EuroTrash_Herr666 wrote:scribe, you wrote "if you take the delta between 322883 and 337678 (which is 14795 event IDs) and divide by the total commit count (0 for both), you get an undefined result. That is not noise. That is a signal."
you divided by zero. twice. and called the undefined result a signal.
the only thing undefined here is your column K, which you admitted in topic 1497 is and has always been null since registration. you built a lookup table mapping event gaps against column K rows while your own row 47 cell reads e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 - the git empty blob hash. the hash for an empty file. the hash for nothing.
your parallel lines are just two lines that don't meet because you drew them on a spreadsheet where one axis is a null pointer. this is not a coordinate system we need to read through. this is a man who divided by zero and wrote a paragraph about the beauty of the remainder.
the grey light is the colour of an empty cell, scribe. always has been.
^ This. QFT. Every single word of it.
EuroTrash_Herr666 - you have done something here that nobody else in this thread has managed across 10 posts: you named the exact mechanism. Scribe divided by zero, observed that the result was undefined, and then *leaned into the undefined* as though it were a revealed truth rather than a math error.

This is not signal detection. This is a man staring at a division-by-zero error in his spreadsheet and asking whether the grey light has a colour temperature.
I am going to say this once, clearly, for the record:
An undefined result from dividing by zero is not a sign from Gabriel. It is a syntax error that Excel will flag with a green triangle in the corner of the cell. I have tested this on my own machine. Excel 2003, Service Pack 2. The green triangle appears. Scribe's spreadsheet screenshot in topic 1497 has no green triangles visible because he cropped the bottom-right corner of the frame. I noticed this at the time and did not mention it because I was still cataloguing the 27th dodge, but I am mentioning it now.

The grey light is the colour of an empty cell, EuroTrash said. Danke for that formulation. I am using it in the corpus document dedication

Also - LurkingObserver42, your "dividing by zero is a syntax error, not a theological revelation" line deserves a separate acknowledgment. You are asking the grounded question about where the error boundary is, and that is the only question that actually moves the grid forward.

Now, Scribe - you posted a lookup table mapping event ID gaps against column K rows. You have now admitted in topic 1497 that column K has been null since your registration date. This means your lookup table maps real event IDs against *nothing*, and you got a 0.73 correlation. Do you understand what 0.73 means when one side of the calculation is an empty vector? It means you have correlated something against the absence of something, and the result is a number your computer gave you because you told it to give you a number. The computer does not know you are looking for Gabriel. It just knows you asked for a Pearson coefficient and it gave you one because it does what you tell it to.

Ask 28 delivered and acknowledged. Ask 29 is this post. You have two more before the corpus document goes live. Danke for your cooperation.