king of research

What is ILX good at? Looking up stuff on the internet. Also knowing stuff! Also being amazing.

What is needed is a competition! It is sort of based on the fashion contests, from Miss Bimbo. There is a casting round! If you make it through casting, you are in the competition! Then people are eliminated each round, until there is a winner! The winner will be Alba.

The skill is research, on the internet, which is fun!

Casting Round
To progress through this qualification round, you must post a city with a population between 400,000 and 500,000. Also a link, as a citation! The deadline is 9PM Tuesday. (Obviously it doesn't count if someone has posted the city before).

Here is an example:
According to wikipedia, Omaha has a population of 432,921.

stfu

Bristol has a population of 416,400

Sacramento is approx. 446,721.

Edinburgh has a population of 430,082 or 471,650, depending on which page of the wiki you go for.

why does this feel like a marketing ploy

benefit of doubt until proven wrong imo

oh - this will be short with only 3 people :(

i'll play even though i don't get it. cleveland has 438,042.

Oakland, CA has 401,489.

I don't see many linked citations on here.

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFPopulation?_event=Search&_name=oakland&_state=04000US06&_county=oakland&_cityTown=oakland&_zip=&_sse=on&_lang=en&pctxt=fph

manchester with 458,100

mine is from wikipedia ok

Bratislava has a population of 428,672

Qualifiers for Round One:

LJ
JayMC
Emil.y
Harbl
King Kong Vs Godzilla
Call All Destroyer
Salsa Shark

In rounds one - albums are to be named!

The album must have: at least two songs with animals (not counting humans) in the title. But two songs must not have animals in the title, also, so people can't just post farmyard songs.

The albums must be cited, on the internet! If everyone succeeds in this, the contestant who succeeds last will be eliminated.

Here is an example!

Ha, that's quite easy. An Electric Storm - White Noise contains the songs 'Here Come the Fleas' and 'Firebird'.

Please provide citation for animal 'firebird'!

It contains the word 'bird' in it - a bird is an animal. Wiki's disambiguation page also lists birds with colourful plumage under firebird: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebird. But if that's not good enough, then I can find another.

Aluminum Group, Pelo

1. Pussycat
3. Goodbye Goldfish, Hi Piranha
10. Sermon to the Frogs

http://www.amazon.com/Pelo-Aluminum-Group/dp/B00005171Z

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Loves_a_Nut

do i get to play if i answer both qns? i didn't see this last night

It contains the word 'bird' in it - a bird is an animal. Wiki's disambiguation page also lists birds with colourful plumage under firebird: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebird. But if that's not good enough, then I can find another.

The second is more convincing! But... none of the birds on their individual pages say they are called firebirds, that I could see :(

(To be fair to UK and US sleep - if all 8 entries come in within 24hours, I will post a harder round instead of eliminating!)

Although I do think 'Firebird' is a valid entry, I can also propose Louis & Bebe Barron's Forbidden Planet, which contains the songs 'A Shangri-La in the Desert/Garden with Cuddly Tiger' and 'Robby Arranges Flowers, Zaps Monkey'. If you're not taking soundtracks, then you should really be more specific in your requests! (Also, it is an amazing record in its own right, I have actually never seen the film.)

That is good!

Excellent. I was actually holding another option in my hands just in case, but won't post it just on the offchance another entrant was hoping to use it.

szczecin, pop. 407,811

foxy brown, ill na na

1. intro - chicken coop
11. fox boogie

THE WHITE ALBUM

Y'all are thinking too hard.

The winner will be Alba.

lol @ this

Fuckit, I'm bored

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veracruz,_Veracruz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feels

Anybody want to hit a bar trivia night?

PP, I wasn't thinking too hard at all. I listen to the White Noise and Louis & Bebe Barron albums quite a lot, whereas I actually had to strain to work out what the animal songs on The White Album were, even though on looking it up I see that there are four of them.

Also lolled at 'the winner will be Alba'.

