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Congrats to the qualifiers xcheer @Luke were Zombira's votes counted in the end?

@dogmeat I just came across a nice way of doing this today, if you're interested: https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.manifold.MDS.html#sklearn.manifold.MDS You can use the MDS class in scikit-learn to generate a 2-dimensional representation of the similarity data in...

I know you say you've made up your mind, but I hope you reconsider. I would hate to see you go just because of one member and a faulty notification system. You are very welcome in NSC, and even though you missed the deadline this time, you are still in the roster and can participate in the next...

That would leave space for 50 new nations, what an incredible solution! It would totally clear the WL and we would have room for 47 more! In completely unrelated news, ::hal has decided that we liked the name Hielito so much when it was temporarily adopted back in NSC 156 that we have decided...

I guess you could still generate the graphs using the old method, and then add colours according to the new method? Or alternatively there are Python libraries for visualising clusters via scatter plots, but you'd need to figure out a good way of representing the 60-dimensional vectors in 2...

Yeah, I agree with this. Due to the historical ambiguity in how this rule has been applied over the years, the host team should decide whether Afnia debuts. And just to reiterate, we're trying to avoid these kinds of last-minute polls. In this kind of situation, either the rule is applied as it...

That's awesome :D Btw I think there are also variations of the algorithm that guarantee the clusters have roughly equal size, but idk if there are nice Python libraries for that.

Have you considered a more methodical approach to this step, e.g. k-means clustering? Each nation's set of voting similarities is essentially a 60-dimensional vector. You could feed these vectors into a k-means clustering algorithm with k=6 and it will group the vectors (i.e. nations) into 6...

Could you try putting me as the first recipient? I've heard the order matters sometimes

Congrats Kordavian!! You just missed out on my points, so I'm glad to see it didn't make a difference in the end :D It would have been awesome to see Xhuxhmaxhuxh go from their first qualification as a returning nation all the way to winning the whole edition, but I'm glad to see a deserving...

I came into this edition expecting to potentially come last, so I'm not surprised by Halito's score so far :p Very happy to see that two people enjoyed the entry enough to vote for it though, so thank you Orian and especially Heiki for the points! :D I found this final surprisingly strong btw...

I've opened a new discussion thread for addressing the covers and remixes rule. The last one kind of fizzled out, so hopefully this one goes somewhere. Revisiting covers & remixes again Discussion thread

And yes, we can reopen discussion on the covers & remixes rule @dogmeat (but that would not affect this specific case, because any rule change would go into effect too late)

Banning Sor would also have been a mistake for the same reason. But yes, I agree that it's not a legitimate case to take as a precedent, since it was an emergency poll and as such was not subject to the usual level of rigour. Regardless, I agree with @takeru that Redwood's entry should be...

Yeah it's a tricky one. The name of the song (W Moim Ogrodecku) is in the video description, but I would never have thought to look there if I hadn't recognised it. I totally understand how you could miss it. As for the replacement entry, it's up to @marc whether to accept it.

@marc @Territrius Aimulli's entry was already entered by Noizeland in NSC 99 (different band, but same song).

Like you said, it's against the rules to have a new co-juror join an existing nation. HOWEVER, I would argue that your husband does not count as a co-juror in this situation (in the technical sense of the word), so this should be allowed. He is not a member of the forum, therefore he cannot be...

Wow, I thought mehro had a chance of a good placing, but I didn't imagine winning again, especially so soon after the last time o_O Thank you all so much, it was so great to wake up to this :mrgreen: Amazing hosting by @Territrius btw, I really loved the Only Connect style puzzles. Even though...

I made a Spotify playlist, figured I'd share in case it's useful to anyone: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/27kahQNwpSN0k1kXDSHTk7?si=WfdfIVNgSiibcbxGvWIthA&pi=e-Vy8QJF4cRY-2

Don't worry, people make mistakes all the time :) NSC has had plenty of 29th finalists in its history. The important thing is that you caught it. Your hosting has been awesome so far, especially this results show!