angrymartian/beingsocial

angrymartian/beingsocial:

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Weekly social activities

DAY	DELTA	TOTAL
Today	✔	31
Tomorrow	✔	31
Sun (5th)	✔	32
Mon (6th)	✔	32
Tue (7th)	✔	32
Wed (8th)	✔	33
Thu (9th)	✔	33

Datapoints ?

Your actual reported data. The color shows where you are with respect to your bright red line:

Green:
> 3 days of buffer

Blue:
~ 2 days of buffer

Orange:
~ 1 day of buffer

Red:
crossed the red line
Bright Red Line ?

Keep your dots on the good side of this bright red line!
Colored guiding lines ?

The orange line shows one day of safety buffer. The blue line is two days, and the green line demarcates seven days of safety buffer.

(If you keep your safety buffer at 7 days or higher then you're immune to being stung. If anything comes up, just flatten your bright red line. It will take effect after the 7-day akrasia horizon but since you have that much safety buffer, you're golden!)
Yellow guide lines ?

These thin yellow lines indicate the good side of the bright red line.
Akrasia horizon ?

This line is a week away from now. You can only make changes in the steepness of your red line beyond the akrasia horizon.
Pink zone ?

This shaded pink zone on the wrong side of your bright line shows the bare minimum that you are committed to doing this week. Your red line can never get easier and dip into this forbidden zone.
Infinitely safe region ?

This light yellow shaded region shows the infinitely safe area. If your datapoints are in this zone, then you have exceeded the final total of your graph, and your safety buffer is unbounded. You usually see this as your goal approaches the end date, or if you have an infinitely flat bright red line for some reason.
Skull & Crossbones ?

We fly the Jolly Roger on your graph if it freezes. The primary way this happens is if you derail when your graph is scheduled to be archived.
Watermarks ?

The watermarks in the corner regions of your graph (shown darker here) indicate your current pledge amount and how much safety buffer you have. How safe you are is shown on the good side of the red line, and the amount pledged is shown on the derails-this-way side.

Features not enabled on this graph:

Optimistic projection (deprecated) ?

An optimistic view of progress, i.e., a view of your data through rose-colored glasses. It shows your inexorable march towards your goal. If you're bouncing around it just shows you flat. When you go down (or whichever direction your goal is), it shows you that right away.

It never shows you going up (or whatever the wrong direction is) unless it's sure you've screwed up.

If you find the random fluctuation unnerving, you can focus on the pink dots day-to-day.
Moving average ?

This is a moving average implemented as an IIR filter. If most of your daily numbers are below this trend line then you are inexorably dragging it down.

For the case of weight loss, this was inspired by The Hacker's Diet as a way to see the forest through the trees, to see past the daily random fluctuations to what your weight is really doing.
Smoothed trend swath ?

Think of this as a very thick line charting your progress or an aura around your actual data. It's like the moving average line but fatter and smoother, and it extends past your actual data as a kind of projection into the future, in case that's useful. (Gory details on the blog.)
Max flux ?

This thicker yellow line denotes the user-specified maximum daily fluctuation, shown as an offset from the bright red line. Details in the FAQ.
Standard flux ?

This dashed yellow line indicates a so-called 90% variance derived from your data, shown as an offset from the bright red line. Details in the FAQ.

This goal has the following fine print specified by angrymartian:

❗ PURPOSE
This goal tracks the number of social events and activities I do each week. I must do at least one event each week.
📊 DATA
1 point = I went to an event and provided sufficient proof to Boss as a Service, and the event meets all of the requirements
0.5 points = I went to an event and provided sufficient proof to Boss as a Service, and requirement #5 applies.
-1 point = I did not go to an event or did not provide sufficient proof to Boss as a Service
⛔ REQUIREMENTS
(1) Before doing a social activity, I must inform my Boss of the activity. To inform my Boss, I have to send a screenshot or other confirmation of the event. The confirmation must contain a description of the social event, and the date and time when it will occur. Examples of acceptable confirmation includes a screenshot from Meetup.com confirming that I am RSVP-ed for an event, a text message where I confirm the details with my friend, and the like. I am allowed to black out or blur out sensitive information.
(2) While doing the activity, I must send proof to my Boss that I am doing the activity. The proof must involve photographic evidence and must clearly show me doing the activity. For example, if the activity is a hike in the woods, a picture of me and my friends in the woods doing the hike is acceptable, but a generic picture of the woods is not, since there's no actual evidence that I'm doing the activity. I am allowed to black out or blur out sensitive information such as people's faces, but not any other details.
(3) Proof of completion of an activity must be submitted through Telegram on or before 11:59 PM Pacific Time (UTC-8) on the day of the activity.
(4) In determining whether proof was submitted in time, BaaS may consider all available evidence, such as the timestamp of the message on Telegram, and the data within the photo
(5) Activities which involve going to a restaurant or bar, or which primarily involve drinking alcohol, will be considered "low effort," and I will receive only 0.5 points for these activities, instead of 1 point. Whether an activity qualifies as "low effort" is up to my Boss. My Boss' decision is final and I give up any right to contest it or appeal it.
(6) If I do not do any activity for the week, my Boss must DEDUCT one point (-1 points.) This means my score decreases. My Boss must deduct the point even if it will cause me to derail, and have to pay money to Beeminder.
(7) Once I accumulate 5 "points" of safety buffer, I am not allowed to accumulate any more, and must retro-ratchet the safety buffer back down to 2 points. My Boss must make sure I do this. The point of this rule is to ensure that I cannot just do a bunch of activities all at once, and then try to coast.
(8) Things I do at work, such as lunches with colleagues, do not count as social activities for the purpose of this goal.
✅ EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES
(1) A derailment caused by a Telegram service outage qualifies as an extenuating circumstance if I can point to a source that corroborates the outage
(2) A derailment caused by an emergency qualifies as an extenuating circumstance, so long as I can provide sufficiently strong proof. What counts as an emergency, and sufficiently strong proof of that emergency, is at the sole discretion of BaaS.

Amounts Due By Day

Goal Progress

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