Learned League

Yeah, me too! I was on a tear and have since lost my last 6 in a row (lol?) but should finish in the top eight in C.

good season here too, i was expecting to get knocked back down to C but i've held my own

Pretty good season yes, was in promotion placing after MD 22, with all in my own hands really, but then went on a fair loss to the rundle leader followed by a none-too-flattering 2(3)-6(3) defeat. I seem to be guaranteed a 4th or 5th placing in Meridian B. (Promotion isn't totally off the table I guess, considering the occasional higher-rundle attrition, but I'm not too bothered; contending in the top of B certainly has its charmes vs struggling against relegation in A.)

charmes even!

anyone have any very best wrong answers they wanna rep for? i can't even get thru them, so many of them wouldnt even be worthy of a temporary dn change on ilx which to me is the bar u have to pass for a VBWA

i was serious about "IM Cute" which in retrospect was more clever than "Tweet Cute" imo

Someone on the boards posted Meet ICQute, which is a great deep cut.

ninth-highest TCA, second-lowest CAA. so i finished second

the person whose stats i posted above won the rundle for the fourth time in the last seven seasons and got *eleven* more correct answers than i did. utter savage

5th, third highest TCA

4th, finishing with a 9(5), which is always kinda fun. Highest TCA; 109 would even be top-half in the A rundle it seems.

8th worst TCA, third best CAA, and second best defensive efficiency are why I ended up and overall.

Btw, the Rivers, Lakes, etc. is another deck I recommend. I almost got the Irrawaddy question right because of it (I went with Salween).

What's up with the fingerprint?

With 18 categories, the total number of combinations is over 6 quadrillion possible orderings, so the theory is that with some tens of thousands of players, each one has a unique order of categories (ranked best to last or whatever).

? i'm missing the context.

From the thread that kicked things off:

It occurred to me that, with 18 LL categories, the number of ways to order the categories far, far exceeds the number of active LL players (or humans in general). In principle, then, everyone might be expected to have a unique category ordering by Q% and that be a "fingerprint" of sorts.

Then Thorsten in a fit of procrastination decided to add it to the site, and now it's a thing.

yikes, okay.

It's hard for me to imagine that *no one* else shares my fingerprint (6BGE147FA8D9I2H53C, if you must know), given that there are some correlations between strength in some categories and weakness in others. But maybe!

Wait, Thorsten’s fingerprints only use letters.

Just submitted the draft questions for my 1DS. Feel kind of weird.

Looking forward to the 1DS this week that one of you smithed.

And just got my first feedback from a tester. Good stuff.

Thanks James! We're still polishing it a bit, so we're cutting it close.

Think I just read on the magic spreadsheet that one has to turn it in two days before it goes live.

Yep! And just submitted, so it's all ready to go.

Is yours "Dude, Where's My Car?"

Ha, no. Did you use the Bulk Uploader?

I did (definitely beats copy-pasting a dozen times). It can however be a little wonky, but trying again seems to iron out the wrinkles.

Mine is not live until May.

Yeah, there are some subtleties to the Bulk Upload, but overall seems to work pretty well.

By the way, may I ask how many people ended up giving you feedback?

12/12 for the second one; the first one I think was 11/12.

Thanks. How long did it take from them all to come in after you submitted?

For the second one, we got about half of them within the last few days before the testing deadline (though a whole bunch right after I submitted the drafts). They definitely came in in waves.

I'm not as sure about the first one because forks took the lead there (and only one smith gets notified as the feedback comes in).

Dribbled in till a few day before iirc

Thanks. Did you actually get an email when someone submitted?

Yep

I have created a couple of Alpaca Farm quizzes, which I had fun with, but maybe I should try to do an official 1DS at some point. It's always just seemed like a long and complicated process.

Maybe, but there’s just something about seeing something you wrote come out in that format.

My 1DS comes out May 3. I have 11/12 feedback right now (the 12th still has a couple weeks and I personally almost always submit my feedback on the last day so I can't really complain).

Smithing 1DS's is definitely a time consuming and pretty thankless process but it's one of my favorite things about LL. Not something I would do if I didn't find writing and tinkering with questions fun though.

Same here, even though this is my first one. Yours looks interesting, mine comes out two days later.

Anyway, who else is signed up for the American Revolution ML?

Me. I think I'm going to do all four MLs during this off-season, which may be a first for me.

Considered that, but not really feeling 21st Century Literature.

That's probably the one I'm most excited about. (LGBT 2 should be good, too, but not as novel since I did LGBT 1.)

today's "instructions" is INSANE

My brane hurt! Some people have too much time on their hands!

I ain't reading all that

It’s like the worst excesses of the NPL Enigma puzzles

xp yeah i accidentally wasted like well over an hour on that and im pretty mad at myself for it

like that's time i dont have doing a thing i dont particularly like and am not particularly good at lmao

I remember doing the Pen and Paper Math one weekend and spending a lot of time and getting maybe 9/12, maybe one stupid error and two others that were quite hard computations then seeing how many people got 12/12 and wondering how much time they had spent or how in practice they were.