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- Fri May 15, 2020 12:30 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 WORKSHOP Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 42
- Views: 9267
Re: 2020 WORKSHOP Specific Question Discussion
Small question/clarification on the Abramović bonus: we answered " Rhythms " for the first(?) part, which asked for the series of pieces that includes Rhythm 0 , and our answer was ruled incorrect. The series is attested ( https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/5177 ) to be called Rhythms , so...
- Tue Feb 25, 2020 2:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 Terrapin Open: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 50
- Views: 8474
Re: 2020 Terrapin Open: Specific Question Discussion
I believe the lead in referred to Markov blankets, which I don't think are really "blankets of Markov chains" +1. I know the first clue of that tossup only as a "Markov blanket", which was confusing since "Markov" isn't a structure ("Is there another term for this...
- Tue Feb 25, 2020 2:38 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 Terrapin Open: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 50
- Views: 8474
Re: 2020 Terrapin Open: Specific Question Discussion
Could I please see the tossup on "descriptions"? I buzzed in near the clue about the iota operator with "referring expressions" and wasn't prompted. While they aren't exactly the same, they are probably similar enough for a prompt (I fully accept my neg, as I admittedly wouldn't ...
- Mon Feb 24, 2020 11:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 Terrapin Open: Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8130
Re: 2020 Terrapin Open: Thanks and General Discussion
Thank you for not making the linguistics in this set another instance of Phonology Bowl. I greatly enjoyed the semantics and pragmatics content.
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 8:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion: Question Content
- Replies: 90
- Views: 47171
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion: Question Content
I'll also chime in my support for the Rust tossup. The early(?)-mid clues we heard seemed to be discussing its desirable memory safety properties, which was enough context to make a semi-confident buzz. As Ike said, Rust is becoming more popular, and the reasons for its rising popularity are to do w...
- Fri Mar 29, 2019 2:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Mixtape: A Guerrilla Popular Music Event for Charity
- Replies: 45
- Views: 21649
Re: Mixtape: A Guerrilla Popular Music Event for Charity
I'll write a packet as well.
- Thu Mar 14, 2019 12:53 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Errata
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3870
Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Errata
I drew a neg on the "debugging" tossup with an answer of "profiling" based on the Valgrind clue. While it is certainly true that Valgrind can be used for debugging, its other major use case is profiling, and indeed this is the use case I am most familiar with (so presumably other...
- Tue Mar 12, 2019 6:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Terrapin speciifc question discussion and requests
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5067
Re: 2019 Terrapin speciifc question discussion and requests
The seeming list of definitions must have just been a gameplay artifact then. I agree that the clues refer to very important ideas. So I must have just mis-parsed something along the way. I will say that when I heard the knowledge question, “box operator” and “positive introspection” stuck out rathe...
- Mon Mar 11, 2019 8:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Terrapin speciifc question discussion and requests
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5067
Re: 2019 Terrapin speciifc question discussion and requests
Could you post the tossups on "knowledge" and "meaning"? I found these questions hard to parse at game speed since they seemed to just be lists of semanticists and their various (dense) definitions of the given concept (this claim could be factually incorrect, but it was my impre...
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 1:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 20740
Re: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
I thought the CS in this set was much better than what I’ve seen in recent sets. I appreciated the focus on important concepts and people rather than on, e.g., various uses of [certain keyboard characters] in a few programming languages. The latter kind of question feels like a vocab quiz in that it...
- Fri Dec 09, 2016 11:09 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2016 WHAQ Question-Specific Discussion
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2975
Re: 2016 WHAQ Question-Specific Discussion
Tossup 11: The first sentence isn't quite accurate; e provides the value of x, not the "largest value of x to the power of 1 over x". Perhaps reword as "...which asks for the value of x which maximizes x to the power of 1 over x". I will say this is a good example of breaking th...
- Mon Jun 08, 2015 6:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO History 2015
- Replies: 139
- Views: 77316
Re: CO History 2015
Will Mason, Ben Zhang, Naveed Chowdhury, and myself will be playing as a team.
- Sat May 16, 2015 10:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO History 2015
- Replies: 139
- Views: 77316
Re: CO History 2015
Will Mason and I are still looking for two more people to join our team.
- Wed Apr 01, 2015 1:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO History 2015
- Replies: 139
- Views: 77316
Re: CO History 2015
Will Mason and I are also interested in playing.
- Mon Apr 22, 2013 5:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Where Will You Be Going to College Next Year? 2012-13
- Replies: 56
- Views: 24425
Re: Where Will You Be Going to College Next Year? 2012-13
I will be playing for Wash U in St. Louis next year.
- Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Open Summer Practices at the University of Delaware
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3436
Re: Open Summer Practices at the University of Delaware
Hey Joe, How will practices be set up? Will it be broken up by players' skills/level, tournament-style team play, regular team play (like HS practice) or solo play? And I was also wondering what kinds of sets you'll be running (HS, College, etc.)? Sounds like an awesome opportunity to not get rusty!...