Creating question variants
EDSL comes with a variety of features for efficiently generating different versions of questions in surveys. This notebook demonstrates methods for doing this with Scenario objects.
What is a Scenario?
A Scenario is a dictionary of one or more key/value pairs representing data or content to be added to questions; a ScenarioList is a list of Scenario objects. Scenario keys are used as question parameters that get replaced with the values when the scenarios are added to the questions, allowing you to create variants of questions efficiently. For example:
from edsl import QuestionFreeText, ScenarioList, Scenario
q = QuestionFreeText(
question_name = "favorite",
question_text = "What is your favorite {{ thing }}?"
)
s = ScenarioList(
Scenario({"thing": t}) for t in ["flower", "pizza topping", "chatbot"]
)
Using scenarios
Scenarios can be added to questions when constructing a survey or when running it. Functionally, the same question context is delivered to agents and models whether they are added during or after survey construction. The difference is how the information is arranged in the results that are generated by the models.
Methods
Adding scenarios at survey construction: loop
Each question type (QuestionMultipleChoice, QuestionFreeText, etc.) has a loop() method that generates a copy of the question for each scenario in a ScenarioList that is passed to it, returning a list of the questions that are generated. The loop() method is used when survey questions are being constructed. The typical workflow is:
Construct a (single)
Questionwith one or more parametersConstruct a
ScenarioListCall the
loop()method on the question and pass it the scenario listPass the list of the questions to a
Survey
From the example above this looks like:
from edsl import Survey
questions = q.loop(s)
survey = Survey(questions)
results = survey.run()
When the survey is run, the results that are generated will include columns for each question and answer; there are no scenario columns in the results (unless scenarios are also added when the survey is run).
Running a survey with scenarios: by
Scenarios can also be passed to a question or survey at the time that it is run. This is done by calling the by() method on a survey, passing it the scenarios, and then calling the run() method. The typical workflow is:
Construct a question (or survey of multiple questions) with one or more parameters
Construct scenarios
Call the
by()method on the question or survey and pass it the scenariosCall the
run()method to administer the question or survey
From the example above this looks like:
results = q.by(s).run()
(If any agents or models have been created and specified, they would also be added in separated by() calls. See details on designing agents and selecting language models.)
Example: Looping a question with scenarios
The loop() method is called on a Question object, and takes a ScenarioList of values to be inserted in copies of the question. We can optionally use the scenario key in the question name as well (so long as it is Pythonic); otherwise, unique identifiers are added to the original question name.
We start by constructing a question that takes a parameter:
[1]:
from edsl import QuestionFreeText
q = QuestionFreeText(
question_name = "features",
question_text = "What are the features of this sailboat model: {{ sailboat_model }}"
)
Next we create a scenario list to pass to the loop() method. EDSL comes with many methods for generating scenarios from different data sources, such as PDFs, CSVs, docs, tables, images, etc. For example, we can use the from_list() method to construct a scenario list from a list. Learn about other methods for generating scenarios.
