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General Discussion / Re: Logic problems
« on: March 12, 2013, 06:43:15 pm »
Oh interesting! Building from Jack Rudd's result then that Helen's brother is Mr. White:
Sorry, how did we get that?
He demonstrated that back in page 7.
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He demonstrated that back in page 7.
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General Discussion / Re: Logic problems
« on: March 12, 2013, 05:09:24 pm »Oh interesting! Building from Jack Rudd's result then that Helen's brother is Mr. White:
The second bullet point basically just says "Mr. White's sister, Helen, who is married to her husband, got married on her January birthday."
The first bullet point says that Helen's husband was born in August, and they are 26 weeks apart in age.
Note that August 1st is exactly 26 weeks after January 31st, on a non-leap year. So Helen and her husband who were born on the same year, were not born on a leap year. John however, was born in 1868 according to point 5, which is a leap year, so John isn't Helen's husband.
Using that information, if Helen is Mrs. Brown, then we have Helen Brown née White, which means that the other two women must be Marguerite White née Black, and Beatrice Black née White. Since John isn't married to Helen, he must be Mr. White, leaving Arthur as Mr. Black. But this means Arthur's sister is Beatrice, which can't be the case since Arthur's sister must be taller than Beatrice.
So Beatrice must be Mrs. Brown.
Yes, that's the answer.
Props to you, good sir/lady! I wasn't able to solve it by myself when I first read it.
EDIT: Actually, John was born somewhere between 12th November 1967 and 11th November 1968, but it doesn't change your conclusion, since if he was Helen's husband, then he would be born during August 1968.
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General Discussion / Re: Favorite Pixar Movies?
« on: March 06, 2013, 06:05:46 pm »
No love for the shorts? Nearly all of them are condensed tenderness mixed with pure beauty.
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General Discussion / Re: Favorite Disney Animated Movie
« on: March 05, 2013, 03:07:59 pm »
Hercules.
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General Discussion / Re: Favorite Disney Animated Movie
« on: March 02, 2013, 06:57:32 pm »
As a kid, my favourite was the Lion King, by a wide margin.
Although for me, the villain made the movie, so I also really enjoyed Hunchback of Notre Dame (fantastic music by the way), Aladdin and Hercules (Hades was and still is my favourite villain, though now Dr. Facilier comes close).
Although for me, the villain made the movie, so I also really enjoyed Hunchback of Notre Dame (fantastic music by the way), Aladdin and Hercules (Hades was and still is my favourite villain, though now Dr. Facilier comes close).
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Homage to the Best Card
« on: February 18, 2013, 06:59:43 am »Endless loop. Crashes the universe.
If you had four cards and discarded awesome silver, would the loop stop? You technically have 3 cards for a moment before you put awesome silver back in your hand... Anyway, awesome silver needs a "may" in its reaction text.
[/discussing non-existing cards edge-cases]
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Does Saboteur cycle through your bad cards?
« on: February 15, 2013, 06:51:15 pm »Revealing cards until you reveal a card which meets certain criteria "usually" has the consequence of leaving you, on average, with a lower proportion of cards in your deck which meet that criteria.Actually, if you do this calculation, what you find is that this extreme case (with only 1 saboteurable card in the deck) is a singular one. For any other number of saboteurable cards in the deck the remaining deck quality does not change.
So, on average, loan leaves you with a deck with proportionally less treasures, and saboteur leaves you with a deck with proportionally less cards costing 3$+. The effect, however, is pretty ignorable, on average.
This can be demonstrated (painfully), but if you want to visualize it, imagine the extreme case of two players that open saboteur/nothing, and assume that P1 plays saboteur turn 1, before P2 has a chance to draw his five cards because of some obscure rule that doesn't exist. So P2 is left with 0/n cards costing 3$+ in his deck (n being the number of cards not cycled, and averages 5), which is lower than the normal 1/11.
EDIT: to clarify, this has nothing to do with reshuffle. If you know you have exactly 1 saboteurable card in your remaining deck, then you know you will not trigger a reshuffle by the saboteur. As long as that card is not the last card in your deck, your average quality of the remaining deck will be 0. If that card is the last card, the remaining deck quality is undefined; but any sensible definition will not define that to be higher than the original average, so in this case the average quality of the next card is indeed lower.
It is quite curious why this case is just different from the cases for all other number of saboteurable cards in your deck though.
I've read blueblimp's proof, and he's absolutely correct, so I guess my demonstration is wrong.
The reason his demonstration doesn't work for only one special card is that he assumes the draw deck won't be empty by the end of the reveal, which is only true if you have at least two special cards in your draw deck. That assumption makes the initiation of his recursion, and since we cannot define a density for zero cards decks, dropping it would invalidate his demonstration.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Does Saboteur cycle through your bad cards?
