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Love this article, OP, especially those interactive demos. One small suggestion: > A truth booth is where a male & female ... The use of "male" and "female" as nouns sounds very unnatural. "A man and a woman" would be a little less jarring, imo.
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And sometimes they just don't do better as a plot point, staying together an extra week after finding out they are not the one because of the intensity of their love (they met 4 days before)
Giving them more credit than they probably deserve but: when you're solving "by hand" like they are in the show, keeping a known non-match couple together may actually be helpful for interpreting the results of a matchup ceremony because you'll know that that couple didn't contribute to the beams.
This was great, but it skipped over the most interesting bit - how you actually choose which matchups and truth booths. That is, an actual strategy that contestants could use that doesn't require a computer.
In addition to Mastermind, Wordle also falls into the same category. Optimal play to reduce the search space in both follow the same general pattern - the next check should satisfy all previous feedback, and included entries should be the most probable ones, both of those previously tested, and those not. If entries are equally probable, include the one which eliminates the largest number of remaining possibilities i…
I don't think that's a justified assumption. I wouldn't be surprised if wordle puzzles intentionally don't follow common letter frequency to be more interesting to guess. That's certainly true for people casually playing hangman.
I would love to know how the author went about constructing those lovely charts. Some library, or done by hand?
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 small. I'm thinking of making the interactive parts open source so people can take a look for themselves if that would be helpful
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I hear this commonly about using the words "male" and "female." I think it's unfair. For one thing, the military uses them frequently, and so would veterans. Another reason is that their meanings are age-agnostic which helps to emphasize the intent of the speaker--to differentiate on sex alone, not sex plus age.
If the goal is to find the perfect matching in some maximum number of turns or less, it's possible to do even better by using a full game tree that minimises the maximum height of the tree ( = number of turns required), instead of using information/entropy as done here. Basically, using the entropy produces a game tree that minimises the number of steps needed in expectation -- but that tree could be quite unbalanced…
> Basically, using the entropy produces a game tree that minimises the number of steps needed in expectation
It might be even worse than that for problems of this kind in general. You're essentially using a greedy strategy: you optimize early information gain.
It's clear that this doesn't optimize the worst-case, but it might not optimize the expected number of steps either.
I don't see why it couldn't be the case that an expected-steps-optimal strategy gains less information early on, and thus produces larger sets of possible solutions, but through some quirk those larger sets are easier to separate later.
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I hear this commonly about using the words "male" and "female." I think it's unfair. For one thing, the military uses them frequently, and so would veterans. Another reason is that their meanings are age-agnostic which helps to emphasize the intent of the speaker--to differentiate on sex alone, not sex plus age.
Love this article, OP, especially those interactive demos. One small suggestion: > A truth booth is where a male & female ... The use of "male" and "female" as nouns sounds very unnatural. "A man and a woman" would be a little less jarring, imo.
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I don't think the author is an incel and it's pretty rude to throw out that kind of language for what's pretty clearly just a style choice.
Love this article, OP, especially those interactive demos. One small suggestion: > A truth booth is where a male & female ... The use of "male" and "female" as nouns sounds very unnatural. "A man and a woman" would be a little less jarring, imo.
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