Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Halfway math

Today I'm halfway the 7 circles with 35,000 done of 70,000
I'm starting to recognize the problems.
That doesn't mean that I remember always the solution, but that I realize "hey, I've seen this one before."
I have done some counting and 32 % of the problems look familiar.
The rating stays level but the succesrate has crawled up with 0.9 % to 79.9 % !
I just can't force myself to gamble so I take my time with every problem.
26 % of the problems are solved by pattern recognition alone.

The same in other words:
From the 10,000 problems in the problemwindow:
3,200 problems look familiar
2,600 patterns are stored in my system
5,400 problems I have to calculate
2,000 problems make me fail.

An increase of 0.9 % in succesrate means that I solve 90 problems more than before.


CTS
circle 0: 1470
circle 1: 1500
circle 2: 1520
circle 3: 1520
circle 4: 35,100 /70,000
Highest rating 1567

6 comments:

  1. Congrats on the halfway mark. This is one of the most interesting experiments yet amongst the Knights. Plus, I really, really want to put you in my 'knights victorious' sidebar....

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  2. Congratulations. There may be someone even more obsessed than our own Sir Howling Belly! On the CTS server "tomorrow" is close at #2. Lookout! (hehe)

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  3. King,
    that's why I posted wednesday:
    I'm the #1 at CTS until tomorrow overtakes me at the end of the week!!

    It's not a thing I'm worried about. You always find people who want to be #1 in whatever exotic occupation. If that's his only goal he will have to find a new occupation soon:)

    BTW it's obesed, not obsessed.:)

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  4. good points. thank you for pointing me to this post dirk. i actually read this last week, so again, your post helps deminish my sense of isolation at CTS and allows me to feel part of a community of users.

    i never thought of doing thousands of CTS problems as one of the circles, but you are completely right. so at 13,000 problems, im at circle two there--since most of the time of practice, ive had more like 6 or 7,000 reachable. now im more at 9800.

    hope all is well, david

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