[2]:
from edsl import ScenarioList
s = ScenarioList.from_list("sailboat_model", ['Laser', 'Sunfish', 'Optimist', 'Finn'])
s
[2]:
{
"scenarios": [
{
"sailboat_model": "Laser"
},
{
"sailboat_model": "Sunfish"
},
{
"sailboat_model": "Optimist"
},
{
"sailboat_model": "Finn"
}
]
}
Next we call the loop() method with the scenario list to create a list of the copies of the question, and verify that formatted questions have been generated:
[3]:
questions = q.loop(s)
questions
[3]:
[Question('free_text', question_name = """features_0""", question_text = """What are the features of this sailboat model: Laser"""),
Question('free_text', question_name = """features_1""", question_text = """What are the features of this sailboat model: Sunfish"""),
Question('free_text', question_name = """features_2""", question_text = """What are the features of this sailboat model: Optimist"""),
Question('free_text', question_name = """features_3""", question_text = """What are the features of this sailboat model: Finn""")]
We can pass the questions to a Survey and then run it:
[4]:
from edsl import Survey
survey = Survey(questions)
results = survey.run()
We can check the columns of dataset of Results that have been generated, and see that there are sets of columns for each question identifiable by question name (but no scenario columns):
[5]:
results.columns
[5]:
['agent.agent_instruction',
'agent.agent_name',
'answer.features_0',
'answer.features_1',
'answer.features_2',
'answer.features_3',
'generated_tokens.features_0_generated_tokens',
'generated_tokens.features_1_generated_tokens',
'generated_tokens.features_2_generated_tokens',
'generated_tokens.features_3_generated_tokens',
'model.frequency_penalty',
'model.logprobs',
'model.max_tokens',
'model.model',
'model.presence_penalty',
'model.temperature',
'model.top_logprobs',
'model.top_p',
'prompt.features_0_system_prompt',
'prompt.features_0_user_prompt',
'prompt.features_1_system_prompt',
'prompt.features_1_user_prompt',
'prompt.features_2_system_prompt',
'prompt.features_2_user_prompt',
'prompt.features_3_system_prompt',
'prompt.features_3_user_prompt',
'question_options.features_0_question_options',
'question_options.features_1_question_options',
'question_options.features_2_question_options',
'question_options.features_3_question_options',
'question_text.features_0_question_text',
'question_text.features_1_question_text',
'question_text.features_2_question_text',
'question_text.features_3_question_text',
'question_type.features_0_question_type',
'question_type.features_1_question_type',
'question_type.features_2_question_type',
'question_type.features_3_question_type',
'raw_model_response.features_0_raw_model_response',
'raw_model_response.features_1_raw_model_response',
'raw_model_response.features_2_raw_model_response',
'raw_model_response.features_3_raw_model_response']
We can access built-in methods for analyzing results, e.g., printing a table:
[6]:
results.select("answer.*").print(format="rich")
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ answer ┃ answer ┃ answer ┃ answer ┃ ┃ .features_1 ┃ .features_0 ┃ .features_3 ┃ .features_2 ┃ ┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩ │ The Sunfish is a popular │ The Laser is a popular │ The Finn is a │ The Optimist, often │ │ sailboat that is known for │ one-design class of small │ single-handed, cat-rigged │ referred to as an "Opti," │ │ its simplicity and ease of │ sailing dinghy. Here are │ Olympic class sailboat │ "Oppie," or "bathtub," is │ │ use, making it a favorite │ some of its key features: │ that has been a staple of │ a small, single-handed │ │ among beginners and │ │ Olympic sailing │ sailing dinghy intended │ │ experienced sailors alike. │ 1. **Design**: The Laser │ competitions since its │ for use by children up to │ │ Here are some of its key │ is designed to be simple │ introduction in the 1950s. │ the age of 15. It is one │ │ features: │ and fast. It has a single │ Designed by Swedish canoe │ of the most popular │ │ │ sail, a single hull, and │ designer Rickard Sarby in │ sailing dinghies in the │ │ 1. **Size and Hull │ is built for performance │ 1949, the Finn has a rich │ world, designed to be │ │ Design**: The Sunfish has │ and ease of use. │ history and has been the │ safe, simple, and