« on: February 15, 2013, 01:44:12 pm »
Revealing cards until you reveal a card which meets certain criteria "usually" has the consequence of leaving you, on average, with a lower proportion of cards in your deck which meet that criteria.
So, on average, loan leaves you with a deck with proportionally less treasures, and saboteur leaves you with a deck with proportionally less cards costing 3$+. The effect, however, is pretty ignorable, on average.
This can be demonstrated (painfully), but if you want to visualize it, imagine the extreme case of two players that open saboteur/nothing, and assume that P1 plays saboteur turn 1, before P2 has a chance to draw his five cards because of some obscure rule that doesn't exist. So P2 is left with 0/n cards costing 3$+ in his deck (n being the number of cards not cycled, and averages 5), which is lower than the normal 1/11.
So, on average, loan leaves you with a deck with proportionally less treasures, and saboteur leaves you with a deck with proportionally less cards costing 3$+. The effect, however, is pretty ignorable, on average.
This can be demonstrated (painfully), but if you want to visualize it, imagine the extreme case of two players that open saboteur/nothing, and assume that P1 plays saboteur turn 1, before P2 has a chance to draw his five cards because of some obscure rule that doesn't exist. So P2 is left with 0/n cards costing 3$+ in his deck (n being the number of cards not cycled, and averages 5), which is lower than the normal 1/11.
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General Discussion / Re: Logic problems
« on: February 13, 2013, 06:03:27 pm »
Avid reader, huh? That one's fresh.
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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Possession in one-player games -- Important?
« on: February 07, 2013, 03:48:23 pm »I didn't say spelling rules are subtle and grammatical rules aren't. Grammatical rules are often very subtle. Since spelling isn't language per se, but just a technology for writing language down, it's more likely to have rules of the sort that people can consciously think of and functionally justify, like "do it this way to avoid ambiguity", and if you don't do it that way, you're wrong. Spelling isn't not controlled directly by the underlying grammatical mechanisms of the brain, so it doesn't have to operate in grammatical terms.
Never thought about it that way. Interesting, thank you.
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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Possession in one-player games -- Important?
« on: February 06, 2013, 07:22:41 pm »
Nor that I care one way or another, but that means that you are ready to assume that spelling rules can be "open ended" and "depend on too many linguistic concepts", but not grammar rules?
This might be a cultural thing, since spelling rules are extremely simple in Spanish (compared to other languages), but for me the subtle rules in a language are always related to grammar, not to spelling. I am not trying to contest whether or not the rule I formulated is a spelling rule (since, once again, I am no grammarian), but the fact that you expect more subtility from spelling rules than from grammar rules.
And this is probably the most off-topic post I have ever written in any forum.
This might be a cultural thing, since spelling rules are extremely simple in Spanish (compared to other languages), but for me the subtle rules in a language are always related to grammar, not to spelling. I am not trying to contest whether or not the rule I formulated is a spelling rule (since, once again, I am no grammarian), but the fact that you expect more subtility from spelling rules than from grammar rules.
And this is probably the most off-topic post I have ever written in any forum.
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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Possession in one-player games -- Important?
« on: February 06, 2013, 05:47:00 am »One, "anywhere that they lead to this type of ambiguity" is simply not the type of rule grammars can contain; it's too open-ended and depends on too many non-linguistic concepts.
Well, I am no grammarian myself, but this kind of rules exists in Spanish, notably for diacritic accents: they are compulsory when their absence would lead to ambiguity, and only tolerated when there is no possible confusion.
(Ex: "He comido las patatas, solo."/"He comido las patatas, sólo." [I've eaten the potatoes alone/I've only eaten the potatos]; here the accent is compulsory in the second meaning of the term "sólo", since otherwise the two sentences could be confused.
"Solo fuimos al teatro." [We've only been to the theatre], here the accent would be tolerated, but not preferred, since there is no possible confusion.)
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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Possession in one-player games -- Important?
« on: February 03, 2013, 11:41:08 am »
Well, it is not like the diversity of spoken Spanish is any less important than that of spoken English, nor the relations among countries any less complex, and still the "Real Academia" can and does initiate dialogue with the other national institutions to catalog the current usage of the language, and what can or cannot be considered correct.
Mind you, those institutions have already been established and more or less accepted by most of the Spanish speaking community, so they have to face less resistance.
Mind you, those institutions have already been established and more or less accepted by most of the Spanish speaking community, so they have to face less resistance.
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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Possession in one-player games -- Important?
« on: February 03, 2013, 08:20:13 am »There is no central authority.
