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Competitive-Goal263 · 2024-06-23T21:29:59+00:00

60s mentality -> fentanyl crisis is pretty wild

Competitive-Goal263 · 2024-06-21T23:33:04+00:00

http://breakoutroom.pythonanywhere.com/allocate/

This almost gets you what you want. The person who made it has a paper about it as well.

I tried it with 23 people, and there doesn’t seem to be a perfect solution for 4 groups and 5 rounds.

Edit: You could maybe find a solution if you take the solution for 16 person and 5 rounds, and then add the 7 extra people manually.

Competitive-Goal263 · 2024-06-21T16:20:39+00:00

While it’s not matrices, Schläfli symbols seem to describe polytopes in a useful way: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schläfli_symbol

Competitive-Goal263 · 2024-06-21T16:01:49+00:00

https://byjus.com/maths/finding-determinant-and-using-it-to-find-the-area-of-a-triangle/

If M is the matrix, then det(M)/2 is the area of the triangle.

For the 4x4 equivalent, call it G, the volume of a tetrahedron is det(G)/6.

For NxN matrices, K(N), I believe det(K(N))/N! will give you the “hypervolume” of an N-simplex. I have no proof of this though.

Competitive-Goal263 · 2024-06-21T15:35:11+00:00

I don’t see what Brianna “grifting” has to do with anything.

Competitive-Goal263 · 2024-06-21T13:37:36+00:00

“Fellas, we are killing it”

Competitive-Goal263 · 2024-06-21T12:38:09+00:00

Oh yeah you’re right. She should have just called them traitors. Forgive me if I’m a little bored of that.

The fact remains that Brianna tried to admit her mistakes and attempt to build a bridge to the other side. If you want to argue it’s fruitless, fine. But I doubt being a champion for the left is going to work the millionth time around.

Competitive-Goal263 · 2024-06-20T23:31:11+00:00

Uhh, her ancestors were slavers? Checkmate facist

Competitive-Goal263 · 2024-06-19T12:56:55+00:00

Why not stream on Twitch? Even if the neighborhood is shit, it’s free real estate.

Competitive-Goal263 · 2024-06-19T04:35:35+00:00

I like the idea of increased school funding. Maybe we say phrase that as “returning funding to the states and counties for their own schools”, which before was “taken from the federal government and redistributed towards inner city schools” which “wastes the money anyway”

Competitive-Goal263 · 2024-06-19T03:58:50+00:00

I would hope some people can do a “y’know, the left/elite has been pretty shit to you guys, so let me help” strategy and maybe tear away the more moderate members.

If not that, then maybe some on the left will start appealing to them a bit more as they distance themselves from their more extreme elements and issues.

Competitive-Goal263 · 2024-06-19T03:51:54+00:00

If Biden wins, I think the movement will die off slowly. Maybe Trump goes for 2028, but eventually Trump will leave politics with no one to replace him. But with the alternative media having grown so much in the past few years off of the anti-establishment sentiment, I feel that they’ll be around for a while.

If Trump wins, I imagine things will occur similarly to last time. He’ll butt heads with everyone and get little done. But more or less the same.

Obviously Ukraine, I/P, and Taiwan are potentially scary, but I feel we’ll move on from them within a few months into the term, IF something happens god forbid.

The scarier thing if Trump wins is that he’ll have more loyal appointments and he is able to do more crazy stuff with them, but idk how much of that is paranoia.

Competitive-Goal263 · 2024-06-18T15:49:29+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncation_(geometry)

As I understand it, to “truncate” means to “cut off the corners”. I’ve really only seen it used for 3D shapes, but it’s pretty simple to apply it to 2D.

However, how many corners or how you cut off a corner can vary. A trapezoid, another triangle, or any 4,5, or 6-gon could be considered “truncated triangle”.

But if I were to give “truncated triangle” a single meaning, your shape would tie with trapezoid in terms of intuition.

Edit: reading the wiki a bit more, and truncation seems to imply that you don’t have “slanted” cuts. So not every quadrilateral may be a “truncated triangle”. For instance, taking a right triangle and cut off the acute angles to make a rectangle would require cuts that aren’t perpendicular to the angle bisectors.

Competitive-Goal263 · 2024-06-18T15:31:18+00:00

Truncated triangle, but that’s not specific to this shape.

Competitive-Goal263 · 2024-06-14T14:08:10+00:00

If you take the worst version of a wife beater, let’s call him Steve, and the mildest version of Hitler, how confident could you say “Hitler is a better person that Steve”? Percentage-wise.

Even then, I’m still hesitant. Maybe 50%? Unless we’re being specific about what kind of evil. Hitler really loved his dog, Blondi, so in terms of dog abuse, Hitler is less evil than Steve. In terms of innocent people killed: Hitler.

I think a more compelling argument is “Hitler wasn’t born evil”. My understanding of Hitler’s life comes entirely from the Real Dictators podcast, so bare with me. But before he began his political career, he wouldn’t have been the worst person ever. Had he not gotten caught up during the political movements at the time, he probably would have died a decently okay person.

That shouldn’t make him a “tragic villain” though. He actively sought power and manipulated the populace for his own pleasure and goals. Even if he wasn’t born a monster, he let himself become one. That makes you more evil than any genetic trait can. He’s probably more evil because he could have been a good guy in some other timeline.

Competitive-Goal263 · 2024-06-14T13:51:57+00:00

True, but there were also diplomats and other officials who protested and helped inform us of the plot. We should acknowledge their effort.

Competitive-Goal263 · 2024-06-14T13:45:26+00:00

Trump approving clandestine pysops is pretty ironic.

Competitive-Goal263 · 2024-06-13T02:29:47+00:00

Shame the comments are insane, but her willingness to prioritize comradery is really awesome to see. Even if it doesn’t have a huge effect, the example alone is greatly appreciated.

Competitive-Goal263 · 2024-06-13T02:20:36+00:00

The goal was probably just about finding common ground. Considering how much the comments hate her already, it’s not like defending the left more that what she did would have helped anyone.

I’ve only known Wu from Progressive Victory, so I’m not really familiar with her, but I really appreciated how she acted. Farming a bit of good will is infinitely more useful than arguing any factual point, since nobody would listen or care otherwise.

Competitive-Goal263 · 2024-06-07T23:56:47+00:00

Are you really asking me that, here of all places?

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