#data collation

[mcytblrsexymen]

[image ID: a set of cells on part of the spreadsheet, largely in the 'j' and 'k' section. it has the following names: Jakefsmash, James Mariot, JamieJoan, JaneyLaney, Janitor, the, Jeff the Minion, Jeffory the Golden Heart, Jellie Panda, Jellie the Cat, Jerma985, Jermsyboy, Jerome, Jimmy Solidarity, Joe Hills, JoeBuz, Joel SmallishBeans, Joey Graceffa, JoJoSolos, Jschlatt, Jyksedi, K4, K4yfour, Kafers8bit, Kakujo, KaraCorvus, Karl Jacobs, Karl Marx, Katelyn, Katherine Elizabeth, Keralis, Keralison, Kier and Dev, Kim, KingTheGhast, and KirinDave. /end ID]

at the current moment you can take a screenshot of just about any point on our master counting list and get one of the most interesting and bizarre screenshots of mcyt fandom possible, i think. (also we're aware of the duplicates we'll go through and try to make sure we've caught all of them before we're done.)

[seud-luachmhor]

[princelancey]

Aston Martin Testing Summary (below the cut cause it got long)

Lance

Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3 (all from F1-Tempo)

Fastest Laps

Day 1 - 1:33.007 @ 6:12pm local on C3 Day 2 - 1:32.029 @ 4:04pm local on C3 Day 3 - 1:32.038 @ 12:17pm local on C3

Laps Completed

Day 1 - 54 Day 2 - 96 Day 3 - 46 Total - 196

Fernando

Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3 (all from F1-Tempo)

Fastest Laps

Day1 - 1:33.385 @ 11:35am local on C3 Day 2 - 1:33.053 @ 11:47am local on C3 Day 3 - 1:31.159 @ 4:55pm local on C3

Laps Completed

Day 1 - 77 Day 2 - 31 Day 3 - 74 Total - 182

it's clear the team focused a lot on race sims, they didn't use either of the red walled tyres at all during the test so our true quali performance is still to be revealed . The team seem happy with testing, Mike saying the car "ran like a clock" and that they completed their programme despite all the drain cover issues

overall fastest lap - Day 3 - 1:31.159 @ 4:55pm local on C3 (Fernando) total laps - 378

[rookflower]

How long will the survey be open for, and will you post about the results?

i'm not sure yet, probably about a week? i didn't know how many responses i would get, so wanted to wait to gague it. i will probably put out a 24hr (at least) warning on both twitter and tumblr before i do. it currently has 243 responses and it's been going up pretty fast, but will most likely slow down soon.

i'm very likely not going to post the raw spreadsheet data because there's a lot of it and it's messy and i haven't yet gone through to make sure there are no a) trolls or b) people who want to keep their responses private. however, i will likely process the data of the more straightforward questions (favourite character, favourite arc, the multi choice questions) (and potentially correlations between them depending how much of a headache that is) into some lists or charts or general observations and will share those eventually! basically i don't think i'll share Everything but i do fully intend to make some of the results public in some way, aye!

[notquitedeadpod]

Just did some counting and Neige calls Alfie "mon râleur" 40 times by the end of episode 31. "mon petit" comes in 2nd place with 33 times but evens out if you combine it with the 7 "little one"s

thank you for your important statistical work, this is incredible information. tracking Neige's nicknames is a good way to track the relationship, I think, as will become more clear as things go on. but I won't expand on that, I'll just let you all be feral about it. I dream of someone one day making some kind of Neige's nicknames graph. I'd perish of delight.

