The Factory Floor

12:13 AM

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What minimal safeguards would this voting/electoral system require to be reasonably safe from manipulation? The question below is the eventual result of the thinking that went into this meta question that I asked a little while back: Would a question about a potential voting system be on-topic...

Mithrandir24601

1:13 AM

Wooo! After about 2 years on SE, I finally posted my first question :P

Shalvenay

@Mithrandir24601 haha, where?

Mithrandir24601

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Q: Purpose of using Fidelity in Randomised Benchmarking

Often, when comparing two density matrices, $\rho$ and $\sigma$ (such as when $\rho$ is an experimental implementation of an ideal $\sigma$), the closeness of these two states is given by the quantum state fidelity $$F = tr\left(\sqrt{\sqrt{\rho}\sigma\sqrt{\rho}}\right),$$ with infidelity define...

Shalvenay

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JDługosz

6:48 AM

Hello all.

Secespitus

8:41 AM

@Mithrandir24601 Congratulations :D

@JDługosz Good morning

How's your novel going?

Mithrandir24601

@Secespitus Thanks! :) Still no answers, but it's at least getting reasonably well upvoted :)

JDługosz

9:19 AM

@Secespitus It's terrible — still have trouble plotting “conflict”. But I've not worked on it for a while. A new idea though…

A YA/NE novel about a girl who has extreme hypertrichosis. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertrichosis

Secespitus

@JDługosz Ah, the "werewolf" disease. I would think that your target audience is quite narrow with such a protagonist. Would this be a realistic setting dealing with the insecurities of the person?

JDługosz

Basically, it runs in her family. But she had IVF gene editing to repair chromosome 8, but it didn't turn out as expected. Free from any related health issues, but she has a full coat of fur like the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus_Gonsalvus family. She tells people: it must be everyone else who's walking around with a defective chrom8, and this is the way Homo s. Is really supposed to look.

@Secespitus yes, but she’s not at all insecure. In 8th grade she made up her mind to be that way and promote herself as a celebrity.

Secespitus

Sounds like a good role-model-book (instead of the kind of self-help-book I initially thought of) for people who may be dealing with such insecurities. You will have a lot of "conflict" potential there when dealing with the "average beauty ideals" if you want to make her a celebrity.

JDługosz

She surprises the school guidance counselor with her list of career ideas: superhero vigilante; suoervillian; reality TV star; circus performer; …› he assumes she’s not taking the assignment seriously until she shows up for their meeting!

I need more ideas of what she lists, along with pros/cons. Some of them are indeed tounge-in-cheek, others are realistic (for her). She shows the councilor photos and explains how she has cousins already famous circus performers in Russia, and it is kind of the family business. She’s already a skilled acrobat.

@Secespitus yea; in high school she sucessfully becomes a trend setter and develops a significant online presence. Besides, when she says “…if you call me [referring to baby pictures] a plush toy, I'll rip your throat out.”in deadpan with a sweet voice, it disuades bullying.

Secespitus

9:40 AM

@JDługosz She should paint her nails blood-red to increase the anti-bullying presence.

JDługosz

Also need a reverse beauty and the beast situation when she starts college, the main timeline in the story. 19 and can’t get a date other than crazys? She's learned that anyone who seems attracted to her is not someone she wants to have around, so how can a genuine friend get past that?

Secespitus

@JDługosz When someone she would want to have around, but who would not want to be around her initially ends up in a Project team with her and has to spend time with her he sees past the fur?

@JDługosz Hair shampoo model

JDługosz

@Secespitus yes indeed. BTW she has a combo of nails and claws: thumb and index finger are normal tails, little finger is true claw, others show a progression in intermediate form.

@Secespitus I didn't understand that line.

Secespitus

@JDługosz "The beauty beast"

JDługosz

She also has crowns on her canine teeth that are prominent. I saw that on TV where people get vampire teeth from the dentist.

I’ll have to post some scenes soon.

Oh BTW I've joined LinkedIn. Would be happy to connect with people I know here.

Secespitus

9:53 AM

@JDługosz I don't have LinkedIn.

@JDługosz I'd love to read them.

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