I juli var vi på ferie i #Viborg. Her besøgte vi bl.a. Flammen.

En større jysk by med respekt for sig selv har naturligvis en Flammen . Lige den her inkarnation er ikke meget for at indrømme det, men de er fra 2017 . Den store fordel ved dem er, at de har buffet med masser af kød, salat osv. Alle bør kunne finde noget, de kan lide. Vi skulle mødes med en håndfuld venner, og stedet passede fint. Og jeg fik prøvet at spise kænguru.

I juli var vi på ferie i #Viborg. Her besøgte vi bl.a. Nytorv 11.

Nytorv 11 , åbnet i 2017 , er såmænd et sted, hvor man kan spise. Og det gjorde vi så. (På billedet er det nr. 11 til højre.) Jeg mener, vi fik “PASTA TENERA (OKSEKØD EL. KYLLING): Skært oksekød eller mør kylling, portobello svampe i en fløde-trøffelsauce smagt til med trøffelolie, toppet med friskrevet parmesan”.

I juli var vi på ferie i #Viborg. Her besøgte vi bl.a. Tortilla Flats.

Tortilla Flats er jo sådan set bare en restaurant. Der er noget med 1980 , og så igen noget med 2012 . Men det er måske ikke så vigtigt.

Der er noget med John Steinbeck her: en roman . Og helt relateret til det et sted .

De serverede god mad og dejlig sangria (hvor jeg ikke kunne spore rødvin) på en dag, hvor vi godt kunne bruge sådan noget.

I juli var vi på ferie i #Viborg. Her besøgte vi bl.a. For enden af gaden.

For enden af gaden lå meget tæt på hotellet, så selvfølgelig fik vi både noget at spise og drikke der. (Et af de der firmaer, det er svært at finde et årstal på, men til sidst fandt jeg frem til 2010 .) Med retter komponeret af så mange slags ting, så var noget mad genialt og noget ikke. Og så havde vi glæde af en stor papegøje, der også er et springvand, og som udendørsdelen af restauranten bare er bygget op rundt om.

I juli var vi på ferie i #Viborg. Her kom vi bl.a. forbi kunstværket Interferenser.

I toget kom vi bl.a. gennem Fredericia, der har kunst på stationen. Sådan, noget stor kunst. 2 m høj (?), 5 m lang (?), og i 3-4 forskellige versioner. Og jeg var ved at blive drevet til vanvid af, at det var svært at finde en hjemmeside, der kunne fortælle mig noget om dimserne, såsom navn og kunstner. Vha. netværket lykkedes det at få nogle data, men processen var stadig indviklet. (Senere fandt jeg en lille smule mere kunstbeskrivelse .) Så jeg besluttede selv at tage nogle billeder. Pga. regnvejr blev det ikke så godt. Men I skal have dem alligevel! Her er 3 af dem altså, Interferenser fra 1972 af Gunnar Aagaard Andersen.

I juli var vi på ferie i #Viborg. Her besøgte vi bl.a. Skovgaard Museet.

Jeg har allerede nævnt domkirken, og der er en direkte forbindelse over til Skovgaard Museet . Stiftet i 1937 og flyttet ind i den nuværende bygning, det gamle rådhus, i 1981, så er der her et museum, der nærmest kun eksisterer for at huse diverse udstillinger, der har med Joakim Skovgaard at gøre, deriblandt hans skitser til vægmalerierne i domkirken.

Da vi var der, så var der også en særudstilling om Niels Larsen Stevns, en ven og kollega.

Og så alt det andet, bl.a. skabt af andre medlemmer af familien.

This week the #puzzle is: Can Your Team Self-Organize? #permutations #LongestIncreasingSubsequence

In a recent team building exercise at work, a group of people (including myself) was asked to quantify themselves in various ways. For example: “What outdoor temperature do you prefer?” No one reveals their answer at first. Instead, each person places a card with their name on an unmarked line, one at a time. In this example, folks who prefer higher temperatures would place their names farther right; folks who prefer lower temperatures would place their names farther left. However, the line is unmarked and doesn’t have any units.

Once all the names are placed on the line, their values are revealed. For example, a group of six might have generated the following numbers, in order from left to right on the line: 60, 67, 65, 74, 70, 80.

