[QUOTE=LaurV;582484]There is nothing like a joke killer.[/QUOTE]Nope, can't kill what's already DOA.

the primality test of the Mersenne number you are testing is almost complete, and you are dying for a pee, but you will not go to the loo until your computer reports whether the number is prime or not.

the police raid your house looking for a cannabis factory, suspecting you have one due to the amount of heat being generated.

(It is fairly common in the UK for the police to use thermal imaging cameras in helicopters to search for areas where a lot of heat is generated. A friend with a large amount of land, and big outbuildings, says he often sees them scanning his property. He waves at them.)

You just might be addicted to GIMPS [B]iff[/B]... [SPOILER]relying only on the server to get assignments[/SPOILER].

[QUOTE=drkirkby;584279]the police raid your house looking for a cannabis factory, suspecting you have one due to the amount of heat being generated.[/QUOTE]Variants of this WRT to e- usage have been posted several times before.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;584342]Variants of this WRT to e- usage have been posted several times before.[/QUOTE]Feel free to delete my joke if it is too similar to several that has been posted before.

[QUOTE=drkirkby;584453]Feel free to delete my joke if it is too similar to several that has been posted before.[/QUOTE]Feel free to read the thread before posting to it.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;584475]Feel free to read the thread before posting to it.[/QUOTE]

To be fair, that's not a simple task. This thread has 881 posts (including this one). That takes some time...

OTOH, it is doable in one long reading session.

[QUOTE=Viliam Furik;584504]To be fair, that's not a simple task.[/QUOTE]Meh. Read the seminal threads for the creation of the major GPU applications' development. Some of those are nearly 3000 or 3500 posts each. Take notes with urls for later reference. Reread about annually in the first few years of GPU computing.

[QUOTE=kriesel;584507]Some of those are nearly 3000 or 3500 posts each. Take notes with urls for later reference. Reread about annually in the first few years of GPU computing.[/QUOTE]

You might be addicted to GIMPS if you have a Dewey Decimal system for this forum...

[QUOTE=kriesel;584507]Meh. Read the seminal threads for the creation of the major GPU applications' development. Some of those are nearly 3000 or 3500 posts each. Take notes with urls for later reference. Reread about annually in the first few years of GPU computing.[/QUOTE]

"There is always something worse, than what one is complaining about." - slight paraphrase on the second part of this: "Nothing is ever so good that it can not be better, but nothing is ever so bad that it can not be worse." To complete the truth table - "Nothing is ever so good that it can not be worse, but nothing is ever so bad that it can not be better."

One of these four is a Slovak saying, but I'm no longer sure which one because I think all four of them are equally valid, and thus I think of them as being inseparable.


To the post -> Yes, that's even longer reading. But I've intentionally written: "OTOH, it is doable in one long reading session."

[QUOTE=Viliam Furik;584504]To be fair, that's not a simple task. This thread has 881 posts (including this one). That takes some time...

OTOH, it is doable in one long reading session.[/QUOTE]Thank you. I was well ****ed off when I read the comment from Uncwilly. I thought the thread was suppose to be a bit of fun. There are of course umpteen references to the number of computers people own, the amount of heat generated, and the electricity cost. There's another about grow house, and this being detected by the electricity company. Well here, when people take over somewhere and grow weed, then normally fiddle the electric, so that's often hard to detect. Thermal imaging detects the heat, even if the metered electricity is low.

I thought the comment was rather personal. I think had anyone else written the exact same words, nothing would have been said.

Several things went through my mind after reading the comment from Uncwilly,
[LIST=1][*]pkill -9 mprime and leave this project.[*]Finish exponents I'm doing (I submitted two earlier today, and a third will finish in 15 minutes), then leave.[*]PM Uncwilly and ask why was the comment made. It seemed rather childish.[*]Eventually I decided to ignore the comment, and carry on.[/LIST]

[QUOTE=drkirkby;584521]Several things went through my mind after reading the comment from [b]<anyone>[/b] ... [/QUOTE]If you want to let one post from one person discourage you then that's your choice of course. But I'd say don't let others control your actions. Do what [i]you[/i] want to do.

And I don't have any moral high ground here either. I also have posted repeat stuff and been called out for it. Such is life, we can't all be perfect. Life still goes on.

... if LL and PRP tests become as easy as this:
[CODE]
def LL(p):
x = 4
for i in range(1, p-1): x = pow(x, 2, 2**p - 1) - 2
return x

PRP = lambda p: pow(3, 2**p - 2, 2**p - 1)[/CODE]

[B]You just might be addicted to GIMPS[/B] [SPOILER](or just plain desperate) if you are the lead supporter of QA and Cat 0 but you are also the only one to systematically taste the box of chocolates (test the predictions) in the "Predict M52" thread (even the predictions of the ones in your ignore list) because you never know what you're gonna get even if you are against numerology. [/SPOILER]

[B]And you just might be totally addicted to GIMPS if[/B] [SPOILER]you have a finger in every pie (post).[/SPOILER]

You get a smile on your face watching this video:
[url]https://youtu.be/kVbwALsQUrc?t=286[/url] (the time for those with only a little time)
[YOUTUBE]kVbwALsQUrc[/YOUTUBE]

You hang out on the Mersenne Forum on a Friday night for entertainment...
 

I friend of mine introduced me to [URL="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO5Da7kc1uvYwsSsnwcSCZg"]Rollin' Wild[/URL] yesterday. Finally had a chance to view this evening.