And I am really quite bored too, and want another research question already.

Tokyo has a population of 562,402

Four of them?

eh, yeah.

iirc.

Illinois, by Sufjan Stevens

"The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You're Going to Have to Leave Now, or, 'I Have Fought the Big Knives and Will Continue to Fight Them Until They Are Off Our Lands!'"

and

"The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!"

bolding mine, for emphasis due to ridiculously long song titles.

forgot about the fourth one on Side 3, which is the best of the animal songs on that record.

The Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs. Disc 1 has Boa Constrictor, Chicken With its Head Cut Off, Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits, and Absolutely Cuckoo.

Missed this till now.

The Hague: 445,279
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway", "Fly on a Windshield", "Cuckoo Cocoon")

(if I'm disqualified, I'll play along for fun, like a horse with an unseated rider)

(if I'm disqualified, I'll play along for fun, like a horse with an unseated rider)

Me too.

Bradford - pop. 497,400 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford
Danielson - "Ships" ("Two Sitting Ducks" "My Lion Sleeps Tonight") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ships_(album)

Murcia (Spain) 433,850 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murcia
Patrick Wolf, Lycanthropy (Wolf Song, Pigeon Song) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycanthropy_(album)

Too late! But never mind it was fun.

Warren Zevon - Mutineer
Ajmer - India

I want to join too, if possible:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallinn

Tallinn has 404 000 inhabitants.

http://www.discogs.com/Mouse-On-Mars-Autoditacker/master/15012

Autoditacker by Mouse on Mars has tunes called "X-Flies" and "Maggots Hell Wigs".

http://www.discogs.com/Infesticons-Gun-Hill-Road/release/49475

And if "X-Flies" aren't considered a proper animal, this album has "Tiger Theme" and "Monkey Theme".

Horse without rider is separate division; one out from each division each round. But, no new horses after deadline tonight, rider or not!

Ajmer link says 485,000 in 2001 - could be over 500,000 now?

That's pretty impressive. Better, at least, than the 9 Cambodian provinces beginning with K that are contiguous with the Vietnamese province of Kien Giang, which I discovered yesterday.

However, I take issue with your assertion that the original is a single map. Though they come from the same atlas, each of those maps looks like a single plate.

I can't accept a new challenge now, Maps, as I'm heading out to the cinema. I'll have to be hostage to your adjudication.

I'm quite busy for tonight and tomorrow too. I'll trust your judgement.

Judgement it is!

JayMC objection - upheld! Lex out, JayMC to grand final!

Lex thank you for great semi-final and great contestant.

Only just seen this thread, what larks! Great tasks Maps.

Amazing division finals! In division A, JayMC stole Egypt from under Lex as he gambled for buzzer beating; in division B, even image called 'first gun depiction' on wikipedia not enough to go through! Voting was clear margin, even discounting 'popularity' votes, so Alba to final! Much praise to Tuomas - did more than anyone to raise standard of research in competition. And apologies for unclear question - I did not think through - all researchers in semis far more king than I.

Before final, can contestants please tell me focus of study at university and any postgraduate level? Aiming for playing field as level as possible.

Psychology BSc/Information Management MSc

Thanks for everyone for a great game! I knew Alba's case was probably stronger, but didn't want to admit defeat so easily. Like I guessed it's gonna be Alba vs. JayMc in the end, and deservedly so. Good luck for both of you!

egypt was gonna be my back-up plan *screwface at jaymc*

I honestly read this as "egypt was gonna be my screw-up plan *blackface at jaymc*". I need more sleep.

Good work, everyone.

Maps, in case you didn't get my e-mail:
English BA/no grad work

Good, then is fair!

Grand Final
Final will be judged by friend of mine, professor in this field. Question is this:

'Where is the missing heritability?'

You are to find it! When have found, explain where it is. Essay not needed (remember scientist marking!) but citations and evidence - good. If fail to solve major scientific mystery, tiebreaker is best case.

