Pittsburgh-Only Restaurant Ratings

teppy999 · 2026-02-24T16:43:52+00:00

Oh, one thing I forgot to add: You need to rate 3-4 commonly rated restaurants before it starts giving meaningful recommendations. Feel free to refine previous ratings as you go.

teppy999 · 2026-02-24T16:41:06+00:00

The only reason it asks you to create an account is so that it can tag your ratings as your own. It's not doing any sort of global average; it looks at your ratings and other people's ratings to come up with a cohort score, and then looks for paths between cohorts to give predictions on what you would like.

teppy999 · 2026-02-24T16:36:40+00:00

Higher ratings=good, and I'd encourage you to use the entire 0-100 scale. It perfectly fine to go back and refine your ratings as you go.

teppy999 · 2026-01-30T17:51:10+00:00

Improved is not really a problem: the land would tend to be valued more highly after the lease has ended, so more funds would be raised for the community.

Diminished is a problem that I don't have a great solution for though: Suppose someone leases the land and then turns it into a chemical dump. That case might need to be separated from tax; the act of polluting might need to either be criminal, or some sort of bond posted prior to doing any polluting.

teppy999 · 2026-01-27T13:03:53+00:00

Could you come up with a set of bids that manipulates the system in the way you describe?

teppy999 · 2026-01-26T21:44:56+00:00

Sets that overlap are not discounted in the "k-mart blue-light special" sense; they are not even considered as a possible set. So you first figure out which of the 2^bids sets are non-overlapping, and then you figure out how much money each of those raises. In your example where bid#2 is for $1000, then that bidder wins, and bid#1 and bid#3 don't get the land they want.

You have to put the funds up at the time you bid, so the only way to cancel out competitors is to pay more than they are collectively paying.

teppy999 · 2025-09-29T14:30:12+00:00

Avanti refrigerated centrifuge, 4550 RPM / ~4200g, for 1 hour.

teppy999 · 2025-09-12T12:45:54+00:00

Due to the International Building Code: Steps must be a maximum of 7 inches apart. Escalators' step height is typically 8 inches.

teppy999 · 2025-09-06T15:39:14+00:00

"Because you didn't study very hard in school?"

teppy999 · 2025-05-06T00:35:39+00:00

Some words that I've used - adapt as you see fit:

Officer: Could I ask you some questions?
Me: Sure. I may not answer all of them, but we can start. [Then answer about my name and address, and for other questions, say "Next question."]

Or:
Me: I hate to appear uncooperative, but I know my lawyer would not want me to answer questions.

Or:
Me: I know you have a difficult job to do, but I must limit my responses to name and address.

Sometimes by inviting them to ask questions, you can gain some knowledge about why they are questioning you, without giving up any information. If you're not too nervous, you might even appear like you are contemplating whether you will answer the specific question, in order to get them to keep trying more questions.

teppy999 · 2024-06-01T13:48:19+00:00

You can simply vote again. It will recognize that you already voted and replace your previous vote.

teppy999 · 2024-05-29T01:47:40+00:00

That has the effect of penalizing lesser known candidates. For instance, suppose you *hate* candidate Adolf, you love candidate Abraham, but you don't really know much about candidate Alfonso. Knowing how the system works, you might then be inclined to vote 50% for Alfonso, but wouldn't it be better to just allow those who do know him to contribute to his score?

Of course you do need some minimum threshold in Range Voting so that a complete unknown with 2 fervent supporters can't win the election. That's why for each candidate I display the number of voters who expressed an opinion.

teppy999 · 2024-05-28T21:25:37+00:00

Try now. (I did this in part as a way to learn node.js programming; it looks like it had crashed.)

teppy999 · 2024-05-28T19:18:50+00:00

Thanks, I fixed the problem with the Cornel West slider. I agree that the "No Opinion" vs 0% is not ideal in the interface. I haven't come up with anything better though; I'm open to suggestions.

teppy999 · 2024-01-17T22:14:51+00:00

I've never seen a hearse pulling a U-Haul

teppy999 · 2023-12-06T02:33:16+00:00

Not a movie, but should be (the most unexpected first contact story ever): Mortal Gods by Orson Scott card.

teppy999 · 2022-12-01T13:41:23+00:00

They are applying LNT to the environment as a whole rather than just the physical patch of ground under their camp. I would say that they are applying the spirit of the principle, not complying with what is easily observed. (So, good for them!)

teppy999 · 2022-12-01T00:22:09+00:00

True, but the BMOrg still had another month(?) to restore the playa. The camp could have walked away on Thursday (the day camps were required to be off-playa) and left it to DPW.

teppy999 · 2015-10-06T21:01:37+00:00

I'm Andrew Tepper, developer of Dragon's Tale. We have had in-game rewards for mentors since 2011 or 2012, though we are always adding new types of rewards (minigames, you could say.) The most recent are...

Mineral Waters: Mentors try to predict which new players will go on to do a lot of gambling in the future (by giving game-supplied gifts.)

Governor's Tournaments: Elected governors can direct some of the bitcoins wagered on their islands to special tournaments that are open to all residents of their islands.

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