@smurthys (a) Rotating players is absolutely a thing that teams do.
(b) You have no argument from me about deliberately not playing your best is a rules violation. No argument that it's a rules violation. None at all.
@smurthys (a) Rotating players is absolutely a thing that teams do.
(b) You have no argument from me about deliberately not playing your best is a rules violation. No argument that it's a rules violation. None at all.
@smurthys But deliberately choosing a weaker team under the guise of rotating players is potentially a way to cause a losing outcome.
I'm not claiming they will do it, I'm exploring ways that it could be done if a team *did* choose to do it.
(a) Rotating players is common;
(b) Rotating players can lead to a weaker team than might be chosen;
(c) Deliberately choosing a weaker team under the guise of rotating players is therefore possible;
(d) If they then happen to lose, they won't be upset, because actually that's more-or-less a desirable outcome.
@smurthys We are agreed that deliberately losing is (a) "Not Cricket", and (b) against the rules.
We also agree that there are circumstances where losing the game is actually better for the team.
What I'm saying is that there are ways to improve the chances of losing without it being obvious, and I was just speculating about some of them.
With significant experience in security-adjacent activities, seeing the possibilities is unavoidable.
In the #ICC Men's #Cricket World Cup, if Australia beats Namibia, and then loses to Scotland, then Scotland and Australia would go through to the knock-out stage, and England would not.
Would Australia deliberately field a weaker team against Scotland? Would they quietly lose to Scotland with a lot of small errors that could be attributed to carelessness or a lack of attention?
The #GameTheory strategy is actually pretty clear ...
@smurthys I agree that it's against the spirit of the game, and it's likely that there are rules intended to prevent it, but I also suspect that:
(a) A team could easily select their "non-top" players and claim they are resting their best, and initiating the less well-known;
(b) They won't be upset if they lose, and could easily give the appearance of trying their best while not actually doing so.
All I'm doing is looking at the Game Theory aspect, not judging the morality or otherwise.
Well .... this is something ...
https://mathstodon.xyz/@susseratal@mastodon.gamedev.place/112378580389464806
So at a linux (or equivalent) terminal, type this:
$ telnet mapscii.me
Get an interactive world map. In your terminal.
Zoom in and out with A and Z, use the arrow keys to move.
Astonishing.
I think this should be required reading for every student in secondary school, from Year 10 onwards.
Every year.
Make every person aware of it.
https://mathstodon.xyz/@davidallengreen@mastodon.green/112331937548874987
Someone on forged in fire said he gets anxious over lots of things, like spilt milk, and hairy lemons.
Hairy lemons?
What's that about?
Quoting:
"A follow-up with 13 of the volunteers three years later revealed that those who had used GPS the most during the intervening period experienced greater declines in their ability to navigate without GPS, strongly suggesting that GPS reliance causes diminished skills, rather than poor skills leading to greater GPS use."
Time for today's adventure in understanding why things don't work the way I think they should.
Please feel free to boost this for reach, or ignore it if you have no interest, and think none of your followers can help.
Today ... a USB disk mounted on an Ubuntu machine.
1/n
I stared at this for a long time before seeing the key word to unlock it (for me):
#CellTower 682
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https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/cell-tower/?p=682
Current streak: 28 (Nickel)
Best streak: 93
[I'm not asking for advice ... please don't try to help me]
OK, so ...
Trying to assist #ElderlyRelative to to things on the computer. These are things that they are absolutely capable of, and will (I believe) greatly enhance their quality of life.
Then Oh. My. God.
The misconceptions are f'n unbelievably. The way they think things work, the things they believe happen when they perform certain operations, it's just ... inconceivable.
I've started to unpick some of what's going on, and it's horrendous.
To start ...
[I'm not asking for advice ... please don't try to help me]
When people have "explained" things they've talked about files and directories.
Well, for #ElderlyRelative a "file" is a place you put letters, photos, and other documents.
A "Directory" is a thing like a old-style telephone directory ... it's a document with a listing of things in it.
Then there's the confusion of putting a "File" inside a "Folder" which is inside another "Folder" which is on a drive.
No, not this drive sitting beside the computer, and not the drive inside the computer. It's actually on a drive in "The Cloud".
"How did it get there? Why don't I have it any more?"
Oh, not that cloud, the other cloud. Not "One Drive", but "Google Drive".
[I'm not asking for advice ... please don't try to help me]
I'm trying to work out where to start so that we end up more capable, less confused, and with an accurate mental model.
Just Giving Up isn't an option. We need these extra facilities and capabilities, and I need to find an absolutely minimal reworking of the system and their understanding.
It's a bloody nightmare.
Understand this ...
#ElderlyRelative is clever and capable, it's just that everything has an unexpected name, and there are more capabilities than they are used to. Those capabilities have all been "explained" quickly, and with little or no reference to what they already know, so there's been no chance to assimilate the knowledge.
The frustration and rage are palpable ... I can feel them ... and they are SO F'N UNNECESSARY.
This intelligent, curious, capable person has been reduced to believing they are stupid and unable to learn anything.
IT MAKES ME FURIOUS !!!
The inventor of auto-correct has died. Their funnel is tomato. -- Source unknown
It's always a joy ... and a surprise ... when software I wrote ages ago on a different computer just works as intended.
Lovely experience, but very surprising.
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with -- W.C.Fields
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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