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Re: Terrifying Karthik
There are so many posts in this thread, that while Joe Johnson was reading through them all, he got thirsty and drank all 12 cans of mountain dew himself.
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FIRST, Work, & Home have conspired to postpone the judging... ...until now.
I am going to kind of live tweet this thing. 100+ message to get through. Let's see how it goes.
So... ...where does that leave us? I am going to make a clean post to announce the winner. Stay tuned... Dr. Joe J. |
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There were a LOT of great points made in this thread, TOO MANY to be fair to all the great folks who really put some thought into what they wanted to say.
I want to say that it is my sincere hope that a few more teams really put thought into two particular possible futures: 1) MAYBE your team can have a great season being something other than a Limbo Robot. You may be better off if, by not having to go under the Low Bar, you are able to give your robot other capabilities that you would not be able to have otherwise. 2) IF YOU ARE GOING TO LIMBO ANYWAY, make sure that that is not the ONLY thing you can do. Don't be that robot. Add value to the alliance beyond the low bar. Now for the moment you've all be reading for. And the winner is... Andrew Schreiber. He made a lot of good points but for me he sealed the deal with this quote: Quote:
Andrew, it didn't figure into the decision but you've disavowed the Mt. Dew prize (I don't understand some people) saying you'd prefer judge referrals for the Boston District. You shall have them sir. PM me and we'll work things out. Well done everyone. Cheers, Dr. Joe J. |
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I was tempted to say something about giant balloons being terrifying ...
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The idea was to contrast this kind of task with the low bar, which dominates the design process with brutal tradeoffs in a way that these tasks just don't, not to imply that Scaling will be the sole deciding factor on Einstein. Scaling was a particularly handy way to illustrate the relative worth of the low bar because so many teams are claiming "Low bar is more important than scaling" through their designs and priorities, and a good scaler should have a much more consistent expected value for thee act of scaling than a shooter. Also we're definitely worried about struggling as well . We think that we've approached the tradeoffs inherit to our strategy in a way that plays to our team's strengths and mitigates some of the chronic problems we expect many low bar machines to experience. Scarcity did play into our decision making process, and we expected low bar machines to be far less common than recent polls have suggested. We're locked in now and it's going reasonably well (I'm feeling quite a bit more confident in our design, and by extension, many other teams' designs, than I was when I made that post), but if we knew then what we know now, we may have still gone down a different path.Last edited by Joe G. : 13-02-2016 at 12:17. |
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Thats a weird way to spell my name... But yeah dat quote doe. |
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I know the competition is over, but I feel the need to share the real reason that Karthik is terrified:
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Plot twist: regardless of the results of the poll, Karthik would find them terrifying
Karthik is always terrified |
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