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Andrew Feist

I have Jono, Raccoon and Jonathan Wynn because the Rival-o-matic told me too, and if I overruled that I'd basically be disagreeing with myself. Do you change it up every week when the ROM gives you new people? I have Liam Tiernan, Matt M, and Scott Gillies, because I appear to play Liam and Scott q...

Andrew Feist

Currently we have 40 in the Main Event, 33 in the Speed Demon, and 30 in the Junior Mint, with three days left in the registration period, so there's plenty of room (although I have to admit 36 in the Speed Demon would be a really really really really good number). As with the last summer tournament...

Andrew Feist

The web page for the tournament has been set up, and all the entries that I've gotten so far should be listed in the proper place. If you have already registered, please just hit the page up quickly and double-check that you are where you want to be. I'm going to keep to one-match-a-week as far as i...

Andrew Feist

I am pleased to announce that entries are now being taken for the Apterous Winter Closed series of tournaments. We have: The Main Event: The Winter Closed itself. This tournament will be divided into sections based on rating. Rather than have a pre-defined cutoff, I will instead split the list at &q...

Andrew Feist

Rhys Benjamin wrote:Raw Scoring

I think you'll find that's called "Flat".

Andrew Feist

Dunno how it's working from here but I played Ben Hunter and won 2-0. http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=335041 110-65. http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?key=-5297616869793216878 120-68. Good games Ben, thanks for playing. :) Surely it should be 4th v 5th to reward the best performers in ...

Andrew Feist

Rivals to be somewhere on the left side so I don't have to manually add "rivals.php" to the end of the URL every time.
I don't really mind a limit on the number of rivals, but 3? I can't even check off everybody on my Rival-o-matic.

Andrew Feist

Charlie Reams wrote:
Jonathan Wynn wrote:ETIOLATED but not ETIOLATES? A mistake surely?
Not really. Something can be unkempt but no one unkemps it. Adjectives don't necessarily produce verbs.

Don't know about the "real" dictionary; my dictionary only contains etiolate as a verb and not an adjective.

Andrew Feist

It seems people like their vacations, which means I'll have to find something else for my family to do over the holidays. We'll go with option 3 then; you should be looking for full details and registration 'round about the 14th of November for a November 28 start. (The schedule would then be Nov 28...

Andrew Feist

I feel like I've seen this bug pointed out (and despaired about) before, but anyway: When resuming an adjourned game, I often get the following after the first resumed round: ClientGame1147 [CXPLAY]: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.util.ArrayList cannot be cast to [Lapterous.game.RoundSummary; Th...

Andrew Feist

Ah, spring, when a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of love. Unfortunately, that's a ways off yet, so it's time to start thinking about the Apterous Winter Closed. This year we'll have the main event (in sections based on rating) as well as side events (plural!) going on at the same time; you can...

Andrew Feist

Getting messages that look a lot like: Could not establish database connection... Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /media/logdisk/www/epoch.php:1) in /media/logdisk/www/connect.inc.php on line 62 Warning: Cannot modify header information - header...

Andrew Feist

I think my glory roll says something important about me, if only I could figure out what it was:

Andrew Feist

Are public schools actually cost-free to attend there? I attended public schools here, but I can remember having to pay fees at the start of the school year. (Something more like $50, not quite £60, and certainly a lot less than a private school, but.) (Actually, I just checked the website of my old...

Andrew Feist

For Superstats, to go with Nemesis, the "Body Double" (there has to be a better name than this, even if I can't think of it): the person that you've played 375 times and the record currently stands 188-187.

Andrew Feist

duplexing^, as in what the big copier at work does.

Andrew Feist

Gavin Chipper wrote:What's Hex?

It's the computer that runs on ants in Terry Pratchett's books.

Andrew Feist

It is that time, when statistics students start learning about tests of hypotheses on two samples of data. If anyone is willing to have their statistics used in an in-class example (or even on a test question!) send me a message. (You won't have to go digging for numbers or anything like that.)

Andrew Feist

Robert Baxter wrote:
Jeff Clayton wrote:C'est pour les francophiles ainsi que les francophones !
For Francophiles and Francophones ?

