I wondered if you could use a Geiger counter with background radiation to do the same thing, but it'd probably be thrown off by moving between different rooms.
Re:IBM Audible Random Timer
by zitterbewegung on Saturday August 03, 2024 @07:50AM
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Yes you can it is a type of quantum random number generator. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generat...
The biggest drawback is non uniform distribution and low bit rates. Another was radiation concerns.
I think you’d need a very insensitive Geiger counter. Mine is relatively cheap (GQ GMC320) and still clicks 30 times per minute as background radiation.
You could put it inside a box maybe.
Re:IBM Audible Random Timer
by mystified5016 on Sunday August 04, 2024 @02:49PM
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Make sure you note down what you're doing each time the cat dies and hand the report to your supervisor at the end of each week
> Probably saleable as an app today, with a cloud-hosted back end.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bereal-photos-friends-daily/id...
But a corporate version!
Similar to Reporter:
Oh I built one of those with Rust and FLTK: https://six-five-six-four.com/git/reactor/annoying_journal
I figured if it works for software profiling it oughta work for people. And I set the interval to some Golden Ratio thing like 37 minutes, with the hopes that it wouldn't log the same times every day, but also wouldn't be purely random.
Wait, so how well did it work?
I don't remember any big insights except that I'm pretty bad at estimates.
Everything that feels like a "half-day" task took an entire day or two. I would look back on every feature and think, "No way was I working on that for X days straight?"
Basically nothing takes less than half a day.
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC225293/pdf/mlab...
[2] https://www.hca.wa.gov/assets/billers-and-providers/particip...