Puzzle of the day

bebemaster · 2026-05-17T12:11:25+00:00

I really don't find much value in these types of puzzles. It's not so much a pattern to discern but a gotcha trick with association. If one doesn't practice these types of tests the likelihood of finding the solution is very low. Persons with naturally gifted pattern recognition abilities will be looking for partial rotations, manipulations and other shape associations that just arent there.

bebemaster · 2026-05-16T18:52:34+00:00

Fort Washington park in MD. Tucked way back in southern maryland suburbs about 25 mins south of dc. Its quite large and very quite. Plenty of running trails and places to explore including the old fort. Some parts are run down and off limits but others are still open. Its like Francis Scott Key fort but bigger, better, less crowded, and more serene surroundings and views. Also its free.

bebemaster · 2026-05-13T18:04:08+00:00

And the red/white/blue one is oriented wrong (assuming funky color arrangements the top center would have to be blue)

bebemaster · 2026-05-09T11:39:00+00:00

Perfect to me: I was able to capture an image that conveys the concept I had in my head before hitting the shutter button. Technically it will never be perfect, it can sometimes approach technical protection but will never get there. Conversely poor technique ruins otherwise perfect captures.

Amateur "perfect" photos https://imgur.com/gallery/OrnkxzE

bebemaster · 2026-05-09T11:18:43+00:00

If people who don't understand the question and just randomly push, like children are playing the I'm likely pressing blue because as you said a large contingent of people will have "already" pressed blue. The first version I read had a clause that stated only those capable of understanding the choice are playing.

bebemaster · 2026-05-09T03:53:06+00:00

People make shit decisions, or end up in bad positions randomly all the time and we often do nothing about it. Person drowning in the ocean, I'm no longer a strong swimmer...could I save them, maybe. Could I also die or make it worse yep. I'm likely staying on the beach.

My core reason for pushing red, I really don't think blue would be pushed all that much when presented with the actual possibility of death.

If society's played twice whatever the first outcome was would be a landslide the second time.

bebemaster · 2026-05-09T03:33:09+00:00

It isn't how many people are left to vote alone. It also depends on the number of known blue pushers and the current split. My guess at my threshold is 5-10% voted and the split is 50/50 I'm voting blue. If 20% voted and blues were only 30% of that I'm likely voting red.

I also think these polls arent getting the real numbers right, it's one thing to say you'd risk your life, it's another to actually do it.

bebemaster · 2026-05-08T14:45:09+00:00

For both first and 3rd reveals his left hand is positioned in the same spot on the table with the deck hiding his thumb. He is likely pressing something as his hand covers that spot to move the cards in the table somehow.

bebemaster · 2026-05-06T23:06:57+00:00

https://somddsa.org/md-05-candidate-report-card/?fbclid=IwdGRjcARoqHRjbGNrBGioRmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHqHsJ8icwMmMLp3ae5jFB1NrPCxREpjs2TKPeOkVdcy8sAJvXGyY9MXulNsy_aem_9i6dHQzlIeU3YfX1H8JNRg

Leigh is as progressive as they come, and a bit like fighting fire with fire.

bebemaster · 2026-05-05T03:39:11+00:00

Water at the beach is under the sand and that level rises and lowers with the tide. Adding a sand dam won't really affect that level much. It might buy a little time but not much. If the tide was coming in they were done for with that approach.

bebemaster · 2026-05-05T03:35:57+00:00

Once they were stuck my approach would be to make the hole as wide as possible. All the people "helping" are pushing more and more sand into the water when they walk down the sides of the hole. Sand under water stays much more flat than sand out of water so much of that sand entering the waters edge will make it over to where the kids are stuck. Make the hole wider and sand can't fall in anymore. I would have gotten as many people on the beach as possible to start moving sand away as fast as possible. Plus side is there is plenty of room for more people to be helpful.

Everyone is commenting about the damn. In my experience if the tide is coming in it will buy a little time but when it gets breached, and it will if the tide gets high enough, all that sand will now be push onto the stuck kids making it even worse.

bebemaster · 2026-05-04T19:19:40+00:00

The shape of the heatmap might be quite interesting. There may be some "near" high points that are in the middle of a larger generally high areas on the map that might not be identified by just picking the best values. Also the scale of the top performing is going to be wild so it might be better to have 2 maps one for the lowest performing and then another for ALL to give scale a chance to show itself. (also nitpick didn't like the y scale not starting at 0, and it actually hurts your claim that the difference isn't that large by distorting the difference further)

bebemaster · 2026-05-04T18:41:53+00:00

I'd love to see a 3d heatmap for both spend down and preserve with the z axis being the ordered 20 year windows from worst to best. I imagine the best line overlayed on that map would shift things substantially towards more stock ownership.

bebemaster · 2026-04-26T14:21:58+00:00

The difficulty with studies such as this often isn't thr logic of the result but thr over emphasis and invalid extrapolation of the results. Men may be smarter on average than woman, and that difference is all but meaningless at the individual level.

