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This was so much cooler than just being told that 4 colors is enough for every map – this one will stick with me.
It would be wonderful if schools taught a bit more like this – I almost felt like I discovered it myself!
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Whoops! Switched to "British Isles" -- update should be percolating now
I prefer the term “Atlantic Archipelago”. The “British Isles” encompassing a non-british sovereign state is contentious. Other good terms are “Britain and Ireland” or the “British-Irish isles”
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Whoops! Switched to "British Isles" -- update should be percolating now
I prefer the term “Atlantic Archipelago”. The “British Isles” encompassing a non-british sovereign state is contentious. Other good terms are “Britain and Ireland” or the “British-Irish isles”
Loved the interactions and flow overall but I'm a bit lost on the zero knowledge proof example. I'm familiar with the concept but I don't follow how the example is one. E.g. "By repeating the process enough times, the probability that you never catch me becomes smaller than, say, getting struck by lightning" doesn't seem to show it's a proof? If I pick a hundred numbers it'll look like I just proved some black box fu…
Very glad you enjoyed it! For the ZK example, the math behind it is this: if there are m bordering regions and I am lying, you have a 1/m chance of catching me each time. Thus after k repetitions the chance you haven't caught me is (1-1/m)^k \approx e^{-k/m} which is extremely small for k sufficiently larger than m. Now, you may rightfully say: hey that's still not a "proof," you could still be lying! There are two r…
Only thing I would change is to make it so clicking on the picture doesn't trigger a text select, it was hard to play because a context menu kept popping up every time I changed map color.
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And it's use in English only comes from the mid 16th and 17th centuries, right around the time that much of Ireland was being colonized by the British. Frankly, I find the term offensive, and think it should be discouraged in much the same way people have shifted away from "the Ukraine" to simply Ukraine.
Why is "the Ukraine" bad?
It's the difference between a descriptive name for a region and a proper noun for a country.
Uh, when you draw the map that requires three colors, I couldn't figure out how to submit it to at least be told it's not good enough. Or if it automatically accepts for a 3-min [1], then it was too hard to make sure that the boundary reached the edge of the screen. (I thought I successfully drew five regions around a point.) [1] sorry, 3-chromatic or whatever
Hmm, my guess is you're trying to use the box's borders as lines (they don't count, only the lines you draw count). Let me know if that's not the issue. Also, I'll think about ways to make this more clear!
Alternatively, you could automatically "close" figures after they have at least three points, and give a hint of a handle that allows dragging a new point out of the middle of an existing side.
Well in the end it was fun, but the warning is very misleading at least from a game perspective. I have played games at the same level but it certainly wasnt this hard, haha...
But hey, saying that it was difficult, was the only thing that kept me going for 2hrs, only to be annoyed and have a face palm moment after seeing the answer.
Nonetheless it's good post
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Good point! I'll try to think about a better way to phrase this (happy to hear suggestions)
Nah, actually I agree with you. What counts as believe and what as fact is rather abitrary. Is 2+2=4 a fact? Is global warming a fact? What about man-made global warming? Ask 100 people whether something is a fact or a believe. To top that up, it's fact that there have been "proves" that were wrong (or maybe that's just my believe? :^]) even for a long time. Hence, I think we can say that there are 4 options for a th…
Mathematical poofs are either correct or false. There is no middle ground.
The Republic of Ireland (the west most region on the first page) isn't part of the United Kingdom. The term for the group of regions shown is 'the British Isles'. See https://qntm.org/uk While it seems like a trivial distinction the whole thing is somewhat fraught ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles ).
It's about as "trivial" a distinction as considering Crimea (or the entirety of Ukraine, for that matter) a part of Russia. Many, many people have died for this triviality. "Somewhat fraught" is a very interesting choice of words, but then again, so is "The Troubles" (when the subject matter is decades of bombings and killings).