The team’s score is the length of the “longest increasing subsequence.” In other words, it’s the maximum number of elements in the list you can keep such that they form an increasing subsequence. In the example above, you can remove the 67 and the 74 to get the following increasing subsequence with four numbers: 60, 65, 70, 80. There are a few other ways to get an increasing subsequence of length four, but there’s no way to get a sequence of length five or more, so the team’s score is four.

Suppose a total of four people are participating in this team building exercise. They all write down different numbers, and then independently place their names at random positions on the line.

On average, what do you expect the team’s score to be?

And for extra credit:

Instead of four people, now suppose there are 10 people participating in the team building exercise. As before, they all write down different numbers, and then independently place their names at random positions on the line.

On average, what do you expect the team’s score to be?

Can Your Team Self-Organize?

Highlight to reveal (possibly incorrect) solution:

Spreadsheet Program Image

Method 1: Write out all the permutations, measure the longest increasing subsequence for each, calculate the average. This is what I did in the spreadsheet. Result: 2.41667.

Method 2: Create an image, a graph, with all the permutations and how one can move between them moving just 1 number. This gives me the number of permutations with subsequences of length 1, 3 and 4 (1, 9 and 1). For length 2 it gets messy. For them the number is “the rest” (24 – 1 – 9 – 1 = 13). Do the same calculation as above.

Method 3: Write a program to go through all the permutations. This replicates method 1. Same result.

And for extra credit:

Theorem

Do method 3, just with 10 members instead of 4. Result: 4.33496.

Apparently the Baik–Deift–Johansson theorem says something about this situation as well.

I juli var vi på ferie i #Viborg. Her boede vi på Palads Hotel.

Palads Hotel er svært at komme udenom. Etableret i 1935 på en enkelt adresse breder det sig i dag i flere nabobygninger også, og vi skulle (fra værelse 150) krydse gågaden for at komme til morgenmad. Det var dog også lidt en udfordring på første dag. Bookingen snakkede om Centrum 24-7. Kortet snakkede om Best Western. Og da vi så stod der, så sagde baldakinen Palads. Det var sådan set rigtigt alt sammen, men en kende forvirrende.

Badeværelset havde 5 brusere! Og sauna! Selve værelset havde et trin, der desværre lå et mørkt sted, når man lige var kommet ind, så det var muligt at falde. Men der var god plads, lækkert.

Apropos morgenmad! (Ja, et par af billederne er rystede. Men du ved jo godt, hvordan 2 slags juice ser ud, ikke?)

Og så spillede døren en lille melodi.

I am listening to the podcast 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back. In episode 1-8 they discuss Ready Player One.

372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back

Real or fanfic

The spreadsheet ! If you’ve seen it before: Now it has more formulas!

These next numbers can’t quite be trusted, as I haven’t got all the numbers. But the calculations are in place.

Summary of important advice

Consistency, continuity.

• An apocalyptic society with astounding delivery service.
• Genius takes forever to solve easy puzzle. Genius is stupid.
• Claiming to have done a task, that would take an impossibly long time.
• Anachronisms.
• The reason for Daito’s name.
• Suddenly changing style and using big words.
• Basing a book on quotes and references and then berating a guy for stealing a design.
• Going outside is overrated / reality is real.
• Halliday is a hero but also a monster?

Be exciting. Have stakes.

• Don’t interrupt the action with a flashforward.
• Don’t interrupt the big climax to tell us what happened seconds before.
• Don’t let the climax be an easy puzzle.
• Infinite ammo.
• No, action in a computer isn’t action.

Flow. Chekhov’s gun.

• Suddenly having a long talk about atheism.
• Masturbation screed.
• Deus ex machina.

Originality.

• Using clichés.
• Being boring.
• Drop Cops.
• Inventing new, bad ways to describe things.

Realism. Being human.

• The Sorentos walk: Walking for minutes without responding to a statement.
• 100s have died, nobody’s looking for survivors, jokes are told.
• Stereotypical Japanese.
• A ticking clock, nobody’s paying attention to it.
• There’s life, death and a fortune, and then a prize is chosen based on feelings.
• All big companies are evil?
• Art3mis changes her mind in seconds.
• Hinting at growth, that didn’t actually occur.

Variety.

• Repeating information too much.
• Repetition of phrases.
  • Cheshire smile.
  • Classic.

Details: not too many, not too few.

