Most Likes Page: @mfb Approaching 5000 Likes on Physics Forums

[OCR]

For quantum theorists, it can be decided later.

Some believe, it's already been. . . .

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[mfb]

@Orodruin: Have you seen the new 15 featured threads trophy?

Above 1000 points!
Where is the 20 featured threads trophy?[/size]

 

[mfb]

@fresh_42 reached over 9000, grats!

Is it too early to ask about a 10,000 trophy?[/size]

 

[WWGD]

@fresh_42 reached over 9000, grats!

Is it too early to ask about a 10,000 trophy?

You're up for the 10K soon yourself. Maybe if we can get some 299 people to upvote this post I'm responding to?

 

[mfb]

@PeterDonis reached 8000!

You're up for the 10K soon yourself.

That is totally unrelated to the question about a 10,000 trophy, of course.

 

[PeroK]

Congratulations to @mfb on 10,000 likes. What an effort!

 

[mfb]

The effort came from the people clicking the button!
@bhobba was #10000 here.

Greg, can we get another trophy level please?

 

[Orodruin]

The effort came from the people clicking the button!
@bhobba was #10000 here.

Greg, can we get another trophy level please?

Based on the rest of your post we should instead get a trophy for number of reactions given out!

Congratulations!

 

[mfb]

@fresh_42 reached 10,000! Congratulations!

We still need a trophy for that!

 

[WWGD]

Wonder if there is any use in also tracking likes given and not just the ones received.

 

[jedishrfu]

Also there should a likes to posts ratio to indicate quality posts.

 

[mfb]

Likes given out would be an interesting number.

Also there should a likes to posts ratio to indicate quality posts.

Many users had many posts before the like system was introduced, and some forums don't count posts (but they do count likes). We have some users with maybe 50 counting posts and hundreds of likes from thousands of (uncounted) posts.

 

[phinds]

Also there should a likes to posts ratio to indicate quality posts.

Likes given out would be an interesting number.Many users had many posts before the like system was introduced, and some forums don't count posts (but they do count likes). We have some users with maybe 50 counting posts and hundreds of likes from thousands of (uncounted) posts.

And then you have me, for example, where I get a fair number of likes, not at all because of having quality posts but because of all the smart-ass remarks I make.

I remember at one point I had roughly the same number of likes as a couple of our better people but to compare the quality of my posts with theirs would just be absurd.

 

[jedishrfu]

@phinds you are too modest! We wouldn’t like them if we didn’t like them.

 

[fresh_42]

@fresh_42 reached 10,000! Congratulations!
We still need a trophy for that!

Thanks @all.

Also there should a likes to posts ratio to indicate quality posts.

I'm not sure whether this would be a good measure. I remember that I got likes for a - in my mind - silly joke, i.e. not an especially good one, while at the same time I got none for a technical answer which I put much more effort in and - again in my mind - would have deserved a like. The same phenomenon can be observed in the photo contests. It aren't necessarily the good pictures - from my point of view with respect to the art of photography - which get the highest vote count.

 

[hmmm27]

I've decided that likes vs posts are totally irrelevant

... but a $1 : 2\frac1 2$ ratio would be nice.

 

[PeroK]

I notice that @PeterDonis has just hit the 10,000 likes. A great effort! Must have got a few from me over the years.

 

[WWGD]

Thanks @all.

I'm not sure whether this would be a good measure. I remember that I got likes for a - in my mind - silly joke, i.e. not an especially good one, while at the same time I got none for a technical answer which I put much more effort in and - again in my mind - would have deserved a like. The same phenomenon can be observed in the photo contests. It aren't necessarily the good pictures - from my point of view with respect to the art of photography - which get the highest vote count.

I got plenty of HaHa votes in my technical answers!

 

[mfb]

Welcome to the 10,000 lounge Peter!

Small numerical coincidence here:

 

[berkeman]

You guys have a lounge? Is that what Greg built upstairs recently? Dang.

And can you please turn down the music? We're trying to concentrate down here...

 

[fresh_42]

And can you please turn down the music? We're trying to concentrate down here...

There is no way to listen to Lemmy low.

 

[mfb]

@Greg Bernhardt reached 8000. Congratulations!

 

[mfb]

@fresh_42 took the overall lead in likes at 11342!

11342 = 106*107

 

[Drakkith]

@fresh_42 took the overall lead in likes at 11342!

11342 = 106*107

Now he just needs to get up to 1,224,936 likes. That's 106*107*108.

 

[WWGD]

@fresh_42 took the overall lead in likes at 11342!

11342 = 106*107

Not anymore! I really ( and literally) liked your post. And suspense. Germans ahead.

 

[WWGD]

Now he just needs to get up to 1,224,936 likes. That's 106*107*108.

I remember Halls of Ivy at one point reached 32768= $2^{15}$ posts. It seemed like a shame to
write anything else , since he needed another 32768 to reach $2^{16}$

 

[WWGD]

There is no way to listen to Lemmy low.

I'll listen. Lemmy have it!

 

[mfb]

I remember Halls of Ivy at one point reached 32768= $2^{15}$ posts. It seemed like a shame to
write anything else , since he needed another 32768 to reach $2^{16}$

3¹⁰ = 59049 comes a bit earlier.
There is also 6⁶ = 46656.

 

[Stavros Kiri]

mfb 106•107 + 2 ...

= 709x2⁴

Also the previous (13342)/2 = 53•107 ...

