I am Andrew Hyer, currently living in New Jersey and working in New York (in the finance industry).
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Every structure produced by an architect who apprenticed under B. Johnson or P. Stamatin is impossible. No structure produced by an architect who apprenticed under M. Escher, R. Penrose or T. Geisel is impossible. Slightly under half of self-taught architects produce impossible structures. Materials, blueprints, etc. have no visible effect on this.
There are 5 structures proposed by apprentices to B. Johnson or P. Stamatin (D, E, G, H and K), so we don't need to risk any of the self-taught people.
Cost is based on materials: Nightmares are by far the most expensive, Silver a distant second, the others seem comparable and cheap. G is the only one of our candidates who plans to use Nightmares, so we leave them out and fund D, E, H and K.
If a business doesn't value money because it can't convert money into political power for the CCP, that would in fact be somewhat disturbing.
I'm always happy to have more players: if you want more than one day that's not a big deal, I'm happy to delay until next week if you'd like.
Understood, I'll refrain from posting the solution tomorrow until I've heard from you - if you want more time, let me know and I can push that further back.
Shouldn't that be counting the number squared rather than the number?
If you enjoyed the concept there have been sequels to this: if you want one that's currently being actively played I have one running now, or there's a D&D.Sci tag with a list of all past scenarios.
I'm likely not to actually quantify 'relative to' - there might be an ordered list of players if it seems reasonable to me (for example, if one submission uses 10 soldiers to get a 50% winrate and one uses 2 soldiers to get a 49% winrate, I would feel comfortable ranking the second ahead of the first - or if all players decide to submit the same number of soldiers, the rankings will be directly comparable), but more likely I'll just have a chart as in your Boojumologist scenario:
with one line added for 'optimal play' (above or equal to all players) and one for 'random play' (hopefully below all players).
Overall, I don't think there's much optimization of the leaderboard/plot available to you - if you find yourself faced with a tough choice between an X% winrate with 9 soldiers or a Y% winrate with 8 soldiers, I don't anticipate the leaderboard taking a position on which of those is 'better'.
Will that extra credit be worth...uh...at least 1.98 gp?
1I can't help but read this post as something like this:
- Current government mandates around children are very harmful to children.
- Enforcement of current cultural norms around children is very harmful to children.
- ???
- We need to add on and enforce these three new government mandates around children and these two new cultural norms around children.
There is one section arguing that schools are prisons that children hate and are miserable in. And then there is another section advocating for the schools to crack down harshly on children using their phones in school. I find this somewhat depressing.
This is true, but '80%' here means only 16/20. A result this extreme is theoretically p=0.005 to show up out of 20 coin flips...if you treat it as one-tailed, and ignore the fact that you've cherry-picked two specific material-pair options out of 21. Overall, I'd be very surprised if this wasn't simply randomness.