# Questions about stochastic time tracking

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/questions-about-stochastic-time-tracking/6559>\
**Category:** Akrasia\
**Created:** [April 9, 2020, 12:45pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/questions-about-stochastic-time-tracking/6559 "2020-04-09T12:45:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/questions-about-stochastic-time-tracking/6559/23 "2020-04-11T17:21:31Z")

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@zedmango’s exactly right, as was your first instinct to implement it by having a 10% probability of a ping every 5 minutes (other than the small loophole where you can slack off in the 5 minute window following each ping). The [official implementation](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/official-reference-implementation-of-the-tagtime-universal-ping-schedule/4282) is equivalent to that same algorithm, just doing that literally every second instead of every 5 minutes.

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