• Being weirdly specific, for no purpose, and not making sense. (Toothpaste.)
• Doing “it was like (vague example)”.
• Retelling Blade Runner.

Use words and phrases correctly.

• Using a “new” word that exists already with a very different definition.
• Seem to.
• I can only describe this as…
• Cheshire smile.
• Classic.
• Common technical language.
• A silent cheer.
• Geek film.

Ep. 1, intro + ch. 1-3

Advice

• ❎ Describing A by saying it’s like B. A variety of 80s dance moves.
• ❎ Cliche
• ❎ Repetitiveness
• ❎ Using a word already having a meaning. Gunter.
• ❎ Inconsistency. This post apocalyptic society functions really well.

Oops.

• Missing that Aech is pronounced “h”. Cleared up in ep. 2.
• Mispronouncing JK Rowling.

Ep. 2, ch. 4-8

Advice.

• ❎ Inconsistency. Taking forever to solve an easy puzzle.
• ❎ Inconsistency. Claiming to have done The List, but not having enough time to do so. (Quote below.)
• ❎ Bad extrapolation, progress going backwards.
• ❎ Including too many details.
• ❎ Boring.
• ❎ Clumsy.
• ❎ Using “seem to” when it obviously is.
• ❎ Repetitiveness. Cheshire smile. Every time.

Important quote:

“I watched every episode of The Greatest American Hero, Airwolf, the A-Team, Knight Rider, Misfits of Science, and The Muppet Show. What about The Simpsons, you ask? I knew more about Springfield than I knew about my own city. Star Trek? Oh, I did my homework. TOS, TNG, DS9. Even Voyager and Enterprise. I watched them all in chronological order. The movies, too. Phasers locked on target…I learned the name of every last goddamn Gobot and Transformer. Land of the Lost. Thundarr the Barbarian, He-Man, Schoolhouse Rock! G.I. Joe – I knew them all. Because knowing is half the battle!”

Ep. 3, ch. 9-13

Advice.

• ❎ Anachronisms.
• ❎ Interrupting the exciting bits with a flashforward.
• ❎ The climax is easily solving a puzzle.
• ❎ Is that how we define classic?
• ❎ Weirdly specific, doesn’t make sense. (Toothpaste.)
• ❎ The author stepping in: I can only describe this as…

Running gags.

• Goods and services. (The actual quote is goods and people.)
• Rig. Inflatable cow suit. A hell of a rig.
• Classic. (As in: Cline likes it.)

Source

Oops.

• Ogden/Odgen

Real or fanfic, 5:15

• Mike guessing
• Real. ❎ Fanfic. ❎
• Conor guessing.
• Real. ✔️ Fanfic. ✔️ Real. ❎

Ep. 4, Ch. 14-18

Advice

• ❎ The Sorentos walk. Walking for minutes without responding to a statement.
• 🤔 Doing the big villain scene and not comparing it to a movie, for once.
• ❎ Getting common technical language wrong.
• ❎ Unrealistic. Practically no reaction to 100s of deaths, no attempt to look for survivors. And jokes?
• ❎ Connection. Talking atheism suddenly.
• ❎ Culture. Japanese pictured as stereotypes. Lazy.
• ❎ There’s a ticking clock, but nobody pays attention to it.
• ❎ Explaining some stuff too much, other stuff too little.

Running gags

• Pulling a Pendergast.
• Avoiding lag. (Which wasn’t an issue before.)
• Wade’s father hit a liquor store. (Not actually liquor.)

Oops.

• Acsii text?
• Thinking Oasis is only for the few and only for play?

Real or fanfic, 7:48

• Mike guessing
• Fanfic ✔️ Fanfic ❎ Fanfic ✔️

Ep. 5, ch. 19-24

Advice

• ❎ Masturbation screed. No. Graphic. Unnecessary.
• 🤔 Hard to tell ignorance from jokes.
• ❎ Deus ex machina. No.

Running gags

• The stink tower. A smell interface.
• A pain interface.
• A suit with discreet openings.
• Wade is dumb.
• Stolen honor. Comparing oneself to a genius. Favorably.

Oops.

• Not knowing the phrase fade in.
• The episode is not 6 hours long.

