#include "standings.h"

The Daily Camera had a news article about the afforementioned contest, with several factual errors. First, there were four CU teams, mine (not Ginny's) placed 10th (her team got 9th) and that was with 2 solutions, not half. Furthermore, there's a full color picture of me in my shark hat, hand-over-mouth staring at a computer screen, with a teammate in the same position, sans oceanic head animal. However, the article online doesn't have the picture. I'll have to scan it for y'all. For some odd reason, no team got all 8 right, and the Texas Tech team was the only with 7. The top CU team got 4th (no Hawaii trip for them, unfortunately) and my team got about 34th (whee!). For the curious, check out the problem set at the contest homepage.

Better selling than the Celestial Homecare Omnibus

No way. It was an actual book. And it will actually be published.

Int

Intelligence is focusing on that which is related to the task at hand.

Genius is just a twisted sense of relation.


explanation {
Word problems are all about ignoring what's irrelevant and tying things together. When you're thinking about how to solve a physics problem, you don't insert facts about the War of 1812. A logic "AI" that merely enumerated premises and tried all possible rules in an attempt to reach the destination doesn't demonstrate intelligence. When a person approaches a logic problem, they have a sense of what steps are needed, what premises are relevant, etc.

Genii are often able to bring in ideas from quite different domains to solve a problem. Furthermore, they tend to carve new ground within a field by combining local elements that nobody else had thought to.
}