So using Benford's Law, sort of, I was able to guess what position I am in total hits.
At least, I think you can poke it to say "the distribution of logarithms of natural/quasi random numbers is roughly evenly distributed." Or you can, less pretentiously, say...
(#50's hits) squared / (my hits) = someone's place.
101-that = my current rank.
I suppose I could graph everything out to see if my guess holds true for HG hits, but it's fun to be pretty sure I snuck up a place in the rankings in the past 2 weeks without KNOWING. A year-end goal (well not really--it's out of my hands) is to crack the top 50 and I suppose I could use a linear model to see how I'm closing the gap. I think I started 7000 back and it's at 5000. So I should make it, especially if I rewrite stuff.
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I also rewrote my script to parse my daily files. It was actually easy to use stupid tags on my writing (e.g. novel = stuff for a novel) and it folded into a lot of the xml creation at work and even my script to pull daily writing into my big writing file(s)--and best of all I don't have to use any stupid fun tricks to track it all.
That saves up my daily store of the stupid fun tricks that hopefully can give my writing the flavor I want.
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randxian - March 31, 2010 (08:49 PM) When I saw this topic, I thought it was a reference to that one page hosted on Something Awful. Maybe the SA one has two different numbers. |
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aschultz - April 03, 2010 (02:39 PM) Which page is that? I'm interested...I never get the chance to look there as much as I could. |
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