Real or fanfic, 30:30

• Mike guessing
• Fanfic ✔️ Real ✔️ Real ❎
• Conor guessing
• Real ✔️ Fanfic ✔️ Real ❎

Ep. 6, ch. 25-30

Advice

• ❎ No: Mourning and grinning at the same time.
• ✔️ Continuity. (The reason for Daito’s name.)
• ❎ Retelling Blade Runner to readers who know it.
• ✔️ Stakes. As opposed to giving the hero infinite ammo.
• ❎ Life and death and a fortune. And then choosing a prize based on feelings.
• ❎ Calling a group the Drop Cops. Easy. Quick to write. Not good.
• ❎ Suddenly using big words.

Running gags

• Clinean: Giving the same information several times quickly.
• Clinean: Mentioning a problem, but it’s not important.
• Dystopian society works really well.
• A prosthetic testicle.
• Classic.
• Pulling a Pendergast.

Oops.

• Saying next assignment is through ch. 26.

Real or fanfic, 7:13

• Mike guessing.
• Fanfic ✔️ Fanfic ❎
• Conor guessing
• Real ❎ Fanfic ❎ Fanfic ✔️

Ep. 7, ch. 31-33

Advice

• ❎ Claiming to have spent more time than is available.
• ❎ Can’t tell intentional or unintentional jokes apart.
• ❎ Big companies are just evil?
• ❎ Saving the cat at the end of the book?
• ❎ Artemis changes feeling/opinion in seconds.

Running gags

• Dystopian society functioning well.
• No stakes.
• No lag.
• Cheshire grin.

Oops.

• n/a

Real or fanfic, 5:26

• Mike guessing.
• Real ❎ Fanfic ❎
• Conor guessing
• Fanfic ✔️ Real ❎ Real ✔️

Ep. 8, ch. 34-end

Advice

• ❎ Being oddly specific. (About the robot.) The details don’t matter, and aren’t consistent.
• ❎ Repetition of information and actual phrases.
• ❎ Being excited by action in a computer game.
• ❎ Commenting on lack of imagination.
• ❎ Describing action Wade didn’t see, clumsily.
• ❎ Describing something as being like a movie. Coming up with an original way to describe something, badly.
• ❎ A silent cheer?
• ❎ Interrupting the big climax to say what happened just before. He died, but first the head detached.
• ❎ The hero is a genius and stupid.
• ❎ Holy Grail is a geek film?
• ❎ Watts didn’t really learn anything during this story.
• ✔️ Continuity. The winner is now isolated?
• ❎ Reality is real, but going outside is overrated?
• 🤔 Halliday is a monster?
• ❎ Hinting at motivation and growth, but not showing it.

Running gags

• No lag.
• Art3mis might actually be Chuck.

Oops.

• Not recognising Wade could have discovered the right way to address the robot (shouting) beforehand.
• Not recognising Wade’s pregame ritual.
• Not recognising that an event Wade planned and probably heard about from witnesses later could be described in detail.

Real or fanfic, 4:50

• Conor guessing.
• “Fanfic ❎”

A recording of an alternate ending is mentioned?

I juli var vi på ferie i #Viborg. Her besøgte vi bl.a. Domkirken.

Viborg Domkirke er en lidt pudsig størrelse. På den ene side opførte man kirke fra 1104 , men der har muligvis ligget en tidligere. På den anden side blev denne til sidst revet ned stort set 100 % (det bedst bevarede er nok kælderen/krypten), og en ny blev indviet i 1876. Man forsøgte at ramme noget af den stil, den gamle havde haft, og man genbrugte nogle kvadre, men det er svært at komme udenom, at det er en ny kirke.

Da kirken skulle udsmykkes, så valgte man også at ramme en gammel stil, i hvert fald noget af vejen. Det resulterede i nogle interessante 2d-malerier. Efter sigende det største kunstværk en dansker (med samt hans assistenter) har stået for. Der er en virkelig grundig bog, som efter hjemkomsten blev slugt. Mums.

Vi havde gjort tingene i den rigtige rækkefølge. Et par dage før studerede vi nogle skitser til nogen af kunsten. Det var ligesom at samle appetit.

Vi gjorde os umage, så vi kunne få rundvisningen med. Den viste sig dog mest at være en sidde-ned-og-lytte.

Det sidste billede nedenfor er fra Erik d. 5. Klippings sidste hvilested. Eller i hvert fald hvilestedet for en håndfuld af hans knogler …