stable │ │ a very simple, │ │ boat of choice for many │ while providing a │ │ flat-bottomed hull design. │ 2. **Size and │ legendary sailors. │ challenging and │ │ It is small and │ Dimensions**: │ │ competitive environment │ │ lightweight, typically │ - Length: 4.23 meters │ Here are some of the key │ for more advanced young │ │ about 13.9 feet (4.2 │ (13.9 feet) │ features of the Finn │ sailors. Here are some of │ │ meters) in length and 4.1 │ - Beam (width): 1.37 │ sailboat: │ the key features of the │ │ feet (1.2 meters) in beam │ meters (4.5 feet) │ │ Optimist sailboat model: │ │ (width). The hull is │ - Draft (with the │ 1. **Hull Design**: The │ │ │ usually made from │ centerboard down): 0.787 │ Finn features a hard-chine │ 1. Size and Hull: │ │ fiberglass, which provides │ meters (2.6 feet) │ hull with a distinctive, │ - Length: 7 feet, 9 │ │ a good balance between │ │ classic shape that allows │ inches (2.36 meters) │ │ durability and weight. │ 3. **Sail Area**: │ for powerful upwind │ - Beam (width): 3 │ │ │ - Standard Rig: 7.06 │ performance. The hull is │ feet, 8 inches (1.12 │ │ 2. **Sail**: The boat has │ square meters (76 square │ relatively heavy, which │ meters) │ │ a lateen sail (a │ feet) │ provides stability in │ - Hull weight: roughly │ │ triangular sail), which is │ - Radial Rig: 5.76 │ various wind conditions. │ 77 pounds (35 kilograms) │ │ mounted to an un-stayed │ square meters (62 square │ │ - The hull is │ │ mast (a mast without │ feet) │ 2. **Rigging**: The Finn │ pram-shaped, which means │ │ support wires or stays). │ - 4.7 Rig: 4.7 square │ is equipped with a single │ it has a flat front or │ │ The sail area is typically │ meters (50.6 square feet) │ mast and one large │ "bow," making it more │ │ around 75 square feet (7 │ │ mainsail (cat-rigged). The │ stable and spacious for │ │ square meters), making it │ 4. **Rigging**: │ sail plan is designed to │ its size. │ │ manageable for one person. │ - The Laser uses a │ be adjustable, allowing │ │ │ │ fractional rig with a │ sailors to optimize │ 2. Sail and Rigging: │ │ 3. **Cockpit**: The │ single mainsail. │ performance by controlling │ - The Optimist has a │ │ cockpit is open and │ - There are different │ sail shape and tension in │ single sail with an area │ │ self-draining, designed to │ sail sizes (Standard, │ response to wind │ of about 35 square feet │ │ keep the sailor as dry as │ Radial, and 4.7) that │ conditions. │ (3.25 square meters). │ │ possible. It is also │ cater to sailors of │ │ - It uses a sprit rig, │ │ spacious enough to │ different weights and │ 3. **Size**: The boat is │ consisting of two spars │ │ accommodate up to two │ skill levels. │ relatively small, with a │ (mast and sprit) and │ │ people, although the boat │ │ length of about 4.5 meters │ three lines (main sheet, │ │ is generally intended to │ 5. **Hull Material**: The │ (14 feet 9 inches) and a │ sprit halyard, and │ │ be sailed by a single │ hull is made from │ beam (width) of │ downhaul). │ │ person. │ fiberglass, which │ approximately 1.5 meters │ - The simplicity of │ │ │ provides a good balance │ (4 feet 11 inches). │ the rig allows young │ │ 4. **Rudder and │ between durability and │ │ sailors to learn the │ │ Daggerboard**: The Sunfish │ performance. │ 4. **Weight**: A Finn's │ basics of sail trim and │ │ uses a simple rudder for │ │ hull weighs around 107 │ boat handling. │ │ steering, which can be │ 6. **Cockpit**: The │ kilograms (236 pounds), │ │ │ raised and lowered. It │ cockpit is designed to be │ and the minimum weight │ 3. Safety and Stability: │ │ also has a removable │ self-draining and is │ with all fittings and the │ - The Optimist is │ │ daggerboard that provides │ spacious enough to allow │ corrector weights is 120 │ designed to be stable and │ │ lateral resistance and │ the sailor to move and │ kilograms (265 pounds). │ buoyant, which helps to │ │ stability in the water. │ control the boat │ │ prevent capsizing. │ │ │ effectively. │ 5. **Sail Area**: The sail │ - The boat has │ │ 5. **Portability**: Due to │ │ area is roughly 10 square │ built-in flotation in the │ │ its small size and light │ 7. **Portability**: The │ meters (107.6 square │ form of air bags or foam │ │ weight, a Sunfish can be │ Laser is