Has this become the Smith-Smythe-Smith Prize for Unseen Translation (French)? If so, I think we may need a harder text next time, Jeff.

Andrew Feist

Indeed it's not, it's using some slightly-dubious curve fitting thing for which I blame Raccoon entirely. For a rating differential of X points, the EoA % will be 100 / ( 1 + exp( -0.04815 - 0.006744 * X ) ) with clamps at 1% and 99% (so that people don't get too sad). I've thought occasionally but...

Andrew Feist

I don't think this is a bug, so didn't like to post it under Bug Reports. The Apterous chat window has been blank for me for several days. As no-one else seems to have mentioned it, it must be a problem at my end. Any suggestions, anyone? No-one can mention it, due to its nature. I guess that means...

Andrew Feist

B) Because I had nothing else to do for five minutes, I programmed my calculator to do the Elo win-expectancy formula thing for two ratings. It doesn't give the same answer as the eye of apterous. Is that using some other formula? If so, is there any chance we could have it so I could program that ...

Andrew Feist

1) How much of this is serendipity and how much is good plans coming together, but the letters-disappearing-during-extra-time has the added benefit of you being able to tell whether you started typing your last-second spot in time (if the letters stay up, you didn't), which is a Good Thing. B) Becau...

Andrew Feist

Speaking of new items:
"Who needs numbers?" (Winning a game after scoring 0 on the numbers)
"Who needs letters?" (Winning a game by <30 after scoring 30-0 on the numbers)

Andrew Feist

Eoin Monaghan wrote:
Robert Baxter wrote:Joke - the show has no point is what I mean in the joke.
Joke? I thought you were meant to laugh at these things.

The laughing you do at jokes and the laughing you do at Baxter's posts [where's my bully-from-the-Simpsons smiley] aren't the same.

Andrew Feist

Charlie: a few of us climbing the Mountain have been wondering why there seem to be more 8/10 (topaz) difficulty conundrums than any other difficulty. Lesley even took a small sample of 400 conundrums from her Ascension games and counted >20% of 8/10 difficulty. These were her full results: Difficu...

Andrew Feist

Countdown recap for Tuesday 10 April 2001. C1: Champion David Short (1 win, 52 points.) C2: Challenger Ernie Hulme from Peterborough. DC: Damian Eadie and Lionel Blair. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: N Y D T A I O C E R02: D A E N P T A L I R03: G B S N O U A X I R04: 75, 1,...

Andrew Feist

Unfortunately it looks like you haven't. The left column is Mike scribbling during the time. The second column is the actual declarations from the player, C1 on top and C2 on the bottom (so for R1 for instance it would be LEAVERS for the champ and SLAVERED for the challenger). DC words on the right,...

Andrew Feist

I've noticed the scroll bar thing before -- if you go back to chat and then back to items, you get a scroll bar. (But I think new items then don't show up automatically?) Also a couple times I've had games against the guardian die, leaving this in error tracker: ClientGame612 [CXPLAY]: net.BlockingL...

Andrew Feist

Because ə is always an easily distinguished vowel sound, right?

Andrew Feist

I'm not sure if I'm slightly disappointed or a lot relieved that you don't actually have to get all 9060 conundrums right to get up there. (That said, I'll probably only hit it up on rare occasions.)

Andrew Feist

Countdown recap for Monday 9 April 2001. C1: Champion Stan Airey (2 wins, 113 points.) C2: Challenger David Short from Cardiff. DC: Damian Eadie and Lionel Blair. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: O L A R I S M E Y R02: Q T V I G S A U O R03: T E H I A F O S B R04: 25, 100, 9, ...

Andrew Feist

Countdown recap for Friday 6 April 2001. C1: Champion Stan Airey (1 win, 61 points.) C2: Challenger Marje Ramson from Gosport. DC: Damian Eadie and Lionel Blair. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: E D I O X U W C N R02: B R E I L T S A O R03: E V T I R E N U G R04: 75, 9, 3, 9, ...

