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Sima Guang Hater

This is kind of where I have misgivings. Harassing someone personally over a quizbowl debate should be unacceptable whether it's on the forums, or via PM, or out of the blue on Messenger. Since we agree that it hurts the community to act that way, what's the recourse here, especially if it's a repe...

Sima Guang Hater

Despite clearly being one of the people called out, I support this post. If you actually have a problem with me, my posting style, or really anything else, you're welcome to message me in private instead of intentionally rankling me in discussion forums.

Sima Guang Hater

I'd've supported a post about that was simply about ambiguity or confusion ("a small mistake"), but I am being confrontational about it because you rarely get pushback when you post a cliche Mukherjee criticism of a science question (here, that would be "I was negged/didn't get it, s...

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You do not have to explain the entire context of every scientific theorem in order to have a clue that isn't "outright wrong". Yes, you don't have to list the entire context of every single theorem or result - I don't have to say "Assuming the laws of physics don't change over time&q...

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You may consider adding something about spherical symmetry to the Birkhoff's theorem clue in that tossup on flatness, because as it stands that clue is ambiguous or outright wrong. It is not outright wrong, and you know it. Birkhoff’s theorem states that the vacuum solution of the Einstein field eq...

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2. If you spotted any additional factual errors, or (as a moderator) any egregious typographical errors, please let me know. You may consider adding something about spherical symmetry to the Birkhoff's theorem clue in that tossup on flatness, because as it stands that clue is ambiguous or outright ...

Sima Guang Hater

I have my opinions I don't care to get into. I'd ask that you don't forget I'm still the best science player ever and my performance against Yale in the 2nd place game cemented that pretty well.

Sima Guang Hater

1. Is there a reason the situs inversus bonus didn't accept "midline" for the second part or "Kartagener syndrome" for the third (unless they were mentioned in the question and I didn't hear it)? Not that it matters a ton, but we 30'd, like, 3 bonuses all tournament and I want m...

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In fact, I have proof, because I broke my own rule and tried to get fancy and challenging with that tossup on the Poincare recurrence theorem which just didn’t play well. It didn't? I thought it was fantastic! I'll have more expansive commentary on the science (and other things) later, but in gener...

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My cowriters so far include:
Aakash Patel
Geoffrey Chen
Steven Silverman
Paul Lee
Jonathen Settle
Jaimie Carlson
Anson Berns
Fred Zhang
Sohum Shenoy
James Lasker (also editing Astro)
Justin French

Sima Guang Hater

I'm quite pleased to announce Lederberg Trinity, a science subject tournament to be played at ICT 2019. The distribution will be as follows (all tossups): 5 Biology 5 Chemistry 5 Physics 2 Astro 2 Math 2 CS 2 Data Science/Stats/Applied Math 1 Earth Sci Difficulty will be similar to previous incarnat...

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-The tossup on cervical mucus is confusing - ferning is usually used to determine whether amniotic fluid is present. There's even a rule of thumb for it, pool/dye/fern (though the question is correct, as I discovered later, that the actual ferning happens with a mixture of mucus and amniotic fluid) ...

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Thanks to NAQT hiring that PR firm, we're all getting lots of coverage. OSU: http://www.dispatch.com/entertainmentlife/20180412/quiz-bowl-offers-ohio-state-students-another-avenue-for-knowledge Penn: http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/video/category/news/3844109-upenn-students-preparing-for-super-bowl...

Sima Guang Hater

For a long time, I regretted going to Brown (being locked in early decision not by choice, long story) and not holding out for Harvard, Stanford, or Princeton. But I met Jerry there, and that made all the difference.

Sima Guang Hater

I think a regular tournament in early December is a good idea

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I support this proposal, at the very least for fall and possibly regionals. A history lesson - before 2008, ACF did its bonuses differently. You would not be told whether you got each part (slash what the right answer was), and then you discover at the end of the bonus whether you got each part and ...

Sima Guang Hater

The interim data suggests it might be time to discuss trending down regular difficulty to somewhere around EFT level.

Sima Guang Hater

As one of the original people in the conversation, let me outline the problems I saw and what I wanted to accomplish with this. This year, there were not enough regular difficulty tournaments in the fall, huge gaps between tournaments in the spring, tournaments that were confusingly named (CMST is t...

Sima Guang Hater

It's the end for me as well. I'll be moving to Yale to do an internship at Waterbury Hospital for a year, then to Nashville to start a dermatology residency and post-doc at Vanderbilt. I'll definitely have time to staff and play opens while I'm in Nashville (I hope), so looking forward to showing up...

Sima Guang Hater

Can I ask why you like this? To my novice eye brought up in an age with different standards, the first half of this seems kind of heavy on Eponymous Reactions, the syntax seems kind of strange to me ("by way of adding iodine"; "an example of one of these, the geminal type"), and...

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This functional group is the result of the Woodward Modification, which features substitution by a benzoate anion followed by hydrolysis. That reaction modifies the Prévost Reaction, which also produces these compounds from alkenes by way of adding iodine. The Upjohn method for producing them is si...

Sima Guang Hater

The Dear Prudence thing is an awesome idea and should implemented if for no other reason than that there'll be a way of aggregating issues people have. On that note, does anyone think it would be beneficial to have like an actual climate survey type thing? Anonymous of course. I think I could get m...

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Here is a small sampling of anonymous messages sent to me after I got really pissed at Will Alston for being a sexist piece of shit: -- "I'm not really a member of any stigmatized group and he [Will Alston] makes me not want to do things like volunteer for National tournaments." -- "...