relatively │ feet), which provides a │ blocks, which makes it │ │ transported on top of a │ lightweight │ significant amount of │ virtually unsinkable. │ │ car or in a trailer, │ (approximately 59 │ power per square meter of │ - A self-bailing │ │ making it easy to take to │ kilograms or 130 pounds │ sail area, especially in │ system is often │ │ different bodies of water. │ for the hull), which │ stronger winds. │ incorporated to remove │ │ │ makes it easier to │ │ water that may enter the │ │ 6. **Ease of Rigging**: │ transport on a car roof │ 6. **Construction**: │ boat. │ │ The rigging on a Sunfish │ rack or trailer. │ Originally built from │ │ │ is straightforward, which │ │ wood, modern Finns are │ 4. Competition and │ │ means it can be set up and │ 8. **Sailing Category**: │ typically constructed from │ Training: │ │ taken down quickly and │ It is considered a dinghy │ fiberglass or other │ - The Optimist is │ │ easily, often in less than │ that can be sailed by one │ composite materials, │ recognized as an │ │ 30 minutes. │ person (single-handed). │ making them more durable │ International Class by │ │ │ However, it can │ and easier to maintain. │ World Sailing, the │ │ 7. **Popularity and │ accommodate two people if │ │ international governing │ │ Community**: The Sunfish │ necessary, particularly │ 7. **Controls**: The Finn │ body for the sport of │ │ has a strong following and │ in the larger rig sizes. │ is known for its extensive │ sailing. │ │ an active community of │ │ control lines, which allow │ - It is used for both │ │ sailors. There are many │ 9. **Skill Level**: The │ sailors to fine-tune the │ beginner training and │ │ racing events and regattas │ boat is suitable for a │ boat's performance. These │ high-level international │ │ specifically for Sunfish │ wide range of skill │ include the outhaul, │ competition, including │ │ sailors, which range from │ levels, from beginners to │ cunningham, boom vang │ the Optimist World │ │ local club races to │ experienced racers. The │ (kicker), and adjustable │ Championship. │ │ international │ Laser is known for its │ mast bend controlled by a │ │ │ competitions. │ competitive racing scene │ series of levers and │ 5. Construction: │ │ │ and is used in club, │ purchase systems at the │ - Optimists can be │ │ 8. **Versatility**: It is │ national, and │ base of the mast. │ constructed from │ │ versatile enough to be │ international │ │ fiberglass or wood, with │ │ sailed in a wide range of │ competitions, including │ 8. **Physical Demands**: │ fiberglass being the more │ │ conditions, from light │ the Olympics. │ Sailing a Finn requires a │ common material in modern │ │ zephyrs to relatively │ │ good deal of physical │ boats. │ │ strong winds. It's a boat │ 10. **Popularity and │ strength and endurance, │ - The design is │ │ that can be enjoyed by │ Class Association**: The │ especially in heavy winds. │ strictly one-design, │ │ sailors of all ages and │ Laser is one of the most │ The boat responds well to │ meaning that all boats │ │ skill levels. │ popular sailboat classes │ athletic sailors who can │ are built to the same │ │ │ in the world, with a │ work the sail and use │ specifications to ensure │ │ │ strong class association │ their body weight to │ fair competition. │ │ │ that organizes events and │ control the boat's balance │ │ │ │ maintains class rules. │ and performance. │ 6. Transport and Storage: │ │ │ │ │ - Its small size and │ │ │ 11. **Olympic Status**: │ 9. **Olympic Class**: The │ lightweight construction │ │ │ The Laser Standard is │ Finn has been used in the │ make the Optimist easy to │ │ │ used for men's │ Olympics since the 1952 │ transport on top of a car │ │ │ single-handed │ Games in Helsinki, but it │ or in a trailer. │ │ │ competition, and the │ was scheduled to be │ - It can be stored │ │ │ Laser Radial is used for │ replaced after the 2020 │ easily in a garage or a │ │ │ women's single-handed │ Tokyo Olympics as part of │ boatyard. │ │ │ competition in the │ a shift towards more │ │ │ │ Olympics. │ diverse and gender-neutral │ 7. Accessibility: │ │ │ │ sailing events. │ - The Optimist is │ │ │ │ │ designed to be affordable │ │ │ │ 10. **Community**: There │ and accessible, making it │ │ │ │ is a strong and active │ a popular choice for │ │ │ │ community of Finn sailors │ sailing schools and clubs │ │ │ │ around the world, with a │ around the world. │ │ │ │ well-established class │ │ │ │ │ association that organizes │ 8. Skill Development: │ │ │ │ events, competitions, and │ - Sailing an Optimist │ │ │ │ supports the class's │ teaches children wind │ │ │ │ development. │ awareness, seamanship, │ │ │ │ │ and racing tactics, which │ │ │ │ │ are transferable to │ │ │ │ │ larger boats as they │ │ │ │ │ grow. │ └────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘
Running a question with scenarios
If we instead want to add the scenarios to the question when it is run, we simply add them with the by() method. This will re-administer a question for each scenario:
[7]:
results = q.by(s).run()
The results now include columns for the single question but with a separate row for each scenario:
[8]:
results.columns
[8]:
['agent.agent_instruction',
'agent.agent_name',
'answer.features',
'generated_tokens.features_generated_tokens',
'model.frequency_penalty',
'model.logprobs',
'model.max_tokens',
'model.model',
'model.presence_penalty',
'model.temperature',
'model.top_logprobs',
'model.top_p',
'prompt.features_system_prompt',
'prompt.features_user_prompt',
'question_options.features_question_options',
'question_text.features_question_text',
'question_type.features_question_type',
'raw_model_response.features_raw_model_response',
'scenario.sailboat_model']
[9]:
results.select("sailboat_model", "features").print(format="rich") # results.select("scenario.*", "answer.*") is equivalent here
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ scenario ┃ answer ┃ ┃ .sailboat_model ┃ .features ┃ ┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩ │ Laser │ The Laser is a popular one-design class of small sailing dinghy. Here are some of its key │ │ │ features: │ │ │ │ │ │ 1. **Design**: The Laser is designed to be simple and fast. It has a single sail, a single │ │ │ hull, and is built for performance and ease of use. │ │ │ │ │ │ 2. **Size and Dimensions**: │ │ │ - Length: 4.23 meters (13.9 feet) │ │ │ - Beam (width): 1.37 meters (4.5 feet) │ │ │ - Draft (with the centerboard down): 0.787 meters (2.6 feet) │ │ │ │ │ │ 3. **Sail Area**: │ │ │ - Standard Rig: 7.06 square meters (76 square feet) │ │ │ - Radial Rig: 5.76 square meters (62 square feet) │ │ │ - 4.7 Rig: 4.7 square meters (50.6 square feet) │ │ │ │ │ │ 4. **Rigging**: │ │ │ - The Laser uses a fractional rig with a single mainsail. │ │ │ - There are different sail sizes (Standard, Radial, and 4.7) that cater to sailors of │ │ │ different weights and skill levels. │ │ │ │ │ │ 5. **Hull Material**: The hull is made from fiberglass, which provides a good balance between │ │ │ durability and performance. │ │ │ │ │ │ 6. **Cockpit**: The cockpit is designed to be self-draining and is spacious enough to allow │ │ │ the sailor to move and control the boat effectively. │ │ │ │ │ │ 7. **Portability**: The Laser is relatively lightweight (approximately 59 kilograms or 130 │ │ │ pounds for the hull), which makes it easier to transport on a car roof rack or trailer. │ │ │ │ │ │ 8. **Sailing Category**: It is considered a dinghy that can be sailed by one person │ │ │ (single-handed). However, it can accommodate two people if necessary, particularly in the │ │ │ larger rig sizes. │ │ │ │ │ │ 9. **Skill Level**: The boat is suitable for a wide range of skill levels, from beginners to │ │ │ experienced racers. The Laser is known for its competitive racing scene and is used in club, │ │ │ national, and international competitions, including the Olympics. │ │ │ │ │ │ 10. **Popularity and Class Association**: The Laser is one of the most popular sailboat │ │ │ classes in the world, with a strong class association that organizes events and maintains │ │ │ class rules. │ │ │ │ │ │ 11. **Olympic Status**: The Laser Standard is used for men's single-handed competition, and │ │ │ the Laser Radial is used for women's single-handed competition in the Olympics. │ ├─────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Sunfish │ The Sunfish is a popular sailboat that is known for its simplicity and ease of use, making it │ │ │ a favorite among beginners and experienced sailors alike. Here