If a verb is being used with an altered rank, then (conceptually), the specified cells need to be boxed (or otherwise partitioned) and recursively call the same verb upon the boxes, collect the boxed results, pad and extend to uniform shapes, then unbox the results into an appropriately sized (frame+cell) result array.
I'm stuck on step 1: collect the cells into boxes.
@xnor I forgive you!
I never noticed before that your icon is the symbol for your namnemonic.
And rendered small, it looks like a little devil. pretty cool, dude.
I've successfully allocated the box array to hold the boxes of the cells. Then I think I need another block of memory to hold array headers for each cell, but these can indirectly reference the appropriate offsets in the original (frame+cell) array so I just need headers for the cells.
The syntax for an array of headers looks funny, but the alternative is making lots of copies which seems wasteful if it can be avoided.
dang, it's more complicated. Even headers can have a variable-length shape list at the end. So I can't just index them like a simple array. I have to calculate the pointers accounting for the length of the shapes.
Ugh. I'm sleepy. 9 lines of code written today. :(
I added a bounty.. I can't have a python script winning a fastest code competition :)
I was wondering... if there is some model to make collaborative work attractive
maybe people have already thought about this?
my overall goal is to increase the level of awesomeness of the answers :) And having being work on each other's ideas seems seems one way to achieve it
@MartinBüttner and i bought a raspberry pi 2 to run mathematica following your example! Thanks
there's not really a model within the framework of stack exchange... but of course you occasionally get people to work collaboratively on something and just "donate" all the rep to one of the participants
other than that, there's been a good amount of collaboration in cracking some of the posts in cops and robbers challenges (predominantly the Unscramble the Source Code)
hm yeah, although in KotHs I rarely see people actually working together. like, there's often a lot of strategy discussion in chat, but rarely collaborative submissions.
Sight Reading Music
code-golfmusicimage-processing
This is still a vague idea, but I'd like to gather some feedback before fleshing out the details.
So here is the basic idea: take as input a (raster) image of a musical score and generate an audio file playing the music.
I will provide cons...
But what can you do with a tag like string? Any restrictions on usage which might be added would disqualify (probably dozens of) existing questions with the tag, but unlike programming-puzzle vs puzzle-solver there's no obvious way of splitting it and gradually migrating existing questions.
Programming Tetris Blocks (Even More Literally?)
In this challenge, you will write a Tetris AI. There's one twist though: the AI will operate from the perspective of the Tetris blocks themselves.
Note: I am worried about the novelty of this question. The key is "the perspective of the Tetris ...
I guess I don't really understand what it means for Windows process communication to be buggy. I've never had any issues with process communication using Java (on Windows) or C# (on Windows).
If the communication is buggy on Chrome, I blame Chrome.
Then again, I haven't really dived into the finer points of it. Java and C# cover up the details.
It's not something really visible in chrome, really, since it's really uncommon to find native extensions, it's just how windows handles piped streams between processes, if implemented using the winapi one can lose his mind
And I'm not trying to blame windows on it, but their retrograde winapi, which is the worst to use
Oh, okay, then... f**k windows for the worst api, f**k apple for their closed system and f**k linux for their ugly interfaces and lack of commercial-grade programs
Don't get me wrong, most pets are "useless" if you're not counting intangible benefits (companionship, teaching kids to care for animals and lessons in empathy, etc). Cats just don't have much place outside pethood, either, unlike some.
I guess you could make a case for rat/mouse hunters, but dogs can do that too (and most like to).
Personally I distinguish between proper dogs and not proper dogs, where proper dogs have to be roughly wolf sized, I see no purpose for not proper dogs and am generally opposed to the notion of pets as opposed to working animals
The case is, I dont need a pet, so the practicality of a pet, if I had one, would not be one of my first concerns... But I find funny that the gov. page to report accidents with animals basically assumes cats are unworthy
@VisualMelon I share that view: if a dog weights less than a cat, it is not a proper dog
Maybe doesn't need to be wolf sized. Beagles/hounds are primarily bred for hunting, yet are far smaller than a wolf. Smaller than a cat? Yes, that's just a toy :)
Wikipedia (on degrees): "It is not an SI unit, as the SI unit for angles is radian, but it is mentioned in the SI brochure as an accepted unit.[1] Because a full rotation equals 2π radians, one degree is equivalent to π/180 radians."
@Optimizer well now I look dumb, I meant degrees C, F, etc. ;) (kelvin not being degrees) - but I do prefer radians to degrees, it's just everyone else seems to use them, and they do work
The "degree Kelvin" (°K) is a former name for the SI unit of temperature on the thermodynamic (absolute) temperature scale. Since 1967 it has been known simply as the kelvin, with symbol K (without a degree symbol)
I can guess why people still say "degrees Foo". It allows people to make it plural. You say "2 seconds". You don't say "2 Celciuses" (celscii? celsae?)
just because it contains the words "programming puzzles" doesn't really make it about programming puzzles ;) ... to me it sounds more like he's asking about categorisation of computational problems. CS maybe?
Wikipedia's page for Imperial Units does not list Farenheit. The corresponding page for SI Units lists Kelvin as an SI unit, and Celcius as a derived SI unit. This leads me to believe that Farenheit does not belong to a system.
Farenheit is listed as a page belonging to the Imperial Units categ...
also the UK uses a very weird mix of imperial and metric units. (so much that Randall Munroe wrote a UK-specific foreword about this in his What If? book)
This one looks pretty funny actually:
Found in this answer.
This is in Chrome 38 on Windows 8.
Programming Tetris Blocks (Even More Literally?)
In this challenge, you will write a Tetris AI. There's one twist though: the AI will operate from the perspective of the Tetris blocks themselves.
Note: I am worried about the novelty of this question. The key is "the perspective of the Tetris ...
Well, the traditional generic name for the country club bar is "the nineteenth hole", which suggests The Nineteenth Byte or something like that.
Wikipedia's page for Imperial Units does not list Farenheit. The corresponding page for SI Units lists Kelvin as an SI unit, and Celcius as a derived SI unit. This leads me to believe that Farenheit does not belong to a system.
Farenheit is listed as a page belonging to the Imperial Units categ...