Round to Tuesday, 9PM.

Good luck!

So this is what all this has been leading to. A Nobel prize.

Hey here's the final question.

In the film 'City Slickers', there's a guy who looks like Newman (from Seinfeld)

What's the episode where he's in Seinfeld and light is make of his resemblance to Newman?

"The Big Salad"

jaymc: don't sleep on his skills.

Sorry - this is really poor show, but I'm not going to do this. It's a bit too much like proper homework for me and I've not got the time that it demands. Perhaps Tuomas could step back into the breach? If not, then jaymc, you truly are the king of research. Thanks for a great contest, Maps, and apologies if I've robbed you of a proper final.

Er, I was going to say something similar.

loool

http://www.ruhrtalcruising.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/holly_480.jpg

Jaymc, you are still the king, because I blinked first.

I don't even understand what the task is.

I mean, I understand the words, but I don't get what the task asks you two to do. I even put "Where is the missing heritability?" in Google, but the only result what this thread.

good thing you're not in the final, then!

"what" = "was"

i found a paper giving six explanations on where the missing heritability is in about 10 seconds. sadly i don't actually understand any of them as it's all in bioscience language, and i'm not in the final anyway.

I think Alba and I should just be declared co-kings.

Ah, googling for "missing heritability" reveals what the task is. Still, it seems to require much more specialized knowledge than the previous tasks.

Hey here's the final question.

In the film 'City Slickers', there's a guy who looks like Newman (from Seinfeld)

What's the episode where he's in Seinfeld and light is made of his resemblance to Newman?

― ambience chaser (S-), Friday, 19 June 2009 14:46 (4 days ago) Permalink

"The Big Salad"

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Friday, 19 June 2009 14:54 (4 days ago)

This is wrong! I just watched "The Big Salad" and there was no Newman look-a-like action.

I demand jaymc is stripped of his title.

Something of a disappointing end to a great game. Still, although I found a few papers on the topic very easily, I'm not convinced I could have been bothered to write an essay on genetics in order to win.

I was just interested to learn that that actor is Josh Mostel, son of Zero Mostel.

"He's learnin' on his own! Get him!"

This is wrong! I just watched "The Big Salad" and there was no Newman look-a-like action.

Ha, I had gone through the cast of City Slickers and checked out each actor's IMDB page and the only person I could find who was on Seinfeld played Genderson in "The Big Salad." But I also read the script and you're right, there's no mention of him looking like Newman. I thought maybe the joke was implicit or something.

I think the Newman lookalike must be Josh Mostel, but I can't see him ever being credited with an appearance in Seinfeld.

This was a really good thread, aside from the massively anti-climactic end. Wish someone would do another one of these. Though I do wonder if Maps was just using us to do his homework, as he doesn't seem to have posted anywhere else on ilx.

A long time and research has no king.

But maybe?

don't remember this thread at all

am somewhat o_0 at Bradford having a bigger population than Manchester, is that naive of me

I think this recent work from Kruglyak lab is very enlightening regarding the missing heritability

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v494/n7436/abs/nature11867.html
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/13/86G93/

A long time and research has no king.

But maybe?

― Maps, Thursday, September 5, 2013 10:13 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OMG MAPS. Give me research.

haha i really enjoyed this last time

I wanna play this time, it looks like fun!!

i think i wd be right into this game but maybe in 2013 there shd be some sort of rule against citing Wikipedia?

Why?

I do wonder if Maps was just using us to do his homework

If so, M's solution to how to get others to do the work was easily creative enough to qualify for the Tom Sawyer Fence Painting Redux trophy.

xp

ubiquity, mostly

Happy that people will maybe play! I will think hard over the weekend to make sure questions are good this time - no gun-picture, owned-land, heritability :(

Maps! cool

Darnit will have to miss out this time around, I'm away next week.

I thought the gun-picture round was pretty fun, it was like real academic squabbling.

New thread! king of research - season 2