are some of its key features: │ │ │ │ │ │ 1. **Size and Hull Design**: The Sunfish has a very simple, flat-bottomed hull design. It is │ │ │ small and lightweight, typically about 13.9 feet (4.2 meters) in length and 4.1 feet (1.2 │ │ │ meters) in beam (width). The hull is usually made from fiberglass, which provides a good │ │ │ balance between durability and weight. │ │ │ │ │ │ 2. **Sail**: The boat has a lateen sail (a triangular sail), which is mounted to an un-stayed │ │ │ mast (a mast without support wires or stays). The sail area is typically around 75 square │ │ │ feet (7 square meters), making it manageable for one person. │ │ │ │ │ │ 3. **Cockpit**: The cockpit is open and self-draining, designed to keep the sailor as dry as │ │ │ possible. It is also spacious enough to accommodate up to two people, although the boat is │ │ │ generally intended to be sailed by a single person. │ │ │ │ │ │ 4. **Rudder and Daggerboard**: The Sunfish uses a simple rudder for steering, which can be │ │ │ raised and lowered. It also has a removable daggerboard that provides lateral resistance and │ │ │ stability in the water. │ │ │ │ │ │ 5. **Portability**: Due to its small size and light weight, a Sunfish can be transported on │ │ │ top of a car or in a trailer, making it easy to take to different bodies of water. │ │ │ │ │ │ 6. **Ease of Rigging**: The rigging on a Sunfish is straightforward, which means it can be │ │ │ set up and taken down quickly and easily, often in less than 30 minutes. │ │ │ │ │ │ 7. **Popularity and Community**: The Sunfish has a strong following and an active community │ │ │ of sailors. There are many racing events and regattas specifically for Sunfish sailors, which │ │ │ range from local club races to international competitions. │ │ │ │ │ │ 8. **Versatility**: It is versatile enough to be sailed in a wide range of conditions, from │ │ │ light zephyrs to relatively strong winds. It's a boat that can be enjoyed by sailors of all │ │ │ ages and skill levels. │ ├─────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Optimist │ The Optimist, often referred to as an "Opti," "Oppie," or "bathtub," is a small, │ │ │ single-handed sailing dinghy intended for use by children up to the age of 15. It is one of │ │ │ the most popular sailing dinghies in the world, designed to be safe, simple, and stable while │ │ │ providing a challenging and competitive environment for more advanced young sailors. Here are │ │ │ some of the key features of the Optimist sailboat model: │ │ │ │ │ │ 1. Size and Hull: │ │ │ - Length: 7 feet, 9 inches (2.36 meters) │ │ │ - Beam (width): 3 feet, 8 inches (1.12 meters) │ │ │ - Hull weight: roughly 77 pounds (35 kilograms) │ │ │ - The hull is pram-shaped, which means it has a flat front or "bow," making it more stable │ │ │ and spacious for its size. │ │ │ │ │ │ 2. Sail and Rigging: │ │ │ - The Optimist has a single sail with an area of about 35 square feet (3.25 square │ │ │ meters). │ │ │ - It uses a sprit rig, consisting of two spars (mast and sprit) and three lines (main │ │ │ sheet, sprit halyard, and downhaul). │ │ │ - The simplicity of the rig allows young sailors to learn the basics of sail trim and boat │ │ │ handling. │ │ │ │ │ │ 3. Safety and Stability: │ │ │ - The Optimist is designed to be stable and buoyant, which helps to prevent capsizing. │ │ │ - The boat has built-in flotation in the form of air bags or foam blocks, which makes it │ │ │ virtually unsinkable. │ │ │ - A self-bailing system is often incorporated to remove water that may enter the boat. │ │ │ │ │ │ 4. Competition and Training: │ │ │ - The Optimist is recognized as an International Class by World Sailing, the international │ │ │ governing body for the sport of sailing. │ │ │ - It is used for both beginner training and high-level international competition, │ │ │ including the Optimist World Championship. │ │ │ │ │ │ 5. Construction: │ │ │ - Optimists can be constructed from fiberglass or wood, with fiberglass being the more │ │ │ common material in modern boats. │ │ │ - The design is strictly one-design, meaning that all boats are built to the same │ │ │ specifications to ensure fair competition. │ │ │ │ │ │ 6. Transport and Storage: │ │ │ - Its small size and lightweight construction