I had never heard of this team before, but their output is quite amusing. A particularly liked [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOOljk_LOcs"]The Chase[/URL], [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba62uuv-5Dc"]Rollin' France[/URL], and [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFYB652Yns8"]The Waterhole[/URL].

Apparently, they did the initial videos over a single session at a conference. Just to prove it was possible.

The seems to be inspired by the joke "This theory assumes all cows are spherical...

[QUOTE=chalsall;589178]I friend of mine introduced me to [URL="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO5Da7kc1uvYwsSsnwcSCZg"]Rollin' Wild[/URL] yesterday. Finally had a chance to view this evening.

I had never heard of this team before, but their output is quite amusing. A particularly liked [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOOljk_LOcs"]The Chase[/URL], [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba62uuv-5Dc"]Rollin' France[/URL], and [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFYB652Yns8"]The Waterhole[/URL].

Apparently, they did the initial videos over a single session at a conference. Just to prove it was possible.

The seems to be inspired by the joke "This theory assumes all cows are spherical...[/QUOTE]

:humorous:

When you first heard about the Log4j vulnerability your first thought was "How could hackers hijack code that generates logarithms? "

[QUOTE=tServo;595718]When you first heard about the Log4j vulnerability your first thought was "How could hackers hijack code that generates logarithms? "[/QUOTE]

As a matter of fact, I was thinking basically that! My first thoughts were about logarithms, then I was corrected by the video I was watching.

This image fills you with sadness.
[url]https://www.mersenneforum.org/gif/newposttrolls.gif[/url]

[QUOTE=tServo;595718]When you first heard about the Log4j vulnerability your first thought was [/QUOTE]ooh, with a big enough botnet I could outdo SRBase and Ben Delo.

[QUOTE=kriesel;596153]ooh, with a big enough botnet I could outdo SRBase and Ben Delo.[/QUOTE]

:clap:

[QUOTE=tServo;595718]... Log4j ...[/QUOTE][code]>>> import cmath ; cmath.log(4j)
(1.3862943611198906+1.5707963267948966j)[/code]Works for me.

You spend six days in the hospital because of an emergency, and you're most annoyed because you can't remotely SSH into your farm to manage the <2K P-1'ing, nor launch your Colab instances...

P.S. I'm OK. But it was a little scary for a little while...

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;596136]This image fills you with sadness.
[URL]https://www.mersenneforum.org/gif/newposttrolls.gif[/URL][/QUOTE]Technically that is a symptom of mersenne forum addiction, not GIMPS addiction, but they are closely related maladies frequently occurring together. Sorta like alcohol and other drugs including nicotine, but usually less deadly.
[QUOTE=chalsall;596355]
P.S. I'm OK...[/QUOTE]Presumably unrelated to the preceding. What happened?

[url]https://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?p=596290[/url]

[QUOTE=kriesel;596356]What happened?[/QUOTE]

I don't want to go too deep into the details, other than to say I'm both an asthmatic and a smoker (and an idiot). Oh, and also, that our medical facilities and talent here in little Bimshire are remarkably good.

[QUOTE=chalsall;596362]I don't want to go too deep into the details, other than to say I'm both an asthmatic and a smoker (and an idiot). Oh, and also, that our medical facilities and talent here in little Binshire are remarkably good.[/QUOTE]

Glad you're ok.

[QUOTE=petrw1;596364]Glad you're ok.[/QUOTE]

ditto.

Thanks. Much meditation on this experience is to commence...

[QUOTE=chalsall;596368]Thanks. Much meditation on this experience is to commence...[/QUOTE]Be good to your self going forward. Given the thread title, consider all the hardware and electricity that the currency cost of smoking supplies could be paying for instead.

[QUOTE=kriesel;596369]...consider all the hardware and electricity that the currency cost of smoking supplies could be paying for instead.[/QUOTE]

LOL. Thanks; I needed that. And, copy.

True story
 

In my dream I went to: Account / My Account / Results
to see if I've found any factors, expecting a couple; but I see over a dozen and it's so exciting I physically woke up.

PS sadly it was only a dream. I did not see a dozen when I wake up.

You just might be addicted to GIMPS if publicly saying that the chances of the smallest untested exponent giving a Mersenne prime are slim because it does not fit the logarithmic heuristic, [SPOILER]but actually thinking that the probability is 50% because it will give a Mersenne prime or not, and somehow having the feeling that will definitely give a Mersenne prime... until proven otherwise[/SPOILER].

You just might be addicted to GIMPS if you note happily that your house has a 100 amper fuse by 220 volt and you ask all your 14 neighbours in the house if they could reduce their power consumption, because you need the whole power for a short calcualtion of your cluster.
It would be urgent, not taking long time and you promise you will make a house party afterwards.


:cmd: :whistle: :missingteeth:

You might be addicted to GIMPS if you have a hot room in your house.

[QUOTE=MattcAnderson;602671]You might be addicted to GIMPS if you have a hot [STRIKE]room in your[/STRIKE] house.[/QUOTE]In the winter.

With a window open.

You just might be addicted to GIMPS if your computers are hotter than [SPOILER]your girlfriend[/SPOILER].

... you shop for fast efficient hardware daily.

You just might be addicted to GIMPS if you are desperated that there is still no new Mp.
As you know that your computer can run 5% faster if you decrease the temperature by 10 degree,
you bay a sleeping bag and a box of your favorite beer on monday morning,
open the window, drink a beer and go sleeping in the sleeping bag.


Slow down your system and speed up Gimps !

Thread title if + you can swallow down an entire range of exponents with your high end kits.