Finally, Drakkith 4884 = 1221•4 = 407•3•4

 

[sysprog]

@OCR Perhaps a more positive song by John Prine (in reference to the "link" you provided) is "Hello in There" or "In Spite of Ourselves". His guitar playing is good in the song, but his songs "Sam Stone", "Angel from Montgomery", and "Dear Abby" are much more inspiring than the song in the "link". Anyway, I enjoy the "likes" page and I am glad the Physics Forums keeps this statistic.

ooh another John Prine fan
I got to see and hear him perform in Milwaukee,
and again in Maywood, IL, where he'd grown up $-$
I want to cry that we lost him to the virus $-$
I think that he woulda been even more upset that
we lost Mary Ann than that we lost him
even after he beat throat cancer
what a great songwriter singer performer he was $\dots$

 

[jedishrfu]

Yay @fresh_42! 10110001001110 is impressive!

and then there's the numdict analysis:

https://numdic.com/11342

 

[fresh_42]

Not anymore! I really ( and literally) liked your post. And suspense. Germans ahead.

This is probably due to the fact that against all rumors we actually do have humor!
E.g.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPZX7EZIFD0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lddoHQIZQto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n7VI0rC8ZA

 

[WWGD]

mfb 106•107 + 2 ...

= 709x2⁴

Also the previous (13342)/2 = 53•107 ...

Finally, Drakkith 4884 = 1221•4 = 407•3•4

There are other interesting ones around, like 40320=8!

 

[sysprog]

There are other interesting ones around, like 40320=8!

That one's good $-$ the problem of finding all mathematically interesting ZIP codes may be tougher than NP-hard or NP-complete $-$ what about halving the length? $-$ in the Chinese historical novel The Water Margin (the term refers to a swampy area) (the novel is part of The Three Kingdoms set of works) the Monks in the Shao-Lin Temple were killed as the Ching dynasty overthrew the Ming Dynasty and General Kwan and his 2 friends escaped and swore an oath of fidelity in the Peach Garden, and went to the marshy area with 108 Disciples.

$108=1^1 \times 2^2 \times 3^3$

 

[mfb]

That one's good the problem of finding all mathematically interesting ZIP codes may be tougher than NP-hard or NP-complete

All of them are interesting. If there would be a boring ZIP code then there would be a smallest boring ZIP code, which would be an interesting property - contradiction.

 

[sysprog]

All of them are interesting. If there would be a boring ZIP code then there would be a smallest boring ZIP code, which would be an interesting property - contradiction.

Of course that's right, but of course, that doesn't make all numbers equally interesting $\dots$

 

[Ibix]

Of course that's right, but of course, that doesn't make all numbers equally interesting $\dots$

But in that case the least interesting number is surely more interesting than the least-interesting-but-one number, which presents a problem.

 

[sysprog]

Of course we do know, interestingness partly inheres in us; not only in the things in which we're interested.

 

[WWGD]

All of them are interesting. If there would be a boring ZIP code then there would be a smallest boring ZIP code, which would be an interesting property - contradiction.

Still, we will always have boring machines ;).

 

[fresh_42]

Still, we will always have boring machines ;).

I use mine if I want to make whipped cream.

 

[mfb]

But in that case the least interesting number is surely more interesting than the least-interesting-but-one number, which presents a problem.

No, numbers can get decreasingly interesting as they get larger.

 

[Drakkith]

No, numbers can get decreasingly interesting as they get larger.

Well I hope you didn't tell them that. No reason to be rude to already overly-sized numbers.

 

[mfb]

Hey, it's not my fault that 758354^{5425224273734}+7523733544212⁶²⁶²³ is so large.

PS: This is likely the first time anyone ever considered this specific number. I made it far more interesting than before.

 

[fresh_42]

Hey, it's not my fault that 758354^{5425224273734}+7523733544212⁶²⁶²³ is so large.

PS: This is likely the first time anyone ever considered this specific number. I made it far more interesting than before.

You should name it and demand its prime factor decomposition to be listed on OEIS! Did anyone ever wondered that although we stress that $n\to \infty$ all the time, we rarely deal with anything larger than say 1,000,000?

 

[mfb]

A57534454646343
Prime factorization of 758354^{5425224273734}+7523733544212⁶²⁶²³:

2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)

 

[fresh_42]

A57534454646343
Prime factorization of 758354^{5425224273734}+7523733544212⁶²⁶²³:

2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)

Fresh conjecture: The 62,624th number of this sequence is greater than 3.

 

[mfb]

It's not:
758354^{5425224273734}+7523733544212⁶²⁶²³ = 2^{5425224273734}*379177^{5425224273734} + 2^2*62623 * 3⁶²⁶²³ * 626977795351⁶²⁶²³
The first 125246 numbers are all "2".

The first term is not divisible by 3 but the second is, so we do not get a factor 3.
Mod 5 the first term is 4 and the second term is 3, so the number is not divisible by 5 either.

@PeterDonis joined our club of 11,000+.

 

[WWGD]

How about an unlikely Benford number? Isn't then , e.g., 999.999 interesting, given it is unlikely to appear in a human-generated document? It seems the more you know the more you know , either everything looks interesting or nothing does.

 

[fresh_42]

There are lists of special numbers on Wikipedia.

 

[Stavros Kiri]

Hey, it's not my fault that 758354^{5425224273734}+7523733544212⁶²⁶²³ is so large.

PS: This is likely the first time anyone ever considered this specific number. I made it far more interesting than before.

How about converting that into a password. Then we'll probably see that "Sorry! This password has been used ..." (Don't you hate that!? ...)