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Card Game: Compromise The Missionary

Compromise The Missionary To play Compromise The Missionary, hold out all 7’s. Shuffle three 7’s and place them in a small draw pile face down. Hold 7 of spades face up. Deal five cards each.  Assessing Red suits at positive integers, and Black suits as negative integers, use your cards to contrive the sum of seven as many ways as possible. Score each successful summation as 5 points on a graph of potential X’s. Represent the first two sums as the crossbars of the “X.” Score successive summations as a dot in a side of the “X.” So each completed X adds up to 30 points (like many domino games). Cards used in the summation(s) go into a discard pile. Draw to fill a hand of five cards. If you choose, you can neglect to devise a summation. Discard at least one card in the discard pile and draw to fill a hand of five cards. Whenever a player plays an Ace, he draws from the 7’s pile. If he plays the Ace of Spades, he automatically collects the 7 of Spades. The hand ends with scoring the su...
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That’s An Answer, Not A Pencil!

This is an open question. It represents a shortcut to the cryptanalyst between multiple rounds of a cipher algorithm. Represent the cipher as y = f(c) in two dimensions.  For superior ciphers, f(c) is NOT A GROUP. Question: can we devise a y = Ef(c) in three (3) dimensions such that Ef(c) IS A GROUP? Then we apply some creative calculation f(c) and Ef(c) to derive z1 and z2. Then we attempt to use z2 to compute (for example) Ef(z2) == f(f(f(f(f(z1))))), effectively skipping 4 rounds. Is there a way to CALCULATE, or DERIVE these formulae?
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An Application Of Schroedinger's Cat.

The construction of the Schroedinger’s Cat paradox finds application in the discussion of Intellectual Property . If an idea was the Cat, then measurement would be analogous to evaluating the idea for merit, and the quality of life would be analogous to fitness or marketability  of the idea under consideration.
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How to best the Bitcoin cryptocurrency lotto;

A  hi-speed box is prerequisite; emphasis on read/write speeds on duel 4T SSDs. 32 GB Hi speed RAM; overclocked Core I5 12600 or Core I7 22700. I estimated 32 or 64 units… An ASIC is a circuit that provides a hash value that (critically) BEGINS with &h0000. Time to calculate/randomly poll for these is the intractable problem. Example: When you play TX lotto, EVERY entry has same probability. Buuut; if you play A SINGLE unique entry repeatedly, it has the same probability the FIRST time. However, thereafter, the winning solution becomes constrained to be x + (n) / total possible. Since the requirement to win BECOMES x2 AND ~x1. Else the entry would have won before.  While this is statistically insignificant, we can capitalize within the cryptomining protocol. After completing a bid, whether successful or unsuccessful instead of discarding the HASH, we can proceed to play the same number again. Starting with &h0000, and hashing once per round, as prescribed. But to ...
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A consistent maximum size for data compression

In February, I wrote about an experiment in data compression. The resulting algorithm is lossless and has an unanticipated virtue: it yields a compression that is consistent across all data types, as it indiscriminately reduces it to the type integer as a primary step. This results in a theoretical max value for storing bulk data. While some data types may respond better to specialized compression strategies, ALL data reduces by the SAME ratio when considered by [modified] "Golumb" compression.  This can apply to storage estimates.
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Is Listing Axiomatic?

Choices in behavior are more pronounced when they result in pain from consequence (mental anguish) or corporal discipline (physical pain response.) I asserted that this results in a binary tree of possible characters in any individual. However, some choices are not strictly binary, resulting from a list instead.  Machiavelli's book, "The Prince," is authoritative for it's use of binary logic. However, the necessity of "Discourses On Livy," points out that The (unabridged) Prince is not exhaustive of all government.  I theorize the omissions are the result of dichotomies based on lists, which are divided into a single major choice contrasted against all others in the list. Information not in The Prince would be found in subsections treating on list headings abbreviated under an umbrella choice that is contrasted to a single opposing option. I hasten to admit that speaking authoritatively on these would be challenging, but also erudite and worthwhile. However,...
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Control groups in Nature v Nurture studies need to include IDENTICAL ENVIRONMENTS.

In my book "Ethan And Emma Teach Dating," I asserted that choice has more influence in forming character than genetics (nature,) OR environment and stimuli (nurture.) Extant research on Nature v Nurture has focused on identical twins in disparate environments. (Identical nature in differing environments.)  To improve this, I suggest studying identical twins raised in IDENTICAL ENVIRONMENTS. We commonly observe is that, while (identical) twins exhibit an observable closeness that ordinary siblings do not, they are RARELY IDENTICAL in Character (behavior in response to identical stimuli.)  This should lead us to argue that neither Nature NOR Nurture is uniquely dominating in the formation of character - that force of mind that drives behavior.
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