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Mario meets Pareto
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#112This is so darn good!
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#113You have a lot of options to choose from. How to pick the truly best option? Let me show you a method, in which you arbitrarily pick 3 out of 6 attributes and then use an artificial, unintuitive interface to choose an optimum trade-off between them. And once you do, my super-amazing method will tell you what combination to use, easy! OK I might be an old bitter cynic, but the beginning got my hopes up for something c…
Not entirely sure what you're looking for.
If you don't want to use the "artificial, unintuitive interface" (bit rude IMO) you could just google "best mario kart setup".
The selection of attributes is not exactly arbitrary. AFAIK speed has always been by far the dominant stat in mario kart, then acceleration. Choosing e.g. better handling at the expense of speed is an immediate disadvantage. If your problem is that this doesn't help you to choose atteibutes in the general case, take it up with the chaos of the natural world...
This article solves a problem people have (not knowing what setup to pick) in a very stylish way (subjective) and teaches the reader something along the way (what a Pareto frontier is).
Not a particularly constructive comment if you ask me.
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#114When buying a bike, I kind of used this method by looking at the cost-vs-spec-level plot on 99Spokes. Although it should be taken with a grain of salt, as spec level is a heuristic and not always very accurate. Found a nice MTB for a good price that way, but struggled with other types of bicycles.
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#115Well... that was a seriously impressive presentation. I already knew about Pareto efficiency/the Pareto frontier, but now I'll never be able to forget it. And I'll think of Mario Kart (and poor Koopa being dominated) every time.
These are the sorts of articles that a lot of news sites and digital publications dream of when pitching venture capitalists to cultivate this as a new sort of medium. But I've always found that the most compelling stuff, the most compelling digital presentations are often emergent. I think designing around it as a goal is impossible and often comes off as contrived and annoying. However, there are a times like this…
From what I understand of Svelte, it was built by a working data journalist with the dream of enabling these type of rich media articles. So yeah, 'emergent' and 'uncontrived' are in the DNA of this article and the tech beneath it.
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#116If I'm optimizing for 'weight' is it supposed to be heavier or lighter? At the moment it seems the more weight I put on 'weight' the heavier the build is.
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#117From the site:
"all elements on the frontier are not equally good."
Peach is just as good as Daisy, for example, so I'd say: "Not all elements of the frontier are equally good."
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#118I always knew those little red tires were the best. Sadly, this misses the most important thing to me: style. And my love of Zelda. So I'm afraid I'll personally have to disregard all of this.
In the original MK8, the Triforce tires and Hylean gliders were pretty good, but the stats in MK8 Deluxe for them are not nearly as good.
Also keep in mind that the 3.0.0 patch for Deluxe changed a bunch of stats.
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#120Mario kart doesn't have weight as a metric for speed in turns?