I aborted it to mark it, but I know this is the same task because I took a picture of it last week and stuck it in the “Gallery of Amusements” – the “neuron rampant”. We shouldn’t be getting the same task.
Good memory.
You definitely aren’t supposed to be getting the same task multiple times. We checked, and in this case you were assigned a very old task. The task was initially created when our task-spawning script was less sensitive to detecting duplicates. This task is almost identical to one you were assigned a week ago, because back when these tasks were made the spawning-script didn’t recognize them as duplicates.
In general this should not happen, except for archaic cases like this (until we clean up old tasks).
Hmm, I got this same task again today. I see now that each task is the same, except rotated. The point being that the algorithm apparently still doesn’t recognize these as the same tasks – unless the “tasks done” database was deleted between 4/4 and today?
Got another duplicate, this time I think it’s from the new Cell 7.
Hmm, I got this same task again today. I see now that each task is the same, except rotated. The point being that the algorithm apparently still doesn't recognize these as the same tasks -- unless the "tasks done" database was deleted between 4/4 and today?
There were 3 identical tasks with different task ID. As Mark explained, they were born in the babyhood of EyeWire, so please excuse us on them.
Got another duplicate, this time I think it's from the new Cell 7.
On the other hand this can't be true. There's only one task for cell 7 by now (we will soon have more, after the task spawning bug fixes), and we have only one record for you. I guess this could be confused with some of the previous tasks in cell 5 or 6, because of the self-touch in the upper left side.
Possibly it wasn’t cell 7. I know that recently I’ve been getting fatter dendrites, and I thought this might be because I’d exhausted the tasks in the other cells…
We have a few more instances (other than the triple-fold case we discussed above) that identical tasks are stored under different task IDs.
Also, you are right on the fatter dendrites. You first joined when we were working on the thinner part of cell 5, and have been exhausting all the tasks since then including the tasks for cell 6. And now you are sent back to the beginning and fatter parts of cell 5, for which we have the duplicate tasks.
I seem to have gotten several identical tasks this afternoon. I think I’m on the 4th one (at least) now… hasn’t happened before as far as I know.
argh… that must be an aftermath of the cell body tasks pandemonium. Let me clean them up as I find them.