QELO = Raw Score * Completeness * Competitiveness * Scaling factor (100) Raw Score: Your Owns + bonus points(BPs) Completeness is one of two game level characteristics. A game with 64 out of 64 questions answered correctly is assigned a completeness of 1.0. …

This post is for my MIMIR quiz friends. It may not make any sense to others. I’ve done some analysis on MIMIR scoring across leagues and come up with an Elo like rating system, QELO, that captures full relative performance in a given MIMIR match as opposed to the currently…

Check out eldrow.io for context. I have had a few queries on Eldrow rules especially with respect to repeating letters in the ‘root word’. Keep in mind that we are reverse engineering a candidate answer from a root word, as opposed to the other way round. Let’s start with a…

“When the gates are all down and the signals are flashin’ The whistle is screamin’ in vain And you stay on the tracks, ignoring the facts Well, you can’t blame the wreck on the train No, you can’t blame the wreck on the train” — Don McLean The root of…

Sunil Gavaskar once said that he took a fresh guard after every innings milestone to let the opposition know that he wasn’t done yet. I’m 50 not out today. It has been anything but a chanceless innings. I’ve been beaten in the air, dropped in the slips, hit on the…

Have you come here for forgiveness? Have you come to raise the dead? Have you come here to play Jesus, to the lepers in your head? - One, U2 I woke up this morning and smiled. Over three decades of struggling to get out of bed until I exhausted both…

There are some funny comedians whose jokes you can’t remember in any detail. They leave you with a series of stories and laughs instead of a bunch of punch lines. Vir Das is one of them. I don’t remember a single joke of his, but I watch his specials and…

We’ll take your “free” market after you’ve dispensed reparations for the atrocities and injustices that got you to a place where you could talk about “free” markets in the first place. PS: All politics is identity politics and everyone who has a problem with it is both privileged and blind.

Socrates famously said that an unexamined life is not worth living. I find the statement elitist, dismissive and more importantly, joyless. He clearly tried to hem and lock people with his philosophy! To me, happiness is core purpose of human life and possibly of life in general. What you find…