Andrew Feist

Countdown recap for Thursday 5 April 2001. C1: Champion John Rainsden (5 wins, 253 points.) C2: Challenger Stan Airey of Lichfield. DC: Damian Eadie and Lionel Blair. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: M T S N E A E L U R02: O W T A D S I T E R03: Y J R D A E I M V R04: 50, 2, 1...

Andrew Feist

Countdown recap for Wednesday 4 April 2001. C1: Champion John Rainsden (4 wins, 201 points.) C2: Challenger Jacqui Baker from Mansfield. DC: Damian Eadie and Lionel Blair. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: N S G W A I E R Y R02: M T C X U A E K I R03: L G C O E A D S E R04: 75,...

Andrew Feist

I will celebrate end-of-end-of-term-grading by going from here: Fri 4-May-01 Adrian D'Enrico 56 - 30 Bill Aspinall Mon 7-May-01 Adrian D'Enrico 47 - 44 Julie O'Sullivan Tue 8-May-01 Adrian D'Enrico 48 - 53 Matthew Jenkins Wed 9-May-01 Matthew Jenkins 42 - 41 James Stewart Thu 10-May-01 Matthew Jenk...

Andrew Feist

Countdown recap for Thursday 10 May 2001. C1: Champion Matthew Jenkins (2 wins, 95 points.) C2: Challenger Steve Leonard from Fontwell, W. Sussex. DC: Tania Styles and Nigel Rees. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: T U B A M O V D E R02: R T Y I O I S G A R03: N E L T U R S A W ...

Andrew Feist

Countdown recap for Wednesday 9 May 2001. C1: Champion Matthew Jenkins (1 win, 53 points.) C2: Challenger James "call me Jim" Stewart from West Kilbride. DC: Tania Styles, birthday girl and Nigel Rees. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: G I D S A L R E I R02: T O A G P...

Andrew Feist

Countdown recap for Tuesday 8 May 2001. C1: Champion Adrian D'Enrico (3 wins, 172 points.) C2: Challenger Matthew Jenkins of Portsmouth. DC: Tania Styles and Nigel Rees. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: A E M T R S I T E R02: R U D G A I D S O R03: L N H E A P R I T R04: 25, 5...

Andrew Feist

Countdown recap for Monday 7 May 2001. C1: Champion Adrian D'Enrico (2 wins, 125 points.) C2: Challenger Julie O'Sullivan from St. Helen's in Merseyside. DC: Tania Styles and Nigel Rees. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: P L N O A T E K I R02: R S G Z E U E V D R03: I O M F T A...

Andrew Feist

Countdown recap for Friday 4 May 2001. C1: Champion Adrian D'Enrico (1 win, 69 points.) C2: Challenger Bill Aspinall from Washingborough, Lincoln. DC: Tania Styles and Keith Barron. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: G D A E I Y K N S R02: M L G O A T E F W R03: N B J O I R T A ...

Andrew Feist

I will celebrate end-of-end-of-term-grading by going from here: Fri 4-May-01 Adrian D'Enrico 56 - 30 Bill Aspinall Mon 7-May-01 Adrian D'Enrico 47 - 44 Julie O'Sullivan Tue 8-May-01 Adrian D'Enrico 48 - 53 Matthew Jenkins Wed 9-May-01 Matthew Jenkins 42 - 41 James Stewart Thu 10-May-01 Matthew Jenki...

Andrew Feist

Clicking randomly led to this page, which contains "This word has an estimated obscurity of % (ubiquitous)."

Andrew Feist

I can't remember if I've seen this proposed before, but: <arithmetician's> choice on the numbers game, for when you don't really care (right now I just hold down tab for a while and then randomly press enter, but sometimes you get 4 large and that's just annoying).

Andrew Feist

Half a dozen people on the good vocabulary page are listed with a rating of 0.

Andrew Feist

Lesley Hines wrote:
Also, the mouse-over of my Gold Bug (tyvm ) just shows gobbledegook.

Thanks

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Talk:Tale ... e_Gold-Bug

Andrew Feist

Countdown recap for Monday 1 January 2001. C1: Champion Dom Glennon (1 win, 61 points.) C2: Challenger Frank Parsons from Manchester. DC: Damian Eadie and Joan Bakewell. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: W A V T E N A R I R02: H S D E O P B U M R03: C I L S E R A F K R04: 100, ...

