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Small question/clarification on the Abramović bonus: we answered " Rhythms " for the first(?) part, which asked for the series of pieces that includes Rhythm 0 , and our answer was ruled incorrect. The series is attested ( https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/5177 ) to be called Rhythms , so...

I believe the lead in referred to Markov blankets, which I don't think are really "blankets of Markov chains" +1. I know the first clue of that tossup only as a "Markov blanket", which was confusing since "Markov" isn't a structure ("Is there another term for this...

Could I please see the tossup on "descriptions"? I buzzed in near the clue about the iota operator with "referring expressions" and wasn't prompted. While they aren't exactly the same, they are probably similar enough for a prompt (I fully accept my neg, as I admittedly wouldn't ...

Thank you for not making the linguistics in this set another instance of Phonology Bowl. I greatly enjoyed the semantics and pragmatics content.

I'll also chime in my support for the Rust tossup. The early(?)-mid clues we heard seemed to be discussing its desirable memory safety properties, which was enough context to make a semi-confident buzz. As Ike said, Rust is becoming more popular, and the reasons for its rising popularity are to do w...

I'll write a packet as well.

I drew a neg on the "debugging" tossup with an answer of "profiling" based on the Valgrind clue. While it is certainly true that Valgrind can be used for debugging, its other major use case is profiling, and indeed this is the use case I am most familiar with (so presumably other...

The seeming list of definitions must have just been a gameplay artifact then. I agree that the clues refer to very important ideas. So I must have just mis-parsed something along the way. I will say that when I heard the knowledge question, “box operator” and “positive introspection” stuck out rathe...

Could you post the tossups on "knowledge" and "meaning"? I found these questions hard to parse at game speed since they seemed to just be lists of semanticists and their various (dense) definitions of the given concept (this claim could be factually incorrect, but it was my impre...

I thought the CS in this set was much better than what I’ve seen in recent sets. I appreciated the focus on important concepts and people rather than on, e.g., various uses of [certain keyboard characters] in a few programming languages. The latter kind of question feels like a vocab quiz in that it...

Tossup 11: The first sentence isn't quite accurate; e provides the value of x, not the "largest value of x to the power of 1 over x". Perhaps reword as "...which asks for the value of x which maximizes x to the power of 1 over x". I will say this is a good example of breaking th...

Will Mason, Ben Zhang, Naveed Chowdhury, and myself will be playing as a team.

Will Mason and I are still looking for two more people to join our team.

Will Mason and I are also interested in playing.

I will be playing for Wash U in St. Louis next year.

Hey Joe, How will practices be set up? Will it be broken up by players' skills/level, tournament-style team play, regular team play (like HS practice) or solo play? And I was also wondering what kinds of sets you'll be running (HS, College, etc.)? Sounds like an awesome opportunity to not get rusty!...