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Card 577 of 10002026-08-28 issue

Observed arrival · 2026-08-28

NP-Hard Feelings Turns Polyamory Into a Scheduling Problem

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Editorial interest 84/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

An interactive art-research experiment treats a polycule as a graph whose relationships must be scheduled under competing attention demands.

Landing page captured for the 2026-08-28 issue.

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The project formalizes interpersonal attention as a periodic scheduling instance: relationships carry frequencies such as every 3 or every 5 beats, while a maximal-matching scheduler attends the most urgent edges. A beat is defined as fifteen minutes, and the page describes a sixteen-participant instance with twelve claimed positions and four still at large. It also shows a table of the six worst waits. The current page identifies itself as a design mock and says its interactive machinery is not wired.

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