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Mario meets Pareto

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Re: Mario meets Pareto

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Post by captn3m0 »

Fnoord wrote: post #48
ihaveajob wrote: post #3

Beautiful presentation. I love when visualizations serve the goal and not the other way around. Tufte would be proud.

Bugs out for me in Firefox at around 2/3. Works fine in Safari. My kid (6) crashes all the time, and she is naturally attracted to picking Peach. I'd say because of that, a character with high acceleration is going to be better. Though she also just likes to push the gas. Though we're playing the one from GBA on Analogue Pocket. Which is probably a lot less advanced as the one in question here (a game for Wii U from…

Bugged out for me around 2/3 on Firefox/iOS (which is really Safari) with Lockdown mode.

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Post by denkmoon »

Fnoord wrote: post #48
ihaveajob wrote: post #3

Beautiful presentation. I love when visualizations serve the goal and not the other way around. Tufte would be proud.

Bugs out for me in Firefox at around 2/3. Works fine in Safari. My kid (6) crashes all the time, and she is naturally attracted to picking Peach. I'd say because of that, a character with high acceleration is going to be better. Though she also just likes to push the gas. Though we're playing the one from GBA on Analogue Pocket. Which is probably a lot less advanced as the one in question here (a game for Wii U from…

FYI Mario Kart for the Switch has a handful of accessibility options that help less experienced/younger/elderly players stay in the game and on the course without taking away from the fun.

Re: Mario meets Pareto

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Post by stefanlindbohm »

Love the application and visualization!

Having spent the past year building a journey planner algorithm, which heavily builds on pareto optimality/sets, from scratch, I was waiting for the full set of pareto optimal solutions. I.e. all kart combinstions that are best in at least one way.

Should be doable by iterating through all possible stats and merging[1] into a set for each one. We might get a lot of solutions, but it should be somewhat managable.

Has anyone tried this?

1: Merging is to take the new entry and 1) removing any existing entry that is dominated by it, and 2) adding the entry if it is not dominated by any existing entry.

Re: Mario meets Pareto

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Post by aidenn0 »

jmholla wrote: post #37

I 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.

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Post by bandrami »

I haven't played this series since the SNES 30 years ago. Do the different characters still get different power-ups from the cubes? Because that was always what I picked based on.

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Post by ndr »

stefanlindbohm wrote: post #67

Love the application and visualization! Having spent the past year building a journey planner algorithm, which heavily builds on pareto optimality/sets, from scratch, I was waiting for the full set of pareto optimal solutions. I.e. all kart combinstions that are best in at least one way. Should be doable by iterating through all possible stats and merging[1] into a set for each one. We might get a lot of solutions, b…

Isn't this what the last part of TFA covers?
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