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Sima Guang Hater

At the very least, letting unvaccinated people play is a bad idea. The masking is a marginal benefit at best (and it's within reason to not enforce but strongly encourage it), though players should wear an N95 anyway.

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I edited the bio (surprise) and contributed to the other science subcategories. I'd like to thank quite a few people specifically, and if I forget to thank you don't be offended please. I'll blanket co-sign all the thanks above to start. - First, my co-science editors, Adam and Stephen, who offered ...

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Re: the gene drives bonus, as a former Drosophila geneticist the hybrid dysgenesis caused by P-element carrying males is well-known but a fairly deep cut, and the other clue in the bonus isn't particularly unique given that gene drives based on female sterility have also been developed. You also hav...

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Since this is a specific question, I'll put a separate post here to preserve this when the discord server for this tournament is deleted. I was not pleased with how the protest on the "land" question was handled, and I think it illustrates some negative tendencies in both question writing ...

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This set was very good overall. There were a lot of interesting and creative ideas, and I think the set hit its difficulty marks on average. There were occasionally harder questions, but I think that's appropriate for a set like this to keep people on their toes. I also appreciate that powers were g...

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PACKET 1: - The moon TU narrows it pretty early to sun or moon (mesoamerican stuff and vaguely-defined location) - "Flagstaff" and "facilitate research" seems harder than the clue after it for light pollution, since the Lowell Observatory being there is pretty famous in my estima...

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One issue I noticed this weekend is that the prompt lines were often very long or tortuous. This is a double-edged sword, because complex prompt instructions can make the game much more difficult, especially for newer moderators. I think it's worth hashing out the role of prompt lines and how they c...

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I was going to start a thread about overly tortuous bonuses and cognitive load, and I see that Henry had gone and done it already. I want to flesh out that part of the post a little bit more after my experience reading ACF regionals this weekend. First, with easy parts, I want to in particular call ...

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There were a series of papers in Nature published two days ago (Dec 23rd, 2021) suggesting that, without boosters, there's a significant drop in protection against Omicron compared to the original COVID D614G strain and delta (I would be happy to summarize the data in laymans' terms to any quizbowl ...

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Just wanted to post this, having seen it today and remembering this thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-WO73Dh7rY

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Schools and state health boards have records of vaccination, which can be easily obtained by students and collected by a TD with some planning and effort. Considering schools already collect vaccination data, and that data can be severed from the rest of a person's medical record, this shouldn't be...

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Perhaps face shields could be used to mitigate this issue? Face shields do not provide adequate protection The current CDC guidelines found here currently recommend universal masking in school settings, even for fully vaccinated people (much like Illinois seems to require). This seems like the leas...

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Out of curiosity, who wrote the E-M algorithm question? I don't know much about E-M algorithms, so I wanted to ask someone smarter/more knowledgable than me (e.g. the author) about how an answer of Data Augmentation would've gone on this, and what the differences in EM and DA are. I probably would'...

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As noted above, I was responsible for the other science, biology, and chemistry in this set, and had some input on the physics as well. First, some people to thank. I'd in particular like to thank Ike Jose for eagerly contributing several questions and expertise to the Other Science, with plenty of ...

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Was the part about accepting nucleus before "across" in the original set or was that afterwards ? My teammate buzzed around the Ran clue before "across" was mentioned and was negged because of answerline instructions, and his protest on that (which ended up mattering for game ou...

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But to understand the state you need to live in the state. No, I don't. The hospital I staff has received patients airlifted from Alabama because your ICU beds are near capacity. Even last month, your state had only 7% of its ICU beds available , which amounts to about 120 beds. And these aren't ju...

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I want to post this story in a separate thread, because I don't want to drown out other voices. You are free to ignore it at your leisure, and if you can only read n-1 threads on this forum, ignore this one please. At one point during my quizbowl career, I was at a party in which a younger woman bec...

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I cheated at this tournament. I looked up answers on my phone during this tournament on approximately 8-10 tossups, and would not have powered them otherwise. This was a severe lapse in judgement that disrespected and dishonored my competitors, my teammates (past and present), everyone who stood by ...

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I appreciate the fact that Adam, Will, Ike, and others have taken the time to analyze these stats, and if I were in their position I would have done the same. As much as it pains me to say, I agree with the conclusions reached by Adam and Will (that Chris' performance was very statistically anomalou...

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Oh boy the COVID hackathon. Ideally, the SAR would be the source of every quiz bowl set's answerlines. Obviously, each writer could adjust prompts or "accept ____ before"s according to the parameters of their question text, but this measure could save a lot of writing time and energy and r...

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I'm going to take on the futile task of trying to make a Grand Unified Theory of this thread. The original problem diagnosed in the OP was that many high school players do not continue in college. There are many reasons for this that can be broken down into a few categories. 1. Reasons that are inde...

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More later, but I'm going to emphasize the point that those of you posting in this thread saying that you enjoyed getting beaten by good players and it made you want to stick around are suffering from severe survivorship bias; chances are that does not apply to most people that pick up a buzzer.

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I love the idea of rebranding Regionals as a regional championship , and taking the C in SCT seriously. I wonder what it would take to help the culture shift toward valuing them, especially when so many other competitive activities (e.g. the NBA) are gradually devaluing their regular seasons. I thi...

