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I'm developing the theory that my present state of happiness can be
derived numerically from a number of simple factors. The formula isn't
complete, but here's a peek at the factors I think weigh most heavily
in the computation.
Factors range from 0-1, with zero being the least and 1 being the
greatest. To confuse matters, for some factors small is good and for
others small is bad. Eventually I'll have pretty icons to indicate
this.
The preceeding X- in front of the factor name is in honor of the much
acclaimed (hey, it could have been) X-Bitterness-Factor:
RFC822 header.
- X-Bitterness-factor: 0.2
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My present state of bitterness. This is a good overall judge and
may, in fact, represent the weightiest value in the finished
formula.
- X-Pretty-girl-factor: 0.1
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This factor is directly related to the number of pretty girls I had
seen immediately previous to updating these statistics. Note
that this factor is really no longer meaningful, because I spend
the majority of my time with Marina. Updated note: Until
8/7/2002 Marina is in Russia so this means something again. ;-)
- X-Poverty-factor: 0.50
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How poor do I feel?
- X-Tiredness-factor: 0.25
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This is a complex factor related to both the amount of sleep I've
been getting and the hard-to-quantify Interest-factor. You'll see
this one grow exponentially toward the end of the quarter.
- X-Interest-factor: 0.3
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How interesting is my life right now? This is a hard factor to
quantify, as I feel it is somehow recursively related to the
elusive total factor I am trying to compute. Regardless, I will
include it for now.
- X-Productivity-factor: 0.6
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This is an index of how productive I feel I am being versus my
potential. Some days you just can't get anything done...
- X-Pretty-day-factor: 0.5
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If it's a beautiful day, I'm bound to be in a better
mood. No getting around that.
- X-Shagginess-factor: 0.5
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Now that the Hippie Freak days are over and I'm back to having
short hair, this factor is baselined on a look about like the
front page image at 0.0. 1.0 is Mountain Man. ;-)
- X-Currency-factor: 6/30/2002
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This meta-factor is merely the last time I updated this page. ;-)
Note that this list is still flexible and might change from time to
time. Hopefully soon I will automate its generation so I can keep
it reasonably up-to-date.
If you haven't figured it out yet this is all bunk... It's
fun, though.
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