In the real world, not every rule can be satisfied, so it can help to treat rules as preferences instead. Our June-2023 “Miss Manners” challenge used well-tuned data with equal numbers of men and women at each party. Real data isn’t like that. This advanced version keeps Miss Manners’ seating goal — boy-girl-boy-girl, with a shared-hobby neighbor for every guest — but treats it as a preference to satisfy as much as possible rather than a hard rule, using new, less balanced datasets for parties of 16, 32, 64, and 128 guests.
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