TomM comments on Anti-akrasia tool: like stickK.com for data nerds - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dreeves 14 October 2011 12:27:24AM 0 points [-]

It should be, but I've never tried it with a ping gap other than 45 minutes! The way to find out is to count the actual number of pings in your tagtime log that have the relevant tags on a given day. Your beeminder datapoint for that day should be gap/3600 hours, where gap is the ping gap specified in your tagtime settings (45*60 by default).

Oh, and do a git pull if you haven't since last week or so -- at one time it was in fact hardcoded for 45 minutes.

Comment author: TomM 14 October 2011 02:04:55AM *  1 point [-]

Actually, looking more carefully, beeminder is calculating accurately for an average of 25 minutes per ping.

Tagtime however got enthusiastic last night - while it pinged me normally for most of the night, it pinged eight times in the hour between 4 and 5 AM.

Beeminder then (reasonably) put me down for an extra hour of sleep that I didn't actually get.

Them's the breaks when dealing with randomised polling!