Sima Guang Hater

Jakob is entirely correct on this issue. I've moderated an order of magnitude more tournaments than either of you (and have told Wilton Rao to shut up on more than one occasion), at a very good pace, and always manage to find time for the occasional "good buzz" or some laughter/merryment/m...

Sima Guang Hater

This is a non-obvious one of which I’m a huge offender: it’s extremely demoralizing to other players in the room (at practice, in tournaments, on your team, on the opposing team) when you consistently buzz on something before anyone else does and proceed to say something like “Wow what a bad buzz” ...

Sima Guang Hater

Hello quizbowl. I thought I could start a constructive discussion about in-game and out-of-game behaviors that may be offputting to new teams, old teams, or really anybody (but mostly new teams). I started this with some people on a Discord and I thought I would open it up further. A FEW BEHAVIORS I...

Sima Guang Hater

I suppose the issues feed off each other, but I was originally suggesting that more women in leadership positions within the quizbowl community would attract more women to the community. As an empirical matter, this has been correct in my experience (when Sarita Jamil became president our gender re...

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A forum thread every six months or so criticizing the lack of/treatment of underrepresented groups in qb is really, really frustrating when nothing comes of it. There seems to be a general consensus in this and other threads that a) there aren't enough underrepresented prominent players/editors/gen...

Sima Guang Hater

Tells people not to generalize based on their experience Generalizes based on his experience Not everyone shares your outlook, and not everyone is galvanized into getting better by trudging through a set with 8-lines of unbuzzable (to them) clues. There's a significant number of people who are tell...

Sima Guang Hater

...but the best teams already hit 23-25 PPB quite often on regular difficulty! You forgot this one, but UVA 2014 also got 25 ppb on Penn-ance. Your point is taken; I usually think of Penn Bowl as somewhere just above regular, but if that's the case Regionals this year was even harder. This year's p...

Sima Guang Hater

Given the experiences of Sebastian and other new-to-quizbowl people on ACF regionals, and given the fact that first buzzes seem to be occurring at around 1/3 of the way through the question...I actually see no problem with driving down "regular" difficulty to something just above where EFT...

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I have modified the post to fix these errors.

Sima Guang Hater

If you are a minority in quizbowl, what do you want quizbowl to look like? What is a safe community to you? I'm not white. It's not a card I particularly enjoy playing, but it pays the price of admission. I want a community where my and my friends' arguments aren't reflexively contorted beyond reco...

Sima Guang Hater

What exactly are you accomplishing by doing this at the University of Waterloo, a liberal institution of higher learning, represented in parliament by a Liberal of Indian Descent , surrounded by quizbowlers who almost universally support the rights of LGBT people? These are bad, BAD things to say, ...

Sima Guang Hater

The intersection between gender identity and notions of professionalism is a fascinating one that we're not going to be able to untangle in a forum thread; suffice to say, it is more than possible to appear professional while holding true to your identity, as the many LGBT people in the corporate wo...

Sima Guang Hater

There's an inevitable tension that arises in threads like this between professionalism and nonconformity. As a group of, for lack of a better term, "nerds", many quizbowlers (including myself) grew up with interests and obsessions that lie outside of the mainstream, and actively or passive...

Sima Guang Hater

Our copy of the set is quite janky and off-center, indicating that it was copied from a paper copy rather printed directly from the PDF. Furthermore, we only have one copy of it, and several of our members what to study it closely. I'll continue my annual plea to allow distributing electronic copies...

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-Cafe au lait spots are more commonly associated with neurofibromatosis than Fanconi's anemia. -The malonic ester synthesis starts with deprotonating the alpha carbon between the two ester groups; should carbanions be acceptable? -The leadin to the primer question is pretty obscure, and the next clu...

Sima Guang Hater

A great step forward.

Curious about one thing - what will the playoff format be now?

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Awesome!

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Ki67 labelling - not just for tumors.

Sima Guang Hater

There may be a useful statistic for cliffing - places in a tossup where an abnormal number of buzzes happen at once. That'd require figuring out what the standard distribution of buzzes across a tossup is though.

Sima Guang Hater

My predictions: -Hard parts were significantly harder than middle parts, leading to a "wall effect" around 20 ppb -Science bonuses were, on average, harder than literature bonuses -If you plot a histogram of players organized by # of first buzzes, it will have an exceptionally long tail th...

Sima Guang Hater

Still no ICT field expansion though, huh

Sima Guang Hater

Quizbowl Festivus will be held this year on actual Festivus, Saturday, December 23. As in recent past years this will consist of an open reading of guerilla packets on various themes (or not). There will be no “airing of grievances.” This year Festivus will move to quizbowl’s Discord server and begi...

Sima Guang Hater

Okay, the rest of this question clues good and important things, and of course seeing Hamilton-Zuk clued gave me great joy, as Penn Bowl is unwittingly playing into my devious plan to make UMN's EEB department dominate ecology / evolution quizbowl. But digging up the paper this clue is based on -- ...

Sima Guang Hater

This thread is wonderful and needed. In lieu of talking about my own experiences (maybe later), I'd like to offer some responses to things people have said. Googling around, it does seem like "find a hobby you enjoy" is often recommended as a treatment for situational depression. This is c...

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A full set of instructions was sent that Thursday night. The update sent Friday night consisted of packet passwords and an additional instructional video. Unfortunately I dont think that's soon enough. If I were hosting a tournament I'd want to know before even signing up to mirror that I was oblig...

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Here's another question; will NAQT have an official policy on employees or contractors who threaten customers?

Sima Guang Hater

Thread might be dead, but Arkham Horror and its various expansions are a ton of fun.

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