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I'm curious on your response to GP's question. Have you heard of AHSME, AMC, or AIME?

Nobody mentioned them in high school (1997) until I heard of them online and got my school to participate. 30 kids took the AHSME. Only one qualified for the AIME. And nobody qualified for IMO (though I tell myself I was close).

I believe the 1 in a million number.


Never heard of those either. And I took the highest level math courses offered. The only competition I can remember is participating in is Academic Decathlon.


This. The inconsistency of foul calls. I understand the mentality of "if you're not cheating, you're not trying" and "if you're not flopping, you're not trying", but it ruins the game for me.

We should train ML to make the foul calls in real-time.

Then get rid of the strict rulebook definition of what a foul is. Have the fans vote on past plays, what should be a defensive/offensive/no foul. Then train the LLM based on the opinions and let it make the foul calls.


Flopping techs should be handed out like candy. They can be determined during commercials. I don't know a single fan who wouldn't love this. I'm curious why the NBA doesn't crack down more. I'm assuming it has something to do with internal politics, maybe with the star players.


The owners have ceded way too much power to the players.


Does anyone know of an open-source way to control these JuiceBox chargers?


This reminds me of a bug I created where the calendar showed only 30 days in March. I took the number of hours in the month, divided by 24, and rounded down.

The bigger problem was that I couldn't replicate it because I was in Arizona (which doesn't observe DST). Only users outside of Arizona were seeing the bug.


I was super happy with my Purism Librem 15 for 2 years. (Weird freezing issues after that. Replacing the memory didn't help. Maybe the mainboard went bad?)

Have been tempted to try the Librem 14.

I bought a Framework, but couldn't find the right distro to use it as a daily driver. Maybe I'll find time to try again.


Does anyone have a sleep/suspend configuration that isn't too difficult to configure and works well? I should update and try again, but as of 6 months ago, this was the one thing that made the Framework too painful for me to use as a daily driver.

I loved how power management just worked on the Librem 15 (until mine died).


Relevant search time might be "suspend to ram", which most distros apparently have disabled by default. This worked for me:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Framework_Laptop#Suspend


I bought a Librem 15 before the 14 existed. I was very happy with it (including battery life/suspend) for about a year and used it with Linux as my daily driver. Then hardware started to fail and now it freezes randomly. (I've replaced the memory. Must be the mainboard?)

Maybe I was unlucky. Also, the 14 may be more reliable.

After that, I almost bought a Librem 14, but I took a chance on the Framework. The only real problem is battery life/suspend, but it's annoying enough that I can't bring myself to use it as a daily driver.


Why the number goes backward?


Screen size. They had a 13 and 15.

Now they just sell their second-generation flagship, the 14.


A couple months ago, I tried to make a visualization video on Arrow's Theorem:

https://youtu.be/Uvax1Hj8t_E

I probably need to get my act together and do a final version of that video.

If you're into this, then feedback on that video would be helpful. (Or pull requests on the corresponding website...)

Edit: As mdp2021 said, you're welcome to go to the (poorly-documented) accompanying website https://hexagon.bettervoting.org/ and git repo https://github.com/abjennings/socialchoice-hexagons


Checking it; meanwhile, you may have also notified this public of the accompanying website you prepared... ;)

https://hexagon.bettervoting.org

I would suggest you add chapters (e.g. 14:59 → "Borda")


Here's how I did it by hand (assuming you can buy multiple of a given item):

Work in cents, modulo 87 (the cost of the cheapest item, the pinwheel).

The total we want is 4394 (or 44 mod 87). Write down the price of every item modulo 87.

The whistle is 98 (or 11 mod 87) so you can buy 4 whistles and make up the rest in pinwheels (46).

The dog is 457 (or 22 mod 87) so you can buy 2 dogs and make up the rest in pinwheels (40).

Lots of other combinations.

However, the paper doesn't seem to suggest that buying multiple is okay.

I'm glad others mentioned the dynamic programming solution. That one feels elegant. Should've thought of that.


Agree.

Also, you could do the following things which Voice doesn't support:

- Have multiple chats open (and be working on several responses) at the same time

- Star chats (nice workflow for remembering to respond later)

Although there were a couple things which, annoyingly, never worked right:

- Receiving contacts (vcards) from iOS.

- Starting a new group text (more than one recipient) from within Gmail. You could respond to an existing group text but to start a new one, I had to do it from the hangouts app on my phone.


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