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Killerrabbit · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:35 pm Post subject: Pirates has work

According to the Pirates@Home website it seems they have about 30K WU's to crunch. So go and get them before they go the way of the dingo and take your shirt.

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Al Dente · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 6:50 am Post subject:

Now you see 'em, now you don't.

BTW, have you seen the Mechanical Turk - I've just added a whole 1 point to my Pirates score.
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mohrorless · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:39 am Post subject:

Killerrabbit · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 10:40 am Post subject:

How much do you have to do to add a point?

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Al Dente · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:43 pm Post subject:

You have to type in a couple of those distorted text thingies they use to check whether you're human or not - 8 of those and you've got one whole Pirates point.

I think they're using it to fill in some of the gaps in OCR-read documents when they're digitising old books, so there's some usefulness to the excersise.
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mohrorless · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 2:37 pm Post subject:

Al Dente · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:51 pm Post subject:

Well, they've upped the credit to ¼ point per go; I've just added a dozen to my score in 10 minutes or so.

Then I noticed that there's some sad bugger from Finland with a bit of time on his hands who's added nearly 3000 points in 2 days. At 1/8 point per go, that's 24,000 in 48 hours or 500 an hour (with no sleep). He must have had himself, his wife, 3 kids and his dog all typing away madly! Rolling Eyes

I gave up at that point.
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Killerrabbit · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:01 pm Post subject:

Or else that person has no life and was just doing that hours on end.

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Killerrabbit · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:04 pm Post subject:

According to the server status page there are 30K+ WU's to curnch yet when I attach it says their is no work from the project. What gives?

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Al Dente · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:01 pm Post subject:

That's 31,368 Total WUs. The "Results ready to send" is a big fat zero.

On the Turk front, I spent ½ hour on it and moved up 2 places in the World standings (at ¼ point per go); but they've now knocked it down to 0.1 point/go, so that progress would now take a couple of hours (I NEED coffee quite frequently). Laughing

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