--- Eira xxx

[midnightactual]

to talk about AI in art more specifically, I think in so far as AI has any legitimate use in art, it's exclusively as an artistic aid. if you generate an AI image of a character, then draw on top of it using it as a loose reference (I'm not talking about tracing here), that's not really any different than using any other photo reference or inspiration. if you feed all of a character's dialogue to an AI, then have it crosscheck versus dialogue you wrote for them and make adjustments to your writing (I'm not talking about copying and pasting here), that's not really any different than having someone beta-read for voice or doing it manually yourself. it can be an effective tool for doing very specific and technical things faster and thus developing a better personal artistic intuition for them. it's acceptable as training wheels, like spellcheck but much more sophisticated

what is broadly unacceptable is to just let AI generate something and release it into the wild as-is or edited. AI making your life easier or giving you more confidence in making your art is fine. using AI to substitute for and try and shortcut the artistic process is not

[chicago-geniza]

Agnes. AGNES. Who's going to tell her--

[femmehysteria]

nothing more motivating than the fact that my final year university project will actually be read and used by the nhs

[pochapal]

The deleted sexyman that was mentioned? He was from EP3 before it got rewritten. Then his role was split among a few other characters which is why he never really saw the light of day. "What the fuck was EP3 going to be" is one of the favorite questions of the fandom, because while we can have some idea by the end of the story, ultimately is a big mystery with no set answer.

maybe the real beatrice is umineko episode 3. incomplete, incorporeal, a half-formed concept with little material basis.

[hollowwhisperings]

ASOI&Data: Life Expectancies of Targaryen Monarchs, Sums Only.

The average, "natural" lifespan for a Targaryen monarch is 47 years.

The average life expectancy of a Targaryen monarch is 43.6 years or 43 years & ~7 months.

The average "reign" (years survived post-coronation) of a Targaryen monarch is 14.39 years or 14 years & ~3 months.

(This average is skewed by Jaehaerys I, who reigned for 55 years, and misrepresents how "consistent" Targaryen rule was: 4 of the 18 monarchs included reigned no longer than 2 years at most.)

The average age of a Targaryen monarch at their (first) wedding is 15.54 years or ~16 years old.

The average age a Targaryen monarch first became a parent is 19.61 years.

With Aegon the Conquering Outlier removed, the average becomes 18.5 years instead.

(this calculation does not account for any illegitimate children conceived prior or during marriage)

18 Monarchs were used for these calculations, Rhaenyra I & Aegon II both included and with Aerys II as the last recognised monarch of the dynasty.

[mcytblrsexymen]

for those who are curious: we are less than a third of the way through tallying the nominations. we have counted, up to this point, 292 unique nominees already. you all have a wide range of sexymen, huh?

[randomfandomss]

I...hate...making.......presentat-*dies*

[promoniques]

How data sets from diverse geographical locations are centrally collated.

Industry 4.0 encompasses the idea of industrial automation and interconnected smart factories, extending beyond individual facilities to consider multiple facilities, the supply chain, and service providers working together to meet customer demands.

The industrial ecosystem’s interconnected systems and processes are essential for optimizing Industry 4.0 business models.

Enterprises operating in multiple locations typically adopt a phased approach to their digital transformation and Industrie 4.0 implementation.

In the initial phase, they focus on implementing either an IoT or edge computing framework in their main facility to capture and analyze data, allowing them to address any issues before scaling up the deployment to other facilities. Check out here for more.

[apas-95]

What criticisms do you have of direct democracy? Assuming it’s communist, as well as having laws about what can and can’t be voted on such as “no killing/disenfranchising the (blank) people” and “no voting for capitalism” (the actual laws would be longer but I don’t want to write a long paragraph about how you’re not allowed to vote for fascism in a fake direct democratic society)

While it's fine in the abstract, in practice it's exceedingly slow and inefficient - being a political representative in a council is a full-time job, and if every single decision made is subject to the popular vote, then both 1) polling itself takes considerably longer; and 2) the necessary amount of education and discussion needed to be carried out prior to a proper vote is much larger: rather than simply summarising the issue and presenting key facts to council members, a massive public education campaign now has to be carried out every time a new, say, regulatory standard for storm drains, is decided upon.

