" If Biden wins Florida and New Hampshire
but Trump wins Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nevada
then Biden wins "
I like the diagram, but it seems like a lot of superfluous words are going on in the "English translation" at the top.
How about "If Biden wins Florida and New Hampshire, Biden Wins" ?? It doesn't matter if "Trump wins Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nevada" in that case, so its just meaningless.
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Another example:
If Trump wins Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, and Arizona but Biden wins Georgia, Wisconsin, and Iowa then Biden wins
Clearly, the "Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, and Arizona" statement is meaningless in this example. All that matter is "If Biden wins Georgia, Wisconsin, and Iowa, then Biden wins".
It’s just concatenation of a list of strings? They could have done some neat calculation to figure out if the list is the remaining swing states and then replace the text like you suggested.
However, considering this is a side project, I understand why they didn’t try to build every feature. It’s much better to publish something in a timely manner than to spend so much time polishing it that you miss the relevant deadline!
> They could have done some neat calculation to figure out if the list is the remaining swing states and then replace the text like you suggested.
As far as I can tell, the "neat calculation" is:
* "If Trump Wins, then the list of states that Biden won are meaningless"
* "If Biden Wins, then the list of states that Trump won are meaningless".
> However, considering this is a side project, I understand why they didn’t try to build every feature. It’s much better to publish something in a timely manner than to spend so much time polishing it that you miss the relevant deadline!
I can agree with that. But I'm still going to try to offer helpful criticism when the projects hit the 1st page of Hacker News!
I like the diagram, but it seems like a lot of superfluous words are going on in the "English translation" at the top.
How about "If Biden wins Florida and New Hampshire, Biden Wins" ?? It doesn't matter if "Trump wins Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nevada" in that case, so its just meaningless.
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Another example:
If Trump wins Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, and Arizona but Biden wins Georgia, Wisconsin, and Iowa then Biden wins
Clearly, the "Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, and Arizona" statement is meaningless in this example. All that matter is "If Biden wins Georgia, Wisconsin, and Iowa, then Biden wins".