Possibly it’s an illusion or Someone Else’s Problem Field (Perception Filter) such that the evil is still there, most people just don’t see it because they don’t want to.
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Exactly. It doesn’t replace sleep, but (according to the US military study) removes all the “can’t concentrate”, “can’t stay alert”, “uncoordinated”, and “stupid decisions” effects of no sleep.
Exactly the sort of quote I was looking for. The philosopher is asking about absolute truth, the engineer only cares about finding parameters for a model of reality that works well enough for what you need it to do.
Harry may be a compulsive secret keeper, but he also uses the scarlet letter technique a bit too often and Quirrel probably realizes that.
Cycle analysis is basically drawing out a graph (nodes and edges) of what beats what. For standard Rock-paper-scissors you get a graph that looks like this:
ROCK -------> SCISSORS -------> PAPER
^-----------------------------------------------|
In systems that aren’t balanced like the sword and armor problem here you can use it to decide what choice to make by giving each node a probability value based on how many people in game use that and then the best choice would be the node with the greatest (sum of probabilities on outgoing nodes) - (sum of probabilities on incoming nodes).
I’d say a good engineer would reply: No observation is true, but truth doesn’t matter if it works.
That looks like what I got. It’d be interesting to do a cycle analysis like you do with Non-transitive Dice.
This is the correct equation for any attack pair. Now just need to do a 16-16 table to see what wins over what. I’ll do it during lecture tomorrow.
I’m thinking that the author, like most of us, really believes that if you know what’s happening you might have some marginal chance to avoid the effects of these tactics, even if he claims otherwise.
The sense of doom may just be a filled-with-fantasy Harry brain’s interpretation of the Voldemort-emotion/proximity as opposed to the pain that cannon!Harry felt. MoR!Harry already has a far different view of things due to his fiction reading (just look at his interactions with Hermione), why not a different mapping of an unnatural sense?
It also could be that the Basillisk has some sort of genetic memory (or DNA-based cognition ala the Super Happies!) such that the monster in the book is not the original monster but rather a great-great grandwhelp of the original monster. This would allow any heirs to kill their specific monster while the line (and thus memories) are preserved.
(This is of course all predicated on Slytherin realizing that his descendents may be nasty enough to keep knowledge from others by any means possible).
I use VLC’s playback speed (fine) options. Right now I’m taking a few recorded lecture classes and I can get them up to 1.4x without any difficulty in understanding or comprehension.
I think you’re looking for the difference between Sentient and Sapient. The problem is that they are often conflated to make an awful mess of things.