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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Apr 2018
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    This is excellent. I got both wrong answers (19, 26) before getting the right one. Lovely abstraction leaks.pic.twitter.com/WOhpNGx0Qf

    10:39 PM - 9 Apr 2018
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      2. Jadel‏ @hce_ 9 Apr 2018
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        Fun! 80.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Apr 2018
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        I got 38 which I think is correct, how do you get 80?

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      2. Pat Larsen‏ @PatrickLarsen 10 Apr 2018
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        Err, too many undefined variabkes to solve for

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Apr 2018
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        Nope, solvable

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      2. Diane Foley‏ @Tantele 10 Apr 2018
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        1. Remove the visual confusion to get 2+3+3×11 (easy) 2. Apply order of operations, multiplication first (had to look it up) 2+3+33=38

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Apr 2018
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        You had to look up order of operations?? You’ve been in management too long 😆

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      2. Navin Kabra‏ @ngkabra 10 Apr 2018
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        Dueling Occam's Razors? Given an arbitrary integer from 0 to 100, what's the simplest explanation for producing that integer as the answer? e.g. bunch of bananas = 4; clock = position of hour hand; visible polygon = 9, occluded polygon = 3. And we get ... 42!

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Apr 2018
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        Yeah, that’s a good term for it. 38 does seem like a point of maximal fit of some sort, but there’s consistent solutions that explain less by assuming less. Occam may not be the right aesthetic here. I’m now thinking Leibniz principle of sufficient reason: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sufficient-reason/ …

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