Canonical URL: mind.tagti.me currently pointing to tminder.glitch.me
TagTime Minder, or Tminder, is a utility that tells you the probability that you'll get your requisite number of emergency TagTime pings by your Beeminder deadline.
TagTime pings you according to a Poisson distribution. That means that the length of the gaps between pings has an exponential distribution. It's true. Look it up! Another fun fact: The sum of n exponential random variables, each with rate parameter a, has gamma distribution with shape parameter n and scale parameter 1/a.
That means that if you need n pings we know the probability distribution on the amount of time it will take to get them all.
So if you specify the number of pings (or hours, which we can translate to a number of pings -- like if you need 1 hour's worth of pings and your ping gap is 45 minutes then you need 2 pings) and your deadline then we can compute the probability that you'll get that many pings in that amount of time.
Going the other way -- like how much time do you need to get the risk of failure below, say, 1%? -- is also possible. There's a function in math.js to compute that but it's not included in the UI currently.
It understands arithmetic, so you can ask what are the chances of getting,
say, 3 pings by midnight if you start at 6:15pm.
That's 3*:45 hours' worth by +(24-18:15)h (the answer is 98%).
This is explained in index.html, i.e., the "What's going on?" section of the front page of this app.
This is hosted on Glitch but it's all strictly client-side javascript.
- 2013.12.13 dreeves writes original Meteor version at tminder.meteor.com
- 2014-2015 A bunch of commits at github.com/dreeves/tminder
- 2017.01.27 Alexander et al of ARGH! Team helped port from Meteor to Gomix
- 2017.01.31 dreeves ported from coffeescript to javascript
- 2017.01.31 Bethany Soule added css to make the layout nicer
- 2017.02.01 Fedor of ARGH! Team made it mobile-friendly
- 2017.02.06 dreeves refactors like mad trying to understand React
- 2017.02.07 Accepts arithmetical expressions for time-of-day
- 2017.02.10 Bugfixes and tweaks
- 2017.02.13 More robust parsing
- 2017.02.14 Tweaks and polish and refactoring
- 2017.02.15 Consistently treat blank fields as 0 hours and midnight, resp.
- 2017.02.16 The code is kinda elegant now and React is super nifty
- 2017.02.17 Fixed bug w/ parsing "12am-1h" (yielded negative time not 11pm)
- 2017.02.24 Make deadline time auto-refresh for relative deadlines
- 2017.03.23 Bugfix: parsed eg "8pm - 7h30m" as "8pm - 7h + 30m"
- 2017.04.12 Bugfixes: failed to parse "11:30pm" or "1 pm"
- 2017.04.12 Mini test suite for parsing times of day
- 2017.04.13 Bugfix of last bugfix and improved test suite
- 2017.06.08 Bugfix for case of more than 200 pings needed
- 2018.01.11 Stripped out the Node.js parts; pure clientside now
- 2018.01.11 Added 95% and 98% confidence intervals to the table
- 2018.01.13 Added confidence intervals up top too based on probability
- 2018.04.06 Bugfix in genTOD(), renamed pgtime to hmsparsafore
- 2018.04.06 Robustified, refactored the H.M.S. Parsafore
- 2018.04.07 Bugfix: parse "8 p.m."
- 2018.04.09 Bugfix: parse "03pm"
- 2018.04.14 Tiny improvements to the H.M.S. Parsafore
- 2019.05.15 Prettier display of things like "1h 30m"