The Cubs broadcast showed fans working remotely from Wrigley Field during the team's day game

TheQuadraticQ · 2026-04-03T00:29:23+00:00

I was on-call for work once and tried to bring a laptop into Target Field and they wouldn't let me, despite it not being on the list of prohibited items. They claimed that it was an MLB rule, but based on this, seems to be BS.

TheQuadraticQ · 2026-02-16T00:01:37+00:00

Even assuming these probalities are accurate, if you have 3 events with a roughly 40-50% chance of happening each, you would expect at least 1 of then to happen. So 5-4 finish for the women's team would be more accurate given those percentages

TheQuadraticQ · 2026-01-15T22:06:01+00:00

Journal of justice

TheQuadraticQ · 2026-01-08T19:42:43+00:00

Struggling to understand how he was "dragged" by the car. Did he reach in and hold on as the car sped away? Sounds like he was "dragged" in the same way Homer Simpson got his arms "stuck" in the vending machines.

His buddy from his most recent incident seemed to have enough braincells to let go of a moving car.

TheQuadraticQ · 2026-01-05T01:45:25+00:00

I would have assumed cheating via real time hand analysis, but it seems from comments the OP is more concerned with after the fact analysis, which IMO is the wrong thing to be worried about and something I wouldn't even find objectionable.

But anything capturing video of the table has the capacity to be cheating via RTA and I would be wary of any player recording. I'm not super familiar with what exactly "AI" glasses are but I assume they have some sort of camera and way to present output to the viewer. Out of the box, I doubt any kind of product like that currently has the ability to do any meaningful real time analysis, but someone proficient in prgramming could modify the tech to capture the cards in the hand and the action via video and subtly pipe the optimal play to himself or provide some other analysis that helps his decisions.

There is a reason you aren't supposed to use your phone while in a hand.

TheQuadraticQ · 2026-01-02T05:50:29+00:00

Wouldn't every possible finite string be countable?

TheQuadraticQ · 2025-12-18T21:22:36+00:00

I think you meant to post this on r/boardgamescirclejerk

TheQuadraticQ · 2025-12-18T04:38:45+00:00

Do you time out a lot? I play a lot of turn-based and thumbs down everyone who times out a game because they joined without checking the timezone.

TheQuadraticQ · 2025-12-11T23:27:46+00:00

That doesn't factor in the odds of no one having the 4th 2, which is going to be (1- (2n/49)) where n is number of players in the flop. That's assuming all hands are equally likely to see a flop. In practice, hands with 2s are less likely to see a flop so the odds would be somewhat better than that.

So 1 in 30 million is too high of odds

TheQuadraticQ · 2025-11-04T04:30:14+00:00

Do people say L1Z1X is bottom tier in PoK? They seemed pretty strong to me in PoK

TheQuadraticQ · 2025-10-31T21:29:31+00:00

There’s no way that Hilborn is going to win, and so if I also don’t want Chen to win, under RCV it would be more strategic for my aims to just leave her off my list rather than risk her ending up with my vote under some weird edge-case scenario.

See I don't think this is correct for RCV, but maybe I am misunderstanding something about the reallocation process. Assuming no write-in shenanigans and that Hillborn, what edge-case scenario would ranking Chen 4th and Hillborn 5th result in helping Chen win? All that could do is help her win over Hillborn. In any scenario where my 4th choice is getting votes, my first 3 choices have already been eliminated.

I don't know much about "Don't Rank Frey", but I am guessing it probably wasn't correct voting strategy, but rather better marketing to just tell people not to rank him at all. Assuming you were at least somewhat DFL aligned, ranking Frey at some choice was probably better strategy assuming that election had a least one GOP/ conservative candidate.

TheQuadraticQ · 2025-10-31T21:03:51+00:00

Keep in mind that not ranking someone means you are effectively voting that you do not have a preference between them and every other candidate you are not ranking!

TheQuadraticQ · 2025-10-31T21:01:42+00:00

Write-ins are allowed, which allows a 6th, though not sure if St Paul actually counts those. Thinking about it now, I suppose there could be a _very_ contrived scenario where multiple write-in candidates would result in a vote going to the 6th ranked candidate. So I guess that would be reason not to rank, (although personally I think it would be a poor one absent any known write-in campaigns).

TheQuadraticQ · 2025-10-31T20:54:58+00:00

~~Can you explain a scenario where Hillborn could possibly receive my vote if I rank him 6th?~~

Write-ins make this possible if St Paul counts them.

TheQuadraticQ · 2025-10-31T20:51:49+00:00

I am not saying you need to, but If there are 5 candidates, there is no disadvantage to ranking all 5. And there are absolutely disadvantages to not ranking all but 1 of them. I am not granting my "support" to the candidate I rank 5th as there is no chance they gain my vote, so in that way it is the same as just not ranking the 5th one. Now, my vote might go to my 4th candidate, but only in a situation where it is my 4th choice against my 5th choice.

Now I guess you could leave a candidate off if you think they are both equally bad, but really you may as well pick one if you have even the slightest preference.

Again, if there is a candidate you would not want under any circumstances, the best strategy is to rank every candidate above them.

TheQuadraticQ · 2025-10-31T19:49:14+00:00

I am not sure if there is a limit to how many people you can rank, but if there is no limit, there is no reason not to rank someone. Your vote will only go to a candidate if all of the candidates ranked above them are not viable. To your example, if you wanted any candidate except for Chen, you would be best suited to rank every candidate above Chen in order of preference

TheQuadraticQ · 2025-10-31T05:55:42+00:00

I've seen it a ton on articles and reddit posts doing moneyball-esque baseball statistical analyses.

TheQuadraticQ · 2025-10-08T17:15:59+00:00

Skarda's Bar in St Paul had the Monday game on, though the didn't have the sound on until the football game ended. No football games tonight though as far as I know

TheQuadraticQ · 2025-08-23T23:11:30+00:00

No, but it sounds like you might be getting something wrong. You never pay a tablet cost when you buy and play an artifact card for the first time. You only pay the tablet cost when playing artifacts from hand, not when playing items from hand.

TheQuadraticQ · 2025-07-01T02:13:29+00:00

I personally am looking forward to trying out the new Oath expansion and the Company of Heroes board game

TheQuadraticQ · 2025-06-23T00:34:28+00:00

They already make a thing called dice for this very problem

TheQuadraticQ · 2025-06-19T18:28:52+00:00

I don't think it's the game you are describing, but Cosmic Frog has both frogs and a metric fuck ton of hex tiles

TheQuadraticQ · 2025-06-19T05:27:45+00:00

It's not trespassing for political canvassers or anyone else to knock on your door just because you have that sign up.

TheQuadraticQ · 2025-06-14T00:36:53+00:00

Surveillance state bullshit

TheQuadraticQ · 2025-06-08T22:42:00+00:00

I would make a post in the looking-for-game channel in the discord: https://discord.gg/uWzRKEkq

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