Andrew Feist

Countdown recap for Friday 29 December 2000. C1: Champion Avril Goodenough (1 win, 48 points.) C2: Challenger Dom Glennon of Cambridge. DC: Damian Eadie and Joan Bakewell. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: T R Y E I E G N U R02: M E T V E R I Q F R03: T S L A O A D C O R04: 50,...

Andrew Feist

James Robinson wrote:One other point:
Charlie Reams wrote:Tue 26-Dec-00 Robert Roden 35 - 42 Dave Ryan
I actually did this one back in March, as you can see.
http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=3465
No matter.

It was in the wiki, but it hadn't gotten to cdb. Now it has.

Andrew Feist

The games from before carried over, yes. (There was actually a distinction here -- the actual game results carried over, and not "places" or anything like that, so even though Lloyd won the pool outright in the prelims, he carried a loss forward into the playoffs. You can (and some of you ...

Andrew Feist

Countdown recap for Thursday 28 December 2000. C1: Champion Colin Mackay (1 win, 47 points.) C2: Challenger Avril Goodenough for Watford. DC: Damian Eadie and Joan Bakewell. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: W F S A U I G R E R02: D Z H A I E L K Y R03: O A N C L E S J M R04: 7...

Andrew Feist

Countdown recap for Wednesday 27 December 2000. C1: Champion Dave Ryan (1 win, 42 points.) C2: Challenger Colin Mackay from Aberdeen. DC: Damian Eadie and Joan Bakewell. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: N E I R T P E L D R02: G U S Q A O N R E R03: H I F T B O A C E R04: 25, 5...

Andrew Feist

Countdown recap for Tuesday 26 December 2000. C1: Champion Robert Roden (1 win, 55 points.) C2: Challenger Dave Ryan from Buxton, Derbyshire. DC: Damian Eadie and Joan Bakewell. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: B S T N E O I L D R02: R W A L E G I R T R03: S M N K E A O Z F R0...

Andrew Feist

I'll start here:

Tue 26-Dec-00 Robert Roden 35 - 42 Dave Ryan
Wed 27-Dec-00 Dave Ryan 45 - 47 Colin Mackay
Thu 28-Dec-00 Colin Mackay 41 - 48 Avril Goodenough
Fri 29-Dec-00 Avril Goodenough 53 - 61 Dom Glennon
Mon 1-Jan-01 Dom Glennon 46 - 28 Frank Parsons

Andrew Feist

All the numbers are in their proper place, and all the results can be found on the ASO website. Congratulations again to the winners: Kirk Bevins, Jim Bentley, Lee Simmonds, and Andy Wilson. (Thanks also to Adam Gillard for pushing and prodding to get this done.)

Andrew Feist

While we're in suggestion mode here: Just like when you get an item, it says "items [new]" in the tab, can you do the same for chat when a new chat message appears? (Occasionally I forget to switch back when I'm playing an actual person.) Also, the bots don't talk any more, which I don't r...

Andrew Feist

Also: I know you've described the conundrum code as hanging together by fingernail clippings and baling wire (not a direct quote), but: can you maybe keep listening for "buzzes" even when the other player has already buzzed in, or maybe stop the clock while your opponent is typing? For in...

Andrew Feist

I have a suspicion that this was requested before, but anyway: Shortcut keys for the numbers (0 1 2 3 4 [5 6 etc for hyper]). I know I can hit tab, and I do hit tab, but still. Also: I know you've described the conundrum code as hanging together by fingernail clippings and baling wire (not a direct ...

Andrew Feist

Charlie Reams wrote:
Dmitry Goretsky wrote:I can't post new topics!
Oh but you can!

I knew you weren't a fan of the dearly departed, but have you no shame sir?

Andrew Feist

GUILLEMET This came up in a game today and neither Dinos nor I had come across it before. I've looked in the great book and can't find it anywhere. Any clues? According to Wikipedia it means those brackets that are rather like arrows. I have this strange idea that the main spelling might be guillem...

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