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[gfish]

This is making the rounds, but it was so cool I just had to jump on the bandwagon: a really impressive analysis of Choose Your Own Adventure books. I would have liked to see a bit more rigorous graph theory analysis, rating them by how balanced their trees are etc, but still just excellent. Somewhere I still have my copy of The Cave of Time, maybe in a box somewhere in Spokane. I should dig that out sometime.

In other news, I'm actually pretty excited by some of the last minute thesis results I got yesterday. Kind of as a lark and kind of to fill space, I decided to look at the distribution of sampling windows sizes selected in the randomized tree generation process. There were some slight trends towards certain sizes and offsets, so I did a complete run where the pool of random samples from which the trees get to choose were biased towards these distributions. And it worked! Not only did the output improve by ~0.5% but frame evaluation times dropped by up to a second. AND the evaluation times dropped in a really interesting way that ties into discussion of frame evaluation times from earlier in the thesis. Not bad for such a simple idea.

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[solarbird]

Choose Your Own Adventure books
♥! I published one of those in my first fanzine! No, really! It was a regular issue of the 'zine except along the bottom of every page under a horizontal bar was four lines of the ADVENTURE! There was also a single-full-page entry with a big illustration so people knew where to start. That was fun. ^_^

[gfish.livejournal.com]

I once did one on a MOO mailing list. Except I think I miscalculated the post numbers so it didn't really work.