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And yes, the most adrenaline-packed weekend of my high school career was ACF Nationals, back when the ppbs and ppgs were significantly lower than they are now, so I really disagree as well. I think that different people derive their quizbowl adrenaline from different aspects of the game. For some p...

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I appreciate your perspective, and making ACF Nationals easier, along with making regular diff tournaments easier, is a pretty good idea, esp if the superplayoffs can be made equal to the current ICT or ACF nationals difficulty. Two other points I want to make high school quizbowl has done a good jo...

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Dunno why Jacob thinks that people remember the Matt Weiner aspect of it, or why it should have the same valence as the Andy Watkins story. To me, it showed that the community can come together in a crisis and get work done (an amount of work that would ordinarily take weeks), and I'm quite proud to...

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professionalism sux lol I wonder if this utterly contentless post is going to be removed, taking bets. Anyway, having talked more with high school admins since my retirement, this is absolutely correct. Comparing something like Vanderbilt's ABC to a local high school tournament (the former of which...

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I enjoy writing Schrodinger bonuses where the e/m/h change based on whether you're coming at it from having studied old packets vs real knowledge of the subject. Other than the difficulty of marking that I support this idea.

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So is there going to be an online mirror of this or no, because I'd like to play this set live but no weekend is particularly good.

Sima Guang Hater

This is an incredibly poor justification for reneging on an established agreement, and your post is essentially 90% deflection and 10% apology. Not to mention that Will trying to turn the crowd against UMD isn't "stealing" the tournament in any sense.

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A Nature article by Marcus R. Munafò and George Davey Smith argues that responses to this phenomenon should focus on triangulation. In 2017, Susan Fiske drew controversy for alleging a form of “terrorism” by those writing about this phenomenon. This phenomenon is the focus of a “project” founded by...

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Packet 7 Bonus 8: HASTE imaging utilizes this process, which produces images in which the CSF is much brighter than those produced by its counterpart. For 10 points each: [10] Name this process that uses a longer repetition time and time to echo, but not as long as FLAIR. ANSWER: T2-weighting [acce...

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Packet 7 Bonus 8: HASTE imaging utilizes this process, which produces images in which the CSF is much brighter than those produced by its counterpart. For 10 points each: [10] Name this process that uses a longer repetition time and time to echo, but not as long as FLAIR. ANSWER: T2-weighting [acce...

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Could I see the tossup on the replication crisis, please

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This set has now been posted: https://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/2388/

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Academic resume with quizbowl in it, though it was only reviewed by my PI and not a panel of people.

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Sent you a PM, but am free to read for this.

Sima Guang Hater · Re: Fall Open @ UIUC (11/16/2019) Can't edit the spreadsheet

Can't edit the spreadsheet

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I'll play this

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Everyone in quizbowl, if you didn't know it already, should know that Will Alston was critical to the completion of NSC this year. Without him the set would either not have been completed or been in much worse shape than it was. Only do work for which you are adequately rewarded and compensated. It'...

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Small update - Linda Greene asked me for the set for NASAT prep. I'm fine with this (and would solicit optional donations for its use in this manner). Please get in contact with me if you're a NASAT coach/player and want to use the set to prepare.

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2. I'm more than willing to mirror this tournament (for the same fee, 15$/player) at HSNCT, PACE, and/or online (after NSC), depending on the amount of interest. I've had some requests to mirror it at HSNCT in particular. I've added tabs to the spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1w...

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Sjenk225 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2019 11:22 pm Anyone have recommendations for local co-op RPGs?

Secret of Mana

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Why is an open tournament being run on a novice-oriented set? It's a college-level novice set that's entirely appropriate for an HSNCT-level field, targeted at the 4-5 teams worth of national-qualified players from this area for whom it is appropriate. Also this same team ran a large, successful to...

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TheScientists wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 2:37 pm Due to time constraints - we will be using older, obscure packets for the WC and finals game in order to not cause further delay.
Due to this - we will not upload any packets publicly.
Thank you for understanding!

Sounds like you need a bailout.

Sima Guang Hater

The folder appears to only have the scoresheets--I know Ophir has set up some system where you feed the scoresheets and packets into something and it generates a spreadsheet of advanced stats (in this case just stats by category, since the buzzpoints are lost with the hotel basement's lack of wifi)...

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Jaimie Carlson should be on your literature poll

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I guess the meta-question I have is - what kind of stats distribution do you want to see at nats? Having been privy to a lot of conversations among non-championship flight players and teams at this years nationals, there is at least a significant plurality that thinks that a finals that ends with ne...

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Oh right, for my neg I buzzed on the MGMT methylation clue and negged with glial cells (after being prompted and insisting I was right) because it's not entirely established that GBM comes exclusively from astrocyte precursors, just GFAP+ cells (which apparently includes neural stem cells as well)....

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Benin Rebirth Party wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 2:48 amI think the set could have been just a tiny bit harder overall without some of the incredibly harder stuff (like that Flow Cytometry Thing)

I'll reply more to the distributional concerns soon, but come on man you guys have a mass cytometry core!

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