Out of curiosity, there really isn't any central authority on correct language use for English? There is one both for Spanish and French, and I'd be amazed if they were the only ones.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Random city question
« on: February 03, 2013, 07:47:36 am »
In the French system, they call integers/whole numbers/N {0, 1, 2...} and relative numbers/Z {...-2,-1,0,1,2...}. The general assumption is that 0 is included, unless otherwise stated.
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General Discussion / Re: Logic problems
« on: January 30, 2013, 01:11:03 pm »
Timetable: N, 5:09 | S, 5:10 | N, 5:19 | S, 5:20| N, 5:29 | S, 5:30 | N, 5:39 | S, 5:40 | N, 5:49 | S, 5:50 | N, 5:59 | S, 6:00 ; or something equivalent.
Gaah, ninja'd three times.
Gaah, ninja'd three times.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Random city question
« on: January 29, 2013, 02:14:18 pm »
I've rarely read posts in this forum talking about cities giving extra coin and buy (I guess it is assumed to be a pretty rare occurrence?), only about cities working as a super-lab, and the most common level associated with city in this forum is 2 : "level 2 city". So I'd say that the unspoken consensus is 1/2/3.
Logically, it should be 0/1/2, since that matches the number of empty piles, but for people with RPG culture but no programming culture, level 0 sounds awkward... My two cents.
I voted 1/2/3, because I believe that's what people believe around here. I'd rather refer to it as 0/1/2 though.
Logically, it should be 0/1/2, since that matches the number of empty piles, but for people with RPG culture but no programming culture, level 0 sounds awkward... My two cents.
I voted 1/2/3, because I believe that's what people believe around here. I'd rather refer to it as 0/1/2 though.
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General Discussion / Re: A joke thread
« on: January 27, 2013, 05:18:18 pm »If you are into obscure music jokes, I suggest Don't Shoot the Pianist.
e.g. http://euge.ca/2012/09/16/birthday/
http://euge.ca/2012/05/18/octave/
http://euge.ca/2012/05/04/three-hands/
http://euge.ca/2012/01/13/interruption/
Out of curiosity, for those of us that never took solfège lessons, which... err... scores (?) are played in "octave" you linked to, and in "coping" (http://euge.ca/2011/12/23/coping/) ?
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General Discussion / Re: Logic problems
« on: January 22, 2013, 07:34:08 pm »If any of you lack the capacity to solve problems involving infinitely countable hats (I know I do), here's one of my favourite puzzles (this one is by Raymond Smullyan; I had to retranslate the version I have, so sorry if the English is wonky):
In 1918, the day the First World War armistice was signed, three married couples celebrated the occasion dining together. Each husband is the brother of one wife, and each wife is the sister of one husband; that is, there are three brother-sister pairs in the group. We know the following:
-Helen is exactly twenty-six weeks older than her husband, who was born in august.
-The sister of Mr. White, who is married to the brother-in-law of Helen’s brother, got married to him on her birthday, which is in January.
-Marguerite White isn’t as tall as William Black.
-Arthur’s sister is taller than Beatrice.
-John is fifty years old.
What is Mrs. Brown first name?
I don't know if anyone will try to solve this one or not, but just in case, here's a hint that normally should get you to the answer:
The date is relevant.
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General Discussion / Re: Logic problems
« on: January 17, 2013, 06:37:55 pm »I think it would be a lot faster to have the maiden who goes into the tower Day 1 to set the switch in the proper off position.A witch captures 50 maidens. She puts them all in a dungeon and tells them: "Tomorrow morning I will separate you into 50 separate cells, so you will not be able to communicate or see each other in any way after tonight. Then every once in a while, a few times a day or so, I will randomly choose one of you and take you to my tower.
The information isn't exact enough that you can do that. I don't think it is guaranteed that any of them will be taken the first day. Depends on how you read the problem, I guess.
That's the problem: no maid can be sure that she's the first to be taken to the switch room.
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General Discussion / Re: Logic problems
« on: January 17, 2013, 04:11:18 pm »
You are globally right, yes. The end of the puzzle is somewhat more subtle though.
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General Discussion / Re: Logic problems
« on: January 16, 2013, 01:50:00 pm »Helen
I'll wait for the spoilered explanation since, you know, there's a 50% chance to guess randomly
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General Discussion / Re: Logic problems
« on: January 16, 2013, 01:40:33 pm »
If any of you lack the capacity to solve problems involving infinitely countable hats (I know I do), here's one of my favourite puzzles (this one is by Raymond Smullyan; I had to retranslate the version I have, so sorry if the English is wonky):
In 1918, the day the First World War armistice was signed, three married couples celebrated the occasion dining together. Each husband is the brother of one wife, and each wife is the sister of one husband; that is, there are three brother-sister pairs in the group. We know the following:
-Helen is exactly twenty-six weeks older than her husband, who was born in august.
