{"id":953,"date":"2008-11-04T23:34:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T03:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=953"},"modified":"2014-04-07T09:22:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T14:22:57","slug":"movie-seating-optimization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"Movie seating optimization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My fellow XKCD nerd, Dylan, brought up this <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/173\/\">xkcd comic<\/a> during a recent dinner. Then he challenged me to create an analogous chart for our dinner group, one that would maximize enjoyment based on degree of familiarity. The problem is a matter of scale. Our dinner group is too friendly. Everyone knows everyone.<\/p>\n<p>The people included are:<\/p>\n<table width=100%'>\n<tr>\n<td>Katie H<\/td>\n<td>Elizabeth<\/td>\n<td>Brennan<\/td>\n<td>Kelsey<\/td>\n<td>Dylan<\/td>\n<td>Zach K<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Brooke<\/td>\n<td>Katie M<\/td>\n<td>Melissa<\/td>\n<td>Alex<\/td>\n<td>Chris<\/td>\n<td>Zach G<\/td>\n<td>Greg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I leave it to you to guess which one is which. Because it protects their privacy and because it is a petty power which I can hold over your heads. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center; display:block; \">\n<img src='http:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/optimal.png' alt='my diagram' class='center' title='Woohoo! I have friends!' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My fellow XKCD nerd, Dylan, brought up this xkcd comic during a recent dinner. Then he challenged me to create an analogous chart for our dinner group, one that would maximize enjoyment based on degree of familiarity. The problem is a matter of scale. Our dinner group is too friendly. Everyone knows everyone. The people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3652,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/3652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}