make the Optimist easy to transport on top │ │ │ of a car or in a trailer. │ │ │ - It can be stored easily in a garage or a boatyard. │ │ │ │ │ │ 7. Accessibility: │ │ │ - The Optimist is designed to be affordable and accessible, making it a popular choice for │ │ │ sailing schools and clubs around the world. │ │ │ │ │ │ 8. Skill Development: │ │ │ - Sailing an Optimist teaches children wind awareness, seamanship, and racing tactics, │ │ │ which are transferable to larger boats as they grow. │ ├─────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Finn │ The Finn is a single-handed, cat-rigged Olympic class sailboat that has been a staple of │ │ │ Olympic sailing competitions since its introduction in the 1950s. Designed by Swedish canoe │ │ │ designer Rickard Sarby in 1949, the Finn has a rich history and has been the boat of choice │ │ │ for many legendary sailors. │ │ │ │ │ │ Here are some of the key features of the Finn sailboat: │ │ │ │ │ │ 1. **Hull Design**: The Finn features a hard-chine hull with a distinctive, classic shape │ │ │ that allows for powerful upwind performance. The hull is relatively heavy, which provides │ │ │ stability in various wind conditions. │ │ │ │ │ │ 2. **Rigging**: The Finn is equipped with a single mast and one large mainsail (cat-rigged). │ │ │ The sail plan is designed to be adjustable, allowing sailors to optimize performance by │ │ │ controlling sail shape and tension in response to wind conditions. │ │ │ │ │ │ 3. **Size**: The boat is relatively small, with a length of about 4.5 meters (14 feet 9 │ │ │ inches) and a beam (width) of approximately 1.5 meters (4 feet 11 inches). │ │ │ │ │ │ 4. **Weight**: A Finn's hull weighs around 107 kilograms (236 pounds), and the minimum weight │ │ │ with all fittings and the corrector weights is 120 kilograms (265 pounds). │ │ │ │ │ │ 5. **Sail Area**: The sail area is roughly 10 square meters (107.6 square feet), which │ │ │ provides a significant amount of power per square meter of sail area, especially in stronger │ │ │ winds. │ │ │ │ │ │ 6. **Construction**: Originally built from wood, modern Finns are typically constructed from │ │ │ fiberglass or other composite materials, making them more durable and easier to maintain. │ │ │ │ │ │ 7. **Controls**: The Finn is known for its extensive control lines, which allow sailors to │ │ │ fine-tune the boat's performance. These include the outhaul, cunningham, boom vang (kicker), │ │ │ and adjustable mast bend controlled by a series of levers and purchase systems at the base of │ │ │ the mast. │ │ │ │ │ │ 8. **Physical Demands**: Sailing a Finn requires a good deal of physical strength and │ │ │ endurance, especially in heavy winds. The boat responds well to athletic sailors who can work │ │ │ the sail and use their body weight to control the boat's balance and performance. │ │ │ │ │ │ 9. **Olympic Class**: The Finn has been used in the Olympics since the 1952 Games in │ │ │ Helsinki, but it was scheduled to be replaced after the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as part of a │ │ │ shift towards more diverse and gender-neutral sailing events. │ │ │ │ │ │ 10. **Community**: There is a strong and active community of Finn sailors around the world, │ │ │ with a well-established class association that organizes events, competitions, and supports │ │ │ the class's development. │ └─────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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from edsl import Notebook
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n = Notebook(path = "question_loop_scenarios.ipynb")
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n.push(description = "New question method `loop` for creating questions with scenarios", visibility = "public")
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'uuid': '54bc4f5d-bda5-4c25-9860-0e23af251341',
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'visibility': 'public'}
To update an object at the Coop:
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n = Notebook(path = "question_loop_scenarios.ipynb")
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n.patch(uuid = "54bc4f5d-bda5-4c25-9860-0e23af251341", value = n)
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