I was just thinking about this. I know why the random selection exists, but I don’t know how it’s exactly coded. As more nodes come online, the odds of you getting randomly selected is naturally going to go down simply due to volume. Is there a way to set a finite amount of days without getting selected before it is automatically selected? Something like 45 days and then it is put into rotation at least once? Or, even on a sliding scale. Maybe it goes up 1 extra day every 100 or 500 nodes that come online? I was at 65 days, beat my own record, and then had two others immediately beat me. Or, are we way past the point to tweak the selection process?
Can the Random Node Selection Have a Finite Waiting Period?
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Maybe I am wrong, but setting a limit like that makes the selection predictable, which is what the random selection was supposed to prevent.
Rotate more than the currently 4 nodes per epoch would make the odds slightly better.
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There are pseudo RNGs like sobol that incorporate memory based functions, so the same number getting selected twice goes down… I used this is some of my simulation work to ensure I was getting a random selection of surface sites, but also ensuring the surface was fully selected at some point. So I imagine something like this is feasible, but I dont know how easily a sobol rng can be incorporated into node selection, as I am sure there are many things about the rng and selection process that have to be considered.
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