How are canonical results chosen?

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br3achd
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15 Jun 2024 3:16:08 UTC
Topic 231214
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    New cruncher here and just curious as to how the canonical result is selected when all result are submitted and validated. I searched for it but couldn't find any good answers. All of my completed work unit submissions have been validated, but none have been the canonical result, so I figure it can't be random. 

     

    Edit: of course I immediately find an answer thread soon as I post this, lol. https://einsteinathome.org/content/canonical-result

    Tom M
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    Hmmm. A random canonical

    17 Jun 2024 17:20:46 UTC
    Message 226080
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      Hmmm. A random canonical result?

      Does that mean we can just run a random number generator and be done with crunching?

       

      ROFL 

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      br3achd
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      Haha, I was meaning moreso a

      19 Jun 2024 5:02:01 UTC
      Message 226130 in response to message 226080
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        I was being a little lighthearted and meaning moreso a situation like "hey these two results are the same" and then they flip a coin or similar to choose which one gets designated as canonical... not that the work of the underlying crunching itself is "random," lol.

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