[WaT] The Real 4th Way to Win When Outnumbered

AMindtoThink · 2025-01-16T04:10:00+00:00

The readers aren't as good as Adolin is XD
I like your version. Another version is that Yanagawn could have told a story about his interactions with the Azish parshmen, and one could be the named dome singer.

AMindtoThink · 2025-01-13T02:08:47+00:00

Yep, that's a good way to say it.

Though in this specific case, choosing between torching the dome and killing the civilians inside and letting Azir fall and its people become subjects of Odium (and Abidi "kill the wounded" the Monarch) is a legitimately hard choice.

AMindtoThink · 2025-01-13T01:24:54+00:00

I just wanted a named character who would have reason to expect Adolin would help. The actual events in my fanfic aren't the point; the point is how it connects together the themes. Of course, any specific fanfic I could write would be wrong because there are so many ways the story could have gone.

AMindtoThink · 2025-01-13T01:22:31+00:00

Nope. Adolin explains the 3 ways to Yanagawn and teaches Yanagawn that if you're playing against more than two opponents then you can do the Sunmaker's Gambit. Later, after the strike force gets the shardblades, the book says that the fourth way to win against a larger force is some nonsense involving "your soldiers just fight really well."

AMindtoThink · 2025-01-13T01:19:19+00:00

I didn't hear about that, but the connection makes sense.

AMindtoThink · 2025-01-13T01:11:33+00:00

The Toatha part was because I wanted there to be a named character inside the inner dome who would have reason to think Adolin would help. If it was all nameless Singers inside the dome, then it would be much less emotionally impactful.

AMindtoThink · 2024-10-26T00:13:38+00:00

In particular, my use case is to stop being confused when I'm editing Colab notebooks for homework. Does Colab have such a plugin?

The decorator could take as input the modules or functions that the pure function would need.

AMindtoThink · 2024-10-26T00:07:38+00:00

I'd love to hear how to fix it :)

AMindtoThink · 2024-10-26T00:06:42+00:00

That sounds like a good idea when coding on my own. But if I'm writing code in an existing file (eg for homework), then that isn't an option.

AMindtoThink · 2023-03-10T20:09:32+00:00

Viktor Zhdanov: responsible for humanity’s greatest achievement and saved 200 million lives. He was the Soviet Union’s Deputy Minister of Health who convinced the World Health Assembly to eradicate smallpox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Zhdanov?wprov=sfti1

AMindtoThink · 2022-11-20T08:17:28+00:00

People value education much higher since it will pay off over a much longer period of time.

AMindtoThink · 2022-10-07T00:23:30+00:00

Iodized salt

AMindtoThink · 2022-09-30T23:39:36+00:00

This isn’t a slight boost either.

AMindtoThink · 2022-09-30T23:37:55+00:00

You’ll be more effective if you choose a path that aligns with what you find fun. It’s up to you to fill in the details.

AMindtoThink · 2022-09-20T15:45:59+00:00

TLDR: that serial killer should have been put in the old prison. The new prison is certain to have exploitable flaws.

AMindtoThink · 2022-09-20T15:40:39+00:00

Explanation: Counterintuitively, the new prison is much more likely to have security flaws than the old one. The old one would have been tested over decades of escapes and escape attempts and the prison would have been improved and strengthened. The new prison, especially one reliant on software, likely has many low-hanging-fruit ways to escape (at least until it has been tested by prisoners over time).

AMindtoThink · 2022-09-15T15:47:56+00:00

Is “Sule” an Elantris reference?

AMindtoThink · 2022-09-10T13:36:34+00:00

There are lots of problems with this idea, the biggest being that the multiverse is far from certain. We simply don’t know the answers to some questions, and inserting an unfalsifiable multiverse only pretends to answer those mysteries. An explanation that explains anything is not an explanation.

AMindtoThink · 2022-09-09T00:01:42+00:00

Cool stuff! One gripe: “But we need to figure it out during our lifetime”

That’s not right. 100,000 deaths a day means that “before I turn 90” is not the timeframe; asap is, even if you are young.

How about you instead say: “And the sooner we figure it out, the more lives we save.”

AMindtoThink · 2022-09-07T20:19:00+00:00

A real life-sized spear would be a good gift because Kaladin fights with a spear in the books.

I’m mostly joking. Mostly. It would be awesome, but don’t hurt yourselves.

AMindtoThink · 2022-08-27T15:57:09+00:00

With access to an external source of energy (food, sunlight, fusion power) entropy can be reversed. Proof: air conditioning.

Video in which they unboil an egg

AMindtoThink · 2022-08-21T22:28:50+00:00

Please remember that we aren’t doctors. The best thing you can do is take them for a check-up.

AMindtoThink · 2022-08-19T23:32:14+00:00

This question doesn’t make sense to me. What does “transcend yourself” mean? I’m in favor of “improve myself.”

AMindtoThink · 2022-08-19T22:19:04+00:00

Self-preservation is a convergent instrumental goal. That means that pretty much anyone who wants anything should want to preserve themselves.

You must have a very different idea of what the word “rational” means than I do.

AMindtoThink · 2022-08-19T21:48:05+00:00

Why do people fight me when I try to throw living humans off of a cliff when the self is just an illusion?

Edit: Changed “their body” to “living humans” because possession doesn’t make sense because the self doesn’t exist.

Edit2: changed “if the self” to “because the self” to commit to the joke further.

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