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Maybe HN could apply itself to finding solutions to George Hart's Incompatible Food Triad. (George is father to maths/art youtube superstar Vi Hart and himself

Maybe HN could apply itself to finding solutions to George Hart's Incompatible Food Triad. (George is father to maths/art youtube superstar Vi Hart and himself an amazing maths/artist.) After twenty-five years of thinking about this problem I decided to write a web page about it. Here is the problem: Can you find three foods such that all three do not go together (by any reasonable definition of foods "going together") but every pair of them does go together? The page is extremely funny, but also serious - my favourite combination. http://www.georgehart.com/triad.html http://www.georgehart.com/triad.html

curiousllama 6y ago
> That this thought experiment merits a web page is really quite astounding. That I decided to write you an e-mail telling you that is even more astounding. And that I don't drink myself stupid following this exchange will be the most astounding non-event in the history of mankind. I am baffled, shattered, and destroyed by the mind-numbing pointlessness of The Incompatible Food Triad experiment. It makes me ill. I promise you, sir, I will never again be the same after witnessing the sheer mind-blowing uselessness of that puzzle. My life as I know it, is over. I once was lost, but then I was found, and then I found your website linked to Wikipedia and now I am lost again, irretrievably lost in a dark maze, a pitch dark maze with the Minotaur of Bafflement hunting me down. I shall not escape him, I shall not escape my doom. No, good sir, instead I fall - far and away, even from myself I fall until I slam forcefully into the cold steel floor of my own mind, crippled and alone, dead to all sensation. I am gone, sir, and I shall never return. Loved the page, myself.
klyrs 6y ago
Indeed, the pb/hotdog/banana experiment was performed with this problem in mind. Though, nobody thinks that banana and hotdog is worth considering... until you roast the banana... (and, yeah, still questionable)
babelfish 6y ago
This deserves it's own post
- yesenadam 6y ago
  Done! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25995719 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25995719

curiousllama 6y ago

> That this thought experiment merits a web page is really quite astounding. That I decided to write you an e-mail telling you that is even more astounding. And that I don't drink myself stupid following this exchange will be the most astounding non-event in the history of mankind. I am baffled, shattered, and destroyed by the mind-numbing pointlessness of The Incompatible Food Triad experiment. It makes me ill. I promise you, sir, I will never again be the same after witnessing the sheer mind-blowing uselessness of that puzzle. My life as I know it, is over. I once was lost, but then I was found, and then I found your website linked to Wikipedia and now I am lost again, irretrievably lost in a dark maze, a pitch dark maze with the Minotaur of Bafflement hunting me down. I shall not escape him, I shall not escape my doom. No, good sir, instead I fall - far and away, even from myself I fall until I slam forcefully into the cold steel floor of my own mind, crippled and alone, dead to all sensation. I am gone, sir, and I shall never return. Loved the page, myself.

klyrs 6y ago

Indeed, the pb/hotdog/banana experiment was performed with this problem in mind. Though, nobody thinks that banana and hotdog is worth considering... until you roast the banana... (and, yeah, still questionable)

babelfish 6y ago

This deserves it's own post

yesenadam 6y ago
Done! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25995719 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25995719