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realmofthemad

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    Comment #48596067

    > But actually they did worse since they needed a hint or 4. Hmm, that is interesting, I had not thought about that. I will see if it makes more sense to reverse the axis. Might ju…

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    Comment #48592050

    That helps a lot, thank you! A district is a connected group of hexes. With the other districts you have drawn, there is no way to create a connected group of hexes containing all …

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    Comment #48591322

    Districts are connected regions that can contain at most 4 houses. If you click on a house that is too far away from your started district, it might not be possible to span the dis…

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    Comment #48591223

    If a tile can be added to your district, it is added. Otherwise it makes a new district. Since todays puzzle heavily relies on empty space, it can be a bit confusing. I'll try to m…

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    Comment #48588795

    Personally I've been very surprised with the public support for the increase in political gerrymandering. I know that people think it is worth it for the short term gains, but it s…

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    Comment #48587948

    Yes indeed, not super realistic, since it would never happen. but it does make for a more fun puzzle :)

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    Comment #48587603

    I'm not sure I understand what you mean, would you mind sending over a screenshot or video of where you are stuck?

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    Comment #48587546

    I'm sorry you've found it a bit difficult to pick up! There is an introduction below the game, but it can still be a bit hard to follow since it's all text. I'll see about adding a…

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    Comment #48587513

    Glad you enjoyed it!

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    Comment #48436540

    Am I missing out? I feel like I can definitely tell the difference in quality between Claude Opus and other smaller models. The smaller models are much more likely to make mistakes…

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    Comment #48210428

    Another day, another round of meta layoffs...

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    Comment #48210267

    It's very hard to tell how much is actually fake though. Are there any good statistics on this?

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    Comment #48209960

    I feel like there is some incredible progress happening in robotics that mostly gets ignored! Especially compared to how much gets written about LLMs

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    Comment #48209810

    This just seems like a pretty normal way to use AI