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owenlacey

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    Comment #46287057

    correct! I might put a little footnote on this to make that clear, thanks

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    Comment #46287050

    thanks so much - glad you enjoyed it <3

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    Comment #46287037

    What are some other gameshows one could nerd out about? I'll start: An obvious one is the traitors, but I dunno if there's much you can do with this one as the contestants rarely g…

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    Comment #46286997

    Made my day - thanks

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    Comment #46286993

    Sorry :') My wife and I bought the game - it's a great turn based came you can play whilst having trashy reality shows on in the background!

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    Comment #46286987

    Hey! It's all vanilla html/js/css - which I'm pretty proud of. I wanted something really minimal, and felt most charting libraries were overkill so wanted to keep my bundle size sm…

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    Comment #46286979

    Based on my research, MUs perform better than TBs. For my simulated information theories, the MUs gained ~2 bits of information on average vs ~1.1 for TBs. So if only MUs, we're ta…

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    Comment #46286919

    Great spot! The max expected information is 1. I've updated this part of the post to only show examples that are < 1, thank you for raising!

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    Comment #46286698

    Would love to see this! Yes there's a gender fluid season and a season where someone had > 1 match, as well as people leaving part way through the season (apparently perfect matche…

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    Thank you! This is consistent with feedback I got from the pudding, and is ultimately the reason they didn't go ahead with the post. I tried reverse-engineering the information-the…

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    Comment #46286621

    Let's be friends :') Loved your post, really enjoyed getting into the meat of it. I wanted to position mine to a layman, kept asking myself "can I explain this to my Dad?" I think …