Question
A Soviet researcher working with expert blacksmiths produced “cyclograms” while studying “intertrial variability” in this phenomenon. For 10 points each:
[10m] Nikolai Bernstein observed “repetition without repetition” in what phenomenon? Cheaper by the Dozen couple Frank and Lillian Gilbreth used “therblig” units in studies named for time and this phenomenon.
ANSWER: bodily motions [or bodily movements; accept motor skills or motor learning; accept kinesis or kinesiology; accept motion studies or time and motion studies]
[10e] Bernstein proposed that motor skills require “freezing” these things, which name the problem of “motor equivalence.” In many sciences, this three-word term refers to the factors that may vary independently in a system.
ANSWER: degrees of freedom [or DOF]
[10h] The degrees-of-freedom problem illustrates this paradox in AI research, which notes the relative simplicity of reasoning compared with sensorimotor skills. It is named for a scientist who imagined AI flooding the “landscape of human competence” and wrote Mind Children.
ANSWER: Moravec’s paradox [accept Hans Moravec]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 13 | 10.77 | 85% | 0% | 23% |
Data
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | The Empire Bikes Back | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Lisan al-Quib | Les Missourables | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| The Jeam Team | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Oldest Men in the World | BHSU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | We Need New Names | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | var merchants | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |