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I just looked up Cheryl's Birthday. The wording is designed to obfuscate and confuse. The sentence, "Cheryl then tells Albert and Bernard separately the month
by ww520 10y ago
I just looked up Cheryl's Birthday. The wording is designed to obfuscate and confuse. The sentence, "Cheryl then tells Albert and Bernard separately the month and the day of her birthday respectively" is so dense and confusing. It would be much clearer to simply state, "Cheryl tells Albert the month and tells Bernard the day of her birthday separately."
I have no problem with puzzle. I have problem with puzzles the use word to confuse and obfuscate. Fuck you, I'm here to solve a puzzle, not playing word game.
Cheryl's Birthday is just a case of using known facts to eliminate impossibility, like the single day 6/18, progressively.
- paulrpotts 10y ago>The wording is designed to obfuscate and confuse. Yep. have you ever worked with a software development process that used formal specification documents? : )
- ww520 10y agoYes, it's always obfuscated and confusing. That's usually because the users don't even know what they want or what the actual problem is. It takes time to prompt them to formulate what the actual problem is and what the correct expected outcome is. It's not like they know what the problem is and deliberately hiding it. And I got days or weeks to extract the correct information from people. Didn't have to do it under 15 minutes, as in an interview. Interview is a time limited process to discover what the candidate's ability and knowledge are. You want to remove any fluff that is a waste of time. Ask any garbage question and you'll get garbage answer.