@GetReporter I'm also curious about the prompts. How do you ... • Aaron Parecki

Reporter App https://twitter.com/GetReporter • Feb 9
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@GetReporter I'm also curious about the prompts. How do you determine the schedule? Is it truly unpredictable? More background here: http://messymatters.com/tagtime/#UNP

Portland, Oregon, USA

Sun, Feb 9, 2014 10:47am -08:00 #reporter

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Have you written a response to this? Let me know the URL:
- Reporter App twitter.com/GetReporter
  
  @bmndr @aaronpk granted, there’s something to that. we also want to make a product with good usability that won’t feel broken or annoying
  
  Sun, Feb 9, 2014 12:01pm -08:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Beeminder twitter.com/bmndr
  
  @GetReporter @aaronpk Why uniform randomness breaks unpredictability: If no prompt in last hour (or whatever freq) then you know one's due.
  
  Sun, Feb 9, 2014 11:55am -08:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Beeminder twitter.com/bmndr
  
  @GetReporter @aaronpk Specifically, the prompts shd be a Poisson process (gaps betw prompts = exponential distr). See tagti.me
  
  Sun, Feb 9, 2014 11:12am -08:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Beeminder twitter.com/bmndr
  
  @GetReporter @aaronpk Oh, hey! Regular (uniform) randomness is no good! Needs to be a memoryless distribution to be unpredictable.
  
  Sun, Feb 9, 2014 11:05am -08:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Reporter App twitter.com/GetReporter
  
  @aaronpk you can see the frequency / day plotted here from my work with the app in 2012: feltron.com/ar12_02.html
  
  Sun, Feb 9, 2014 10:51am -08:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Reporter App twitter.com/GetReporter
  
  @aaronpk it’s regular randomness… we take the requested frequency and offset it by a random amount between +/- 1/2 the frequency.
  
  Sun, Feb 9, 2014 10:50am -08:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)

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