^)

[tuckerkao]

Originally Posted by chalsall

Please complete what was promised. or maybe some noise you enjoy...
......
A sincere challenge... 8^)

I'll play Hero Wars instead because I've already found a strong guild with some teammates that chat very frequently there.

Be exact: 56 nonstop days count from Sunday, Dec 25, 2022(Day 1) is Sunday, Feb 19, 2023(Day 57).

[Uncwilly]

I moved the GO! game to a more proper forum:
https://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=28330

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

I moved the GO! game to a more proper forum:
https://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=28330

No problem.

This is actually a proper game of Go. He actually knows the game!

[Dr Sardonicus]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

The civil thing to do when editing a quote is to indicate the omission as below

You left out the part where I was talking solely about the 332M range. That is what I was referring to at the end of the quote.
In context...


If you do a deceptive quote like you did above again, you might get a break of a couple of weeks

No. I have already banned him for a month, twice, for this sort of thing. See this post from March.

I will ban him for a year. Starting immediately.

[Uncwilly]

Any time not posting because of a ban does not count toward my commitment to work on 168M exponents if he refrains from posting. I used the words refrain from and not are restrained. So, my terms are clear enough.

[Stargate38]

I just looked on Mersenne.org's Top 500 contributors (over the past year), and Tucker Kao is at #27, compared to TJAOI, who's at #58. So Tucker Kao is doing more work himself (assuming male gender based on the name "Tucker") than TJAOI (who even has a thread about them). That alone makes the forum ban look unnecessarily long, IMHO. Maybe it should've been 2-3 months instead of 1 year. Please fix that ASAP or unban him altogether. Besides, I think banning someone for a prolonged period (i.e. > 4 months) because of a misquote (or deceptive quote) is way too harsh. Please let him return to this forum by the end of April, and be more forgiving. If someone lied to me, I wouldn't hold a grudge against them indefinitely, but instead would show short term anger in the form of a proper verbal/text response, and then forgive them afterwards.

@Uncwilly: Why not? If he's not posting for such a long period, there's no reason to avoid the range altogether. If I were active on PrimeNet, I would choose a range outside the mainstream "wavefront" (not necessarily Tucker's preferred range, but basically anything <10^9) to run TF. I'm currently using my CPU to run Aliquot sequences outside the main projects, such as this one, which I didn't touch for quite a while, but am now working on the C106 of i2321 after adding quite a few terms to it. As for my GPU, I use it more towards the 10^9<p<2^32 range, but I always look to make sure I'm not poaching someone else's exponent.

[Dr Sardonicus]

Originally Posted by Stargate38

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Besides, I think banning someone for a prolonged period (i.e. > 4 months) because of a misquote (or deceptive quote) is way too harsh.
<snip>

You're being deceptive. And since the facts are readily available, it's fair to infer that your deceptiveness is knowing and intentional. At the very least, it is in reckless disregard for the truth.

Have a care! I have very little patience for that sort of thing.

For ease of reference, I again give the link I provided just a few posts back in this thread. It documents Tuckerkao's offenses.

He didn't just misquote. He mischaracterized what other posters were saying. As far as I'm concerned, even a permanent ban would not be too harsh for that. And he didn't just do it once. He did it repeatedly (and he even lied about having done so). I banned him this conduct, for a month - twice. And when I issued that second month-long ban, I warned him publicly that if he did it again, I would ban him for at least a year.

He did it again, and I banned him for a year. It was the least I could do.