flocks - 2024 Chicago Open

Question

John Toner and Yuhai Tu showed that the formation of these structures is an example of spontaneous symmetry breaking in the Vicsek (“VEE-check”) model. These structures inspired the development of a metaheuristic algorithm that started out with just two rules: velocity matching and “craziness.” Craig Reynolds proposed that each member of these structures obeys (15[1])rules for separation, alignment, and cohesion in his boids model. Stochastic diffusion (15[1])search belongs to a field of artificial intelligence that uses the dynamics of these (15[1])self-organized (15[1])structures to solve optimization problems. (15[1])The (*) lateral line organ (10[1])enables the formation of these structures, (10[1])especially in the absence of visual information. A murmuration is one of these structures. (10[1])The mixed-species type of these structures enables some species to forage while others act as sentinels. For 10 points, name these emergent (-5[1])structures (-5[1])that are formed by the collective motion of animals. ■END■ (10[3]0[1])

ANSWER: flocks [or flocking; accept swarms or swarming or swarm intelligence or particle swarm optimization; accept schools or schooling; accept herds; accept shoals or shoaling; accept colonies of ants, bees, termites, or other animals; prompt on descriptions of groups of animals that move together, such as birds flying or fish swimming, until “animals” is read; prompt on collective motion until read; prompt on self-organized structures until “self-organized” is read; prompt on biological aggregates or biological aggregation]

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Vincent Du	A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence	Les Missourables	52	15
Kevin Wang	genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet	when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything	64	15
Nathan Zhang	AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH	Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes	78	15
Billy Busse	BHSU B	NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess)	79	15
Adam Fine	sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone	NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess)	84	15
Vivek Sasse	There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see	it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown	88	10
Eric Mukherjee	LMM's LLM MLM	Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team	94	10
Conor Thompson	Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer	We Need New Names	108	10
Jerry Vinokurov	The Oldest Men in the World	Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy	130	-5
Jorrest Weintraub	The Jeam Team	I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open)	131	-5
Jeremy Tsai	I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open)	The Jeam Team	141	0
Matt Weiner	SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE	Lisan al-Quib	141	10
Kevin Ye	Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy	The Oldest Men in the World	141	10
Rahul Keyal	Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago	var merchants	141	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2024 Chicago Open	07/28/2024	Y	12	92%	42%	17%	97.27