At the start of this train ride I pulled out my laptop and started writing Rust and the lady next to me started knitting* a hat.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

At the start of this train ride I pulled out my laptop and started writing Rust and the lady next to me started knitting* a hat. Some hours later I wrote very little Rust because my laptop ran out of batteries and anyway the wifi on this train has been out the whole time, and the lady next to me has most of a cute-looking hat.

* Darning? I'm always confused about the terminology here

[mcc@mastodon.social]

I promise the Rust I'm writing is cool. Does anyone want to have a conversation about ranked choice voting systems. I am hopelessly confused about the implementation-level differences between Condorcet, Borda, and Cloneproof Something Something Something that Debian uses to elect board members

[mcc@mastodon.social]

Yeah. This. Section A.6. What the fuck is this. How the fuck do I implement this from a pile of votes in an sqlite database. What O() complexity is it relative to X voters ranking at most Y options from a list of Z candidates

https://www.debian.org/vote/2003/vote_0002

[ketmorco@fosstodon.org]

@mcc knitting with two needles, crocheting with a hook, and darning if you're mending it. Though I've only heard that for socks 🤷

[bob@feed.hella.cheap]

@mcc https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/voting-methods covers condorcet, borda and liquid/quadtratic but I don't know about the debian one

[elplatt@greatjustice.net]

@mcc Yo. PhD in large scale decision making here. Whatcha wanna know?

[andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it]

@mcc My understanding was always that it was basic Condorcet (which by itself can be confusing), except in the extremely unlikely case of a tie. But I've never been interested enough to look at the devotee source code (https://salsa.debian.org/debian/devotee).

[You like 20+ year old perl, right? Right?? 🫠]

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@bob looks valuable. Thanks.

A related question: to your knowledge, has anyone ever written deeply on the subject of how to implement Condorcet efficiently in a computer program?

[bob@feed.hella.cheap]

@mcc https://github.com/liqd/adhocracy4

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@Andres4NY okay incredibly fucking wild coincidence but literally the reason I'm asking this is I'm rewriting some 20 year old Perl implementing a set of voting systems in Rust

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@Andres4NY I guess that's only a moderately wild coincidence but this train is running real late and I am loopy

[luis_in_brief@social.coop]

@mcc @Andres4NY the venn diagram of perl devotees c. 2000 and weird voting systems devotees is a circle, or at least looks like a circle to the perl and voting devotees because we can’t find our reading glasses