-The sister of Mr. White, who is married to the brother-in-law of Helen’s brother, got married to him on her birthday, which is in January.
-Marguerite White isn’t as tall as William Black.
-Arthur’s sister is taller than Beatrice.
-John is fifty years old.
What is Mrs. Brown first name?
In 1918, the day the First World War armistice was signed, three married couples celebrated the occasion dining together. Each husband is the brother of one wife, and each wife is the sister of one husband; that is, there are three brother-sister pairs in the group. We know the following:
-Helen is exactly twenty-six weeks older than her husband, who was born in august.
-The sister of Mr. White, who is married to the brother-in-law of Helen’s brother, got married to him on her birthday, which is in January.
-Marguerite White isn’t as tall as William Black.
-Arthur’s sister is taller than Beatrice.
-John is fifty years old.
What is Mrs. Brown first name?
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General Discussion / Re: DominionStrategy Forum Members Map!
« on: January 14, 2013, 06:34:42 pm »Oops, forgot to mention that this is probably late March - early April. The plan was to see Barca v Mallorca, which I gather is not a particularly 'hot' match. When should I buy those tickets? Where should I sit in Camp Nou? Is there any concern that Barca fields a team of B players, so that I don't actually get to see Messi/Iniesta/etc.?
My Spanish is poor. My wife's is much better, but mostly Latin American. I'm going to get ready to hear a lot of "Ethh-pañol" :-)
Finally, the plan is to visit Sevilla and/or Granada. No set plan -- any recommendations? (Other than delicious sangria)
I can't really give you any piece of advice about which seat you should get, since I've never been to a game myself (I'm not really into football); however, one third of the tickets have already been sold for the Barça-Mallorca, so I wouldn't wait much longer to get them either.
About Sevilla and Granada, if you can only go to one of them, go to Sevilla, there are more things to do there; however, you'll be losing on the Alhambra... I can't really go into much detail about them, since I've seldom been there.
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General Discussion / Re: DominionStrategy Forum Members Map!
« on: January 14, 2013, 03:35:36 pm »
As far as I know and according to their official site, only three games take place that month at the Camp Nou: Barça-Deportivo de la Coruña (10/03/13), Barça-Milan (12/03/2013) and Barça-Rayo Vallecano (17/03/2013). We are talking 20-80€ for the Rayo Vallecano, but 80€-160€ to see the Milan (that's expected to be a very good game, in case it wasn't obvious); there aren't many seats left, so if that's when you are going, buy the tickets now before it's too late!
About the city itself, well, obviously the two most visited landmarks are the Camp Nou (AKA the Catalan Mecca) and the Sagrada Familia (make sure to get inside, by the way, it's definitely worth the standing line); aside from that, you want to visit the "Barri Gotic" (old city center, beware the pickpockets), las Ramblas (beware the pickpockets there too) and "Passeig de Gràcia" (the most recognizable XIXth century Barcelona), anything else signed by Gaudi (at the very least you've got the "Parc Güell" left, that isn't negotiable). Then it depends on how much time you've got and the kind of things that you want to see, but the Port is nice and there's plenty of thing to do there; so is the Tibidabo (one of the hills that surround BCN), which among other things holds a 112 year old amusement park; Montjuic (with, among other things, the "Palau Nacional", AKA Catalan National Art Museum).
And in case you didn't know, most people only grudgingly speak Spanish in Barcelona, they rather speak Catalan here. On the other hand, Andalucian accent is pretty rough too, so if you were planning to improve your Spanish, tough luck
Where to Andalucía, by the way? Córdoba, Sevilla, Granada...?
About the city itself, well, obviously the two most visited landmarks are the Camp Nou (AKA the Catalan Mecca) and the Sagrada Familia (make sure to get inside, by the way, it's definitely worth the standing line); aside from that, you want to visit the "Barri Gotic" (old city center, beware the pickpockets), las Ramblas (beware the pickpockets there too) and "Passeig de Gràcia" (the most recognizable XIXth century Barcelona), anything else signed by Gaudi (at the very least you've got the "Parc Güell" left, that isn't negotiable). Then it depends on how much time you've got and the kind of things that you want to see, but the Port is nice and there's plenty of thing to do there; so is the Tibidabo (one of the hills that surround BCN), which among other things holds a 112 year old amusement park; Montjuic (with, among other things, the "Palau Nacional", AKA Catalan National Art Museum).
And in case you didn't know, most people only grudgingly speak Spanish in Barcelona, they rather speak Catalan here. On the other hand, Andalucian accent is pretty rough too, so if you were planning to improve your Spanish, tough luck
Where to Andalucía, by the way? Córdoba, Sevilla, Granada...?