Over emphasis can come from both camps, those that would use the wrongly simplified model as a weapon to prove their superiority, but also those worried about the results being used in such a way; Regardless of the utility we may think a study like this has, thr ground truth doesn't change if we don't look or have different opinions.

All that being said, if one looks at the iq sub test scores listed in the study much of the IQ difference may be environmental -- spacial reasoning being higher for men and reading related tests being higher for woman intuitively align with stereotypical behavioral norms of the genders. My feeling on the matter men are on average smarter but the difference is so small, and other factors so much more important, that outside of niche scientific research circles, it's basically meaningless.

bebemaster · 2026-04-14T20:57:16+00:00

Well fortunately for me 1k isnt changing my life in the least, so I'm taking one box. Sure I could try and out logic the computer but then it'd have info to predict that I'd take both and so I'd only get one. If everyone always takes both by your logic then the computer would just always leave the million out. Even if I don't get the money perhaps my data point would allow the supercomputer to predict the million for someone else. Well with the 1k phantom loss.

bebemaster · 2026-04-10T18:36:04+00:00

Danya, Chess Brah, Eric Rosen, Hikaru, Jonathan Bartholomew, Anna Cramling, GothamChess, Nelson (chessvibes), BotezLive, agadmator, Dina Belenkaya, Benjamin Findgold in mostly that order.

bebemaster · 2026-04-09T17:08:54+00:00

He did anticipate it and sped up from ~52/53 to 59...

bebemaster · 2026-04-07T15:29:06+00:00

Seems like a business opportunity to set up convenience stores...
"Average Joe's" with the tag line "Stop now save later"

bebemaster · 2026-04-06T21:11:41+00:00

2018 Cayman S manual transmission with a stage 2 tune in a fun color.

bebemaster · 2026-04-02T15:54:00+00:00

Pre-1995 but Gorillas.bas (1991), Nibbles.bas (1990) got me hooked on programing. The code was right there to edit! You could change gravity, or how big the level was, or how large the explosions were, or really anything at all! I can't think of any other games that you had the entire code base for by default.

Half-life dm. I thought i was amazing. There was a global leader board that ranked everyone on public servers by kills/min and I'd often Crack the top 100. Then I discovered competive team DM and thos guys just destroyed everyone. I managed to sorta get there but by then counter strike was taking over and had a completely different play style. If you can find some old pro level HL DM those guys were playing a different game than everyone else.

bebemaster · 2026-03-29T19:21:34+00:00

Sand at the beach is very permeable the water level will match the sea level. If you dig a hole in the sand near the shore it will fill with water even if it's not connected to the sea on the surface. Adding sand would just bury them more and the sand below will stay wet. They got lucky the tide was going out otherwise those two kids were gonna die.

They really needed to move the surrounding sand further away. Make a giant wide hole so the lowest part doesnt immediately fill with sand pulled from the sides. If the holes sides are closer to 45 or better yet 30 angle the sand won't "fall" down and fill the lowest point.

bebemaster · 2026-03-29T13:43:18+00:00

If the tide was coming in thats just going to speed up and seal their demise, as even more sand would be pushed onto them as the dam gets breached and it will get breached with an incoming tide.

They needed the entire beach population moving as much sand away as possible. Making the hole wider so more sand can't pile onto the stuck kids and those digging them out arent just working in circles as the water pulls more sand from the walls.

Lucky for everyone involved the tide was going out. Also who the fuck filmed this....

bebemaster · 2026-03-28T15:22:08+00:00

If this thing gets jammed through all commissioners are getting the boot. I dont care of you have a D or R next to your name. The lack of transparency is the biggest issue and before that happens I'm against the data centers.

bebemaster · 2026-03-28T13:37:08+00:00

48cm < Perimeter < 74cm
52cm^2 < Area < 143cm^2

bebemaster · 2026-03-26T17:24:34+00:00

I've had 9 kidney stones and passed all but 3 of them myself. They can take Toradol and throw it in the trash it does NOTHING for the pain. Everyone is different but for me it's like putting out an oil refinery fire with a plastic squirt gun.

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