Which leads us into the other main criticism - in practice, people don't *want* to have to deliberate and vote on canal works every day. Either voting is mandatory, in which caee annoyed, disinterested voters are just randomly choosing without much thought; or voting is optional, and the vast majority of people aren't actually being represented in any given issue, because it's solely decided by whichever segment are motivated enough to get a campaign going. Here, delegating the business of understanding and making decisions on random organisational matters *does* genuinely lead to a more representative and democratic outcome.

Fundamentally, what we're talking about is division of labour - a factory is more efficient when each worker doesn't have to make a complete product by themselves. Bureaucratic and administrative work *is* still work, regardless of its political character. Again to bring up division of labour, in industrial society the operation of a single factory relies upon the co-operation of electrical substations next-door, power plants the next town over, logistics offices in the provincial capital, resources developed and extracted on the other side of the country, and the entire nation's collaboration on a unified economic plan; it is something that can only really be directed by a central authority that can collect and collate massive amounts of data to produce new courses of action - to try to operate such a body based entirely on direct democracy is, beyond any other considerations, both impractical and undesirable.

This is not to say there doesn't exist great political drive and passion among the masses, nor that they have no interest in the political process and their representation - but not everyone actually applies to be a council delegate during elections, because most people are fine with the council work itself being handled by a trusted representative.

In practice, the way communists have managed these matters is democratic centralis' - here are a few graphics explaining how representative democracy is carried out on the local level in China, as an example:

[reasonsforhope]

"Big batteries are muscling gas out of California’s electricity mix, according to data collated by Stanford University Professor Mark Z. Jacobson.

In the 100 days to June 14, California saw a 45% reduction in gas-fired power output, relative to the same period a year before.

The decline was mostly thanks to a surge in battery installations in recent months. The state now has 10.4 gigawatts (GW) of battery storage capacity — a technology it says is key to achieving a 100% clean electricity system by 2045.

Batteries are used to store energy from renewable sources like solar during the day so that it can be deployed in the evening, when solar generation tapers off and demand for power surges. These facilities are increasingly challenging the role of gas plants in meeting peak demand.

On the evening of June 10, for example, big batteries injected a record 7.7GW of instantaneous power into California’s grid. They accounted for a quarter of total electricity supply at that point.

And according to data from GridStatus, gas generation on an average April day in California hit a seven-year low, reversing an earlier trend that had been fuelled by rising electricity demand.

On 89 of the 100 days to June 14, there were periods where renewables generated more than enough electricity to cover all of California’s needs. This excess energy creates a strong business case for batteries, which can charge up when prices are low and discharge when prices are high.

Compared to a year before, utility-scale solar output was up 32% over the 100-day period, wind generation grew 10%, and battery output doubled, Jacobson says. Meanwhile, demand for electricity from the grid was down 3% due to new rooftop solar installations."

-via The Progress Playbook, June 20, 2024

[t6fs]

Greetings Fallen London Community

(Censustaker Cameo by @waterlogged-detective )

I am once again asking you all to please take my Census

The Nosy Censustaker has returned with a new, improved, and streamlined census. I received quite a bit of feedback on the first couple, and the biggest hurdle was collating freeform data in a way that was quantifiable. Therefore, I have put great effort into refining the census into something streamlined, thorough, organized, and accessible.

Additionally, a Summary of Respondants has been helpfully collated by the Taciturn Tiger!

Now, data collected by the Censustaker can be viewed easily, allowing us all to see the wide range of ways we create within, and interact with, the world of Fallen London.

As with before, this Census is in-character, and I welcome responses from characters without in-game accounts.

The data I'm hoping to collect is about the ways that creators and characters interpret and interact with the setting, less about how optomised the playerbase is in regards to gameplay.

And on that note, feel free to share it on platforms outside of tumblr. I am hoping to exceed my original dataset of 301 responses, I'd really like to take a close look at the population that lives and breathes in our sunken city.

(If i can find a way to do so, I may find even find a way to publish a volume of individual responses, but we'll see how this goes first.)

The Census will remain open for responses until January 1st, 2025 1899⁵