The Nineteenth Byte

Exhibit A.

Time for more audio challenges? something something sight reading...

Huzzah, now we need this to be a challenge

@BrainSteel lol, I just thought about that

I'll see what I can do tomorrow

Congrats Blue Team!

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1:03 AM

No rush. I'm excited for the integration, though! We'll have to see what people come up with. Perhaps @Calvin'sHobbies may even put in a challenge, eh?

@Calvin'sHobbies I can hear the gears in your mind grinding about how you are gonna write a challenge that makes use of the soundclound embedding :P

@BrainSteel I'm sure he will... so far he didn't miss any chance when we got a new feature ;)

No pressure :)

(I think he missed the redesign though)

Just as long as it's not another MathJax fiasco :P

I've been scoring RvB and just saw that we got SoundCloud

Very recently.

1:05 AM

@Calvin'sHobbies I doubt that. ;)

That RvB challenge is an amazing success! I hadn't checked on it in a while.

to my shame, I never even got around to reading the rules :(

Blue Team has remained ahead ever since the Sphibots. I thought maybe Hosch and TheNo1 would turn it around for red, but alas...

I read the rules, but didn't come up with anything particularly clever. I should have tried to help my team :(

I was hoping the comeback would come, but I guess people were busy

1:09 AM

I remember watching the Sphibots on the first day they existed. It was about as terrifying as 2 little pixels could be...

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@Sp3000 Yeah, a Red comeback would have been quite spectacular, if discouraging for the blues

btw you should accept Phi's answer :P

Ah right, forgot about that. Wish I could accept both

The formation thing was Phi's idea to begin with anyway

Why does the help bar still say MathJax is supported? We did drop support for that, right?

Chris Jester-Young

1:23 AM

@ASCIIThenANSI Where does it say that?

@ChrisJester-Young Go to 'ask question' or 'edit question'. Under 'How To Format' on the right side, it says 'MathJaX Equations'.

I think RvB was one of the most fun challenges I've done in a while.

Chris Jester-Young

@ASCIIThenANSI Not on the main site, it doesn't. (MathJax is still enabled on meta.)

@ChrisJester-Young OK, but why is MathJax disabled on the main site and not on meta?

Q: Do we really want LaTeX/MathJax (right now)?

Because it causes problems.

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Update: The decision has been made to deactivate MathJax on main for now (it's still active on meta to play around with). This does not reflect the current votes, as these changed significantly after the decision was made. We've had MathJax support for 3 days now. While it makes our maths chal...

1:28 AM

@Doorknob OK, thanks.

@Calvin'sHobbies I'm listening to that audio sample you put in the Numbered Cube challenge. It's funny to watch all the comments to go by.

Apparently, I've only ever had 3 answers of mine accepted.

16 of 229 here.

Similar ratio to yours.

@PhiNotPi If you won any of my last 30 or 40 contests I will accept eventually. I usually accept in batches in one go

I almost certainly didn't.

1:43 AM

Here's an idea I've had for a while, now we've got SoundCloud it seems ripe:

Using only the sounds that noteblocks can make in Minecraft, simulate any other given song/music file as best as possible. (pop-con, pros: good answers could be really really cool, cons: good answers could be really really hard)

Time to learn FFT, tempo analysis, and how to actually read audio files in Python...

Would it be like this? minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-tools/…

"Convert MIDI files into note blocks"

@Doorknob what's the quickest way to find the number of accepted answers? SEDE?

@MartinBüttner user:me isaccepted:yes

I went to my profile page and counted.

1:52 AM

(search query)

@Doorknob ah thanks

"me" doesn't actually work, does it?

It does.

D:

48 accepted

so just short of 10 percent

@PhiNotPi Pretty much. Figures it's already been done :P

2:32 AM

@Calvin'sHobbies Cool idea. But how would the sound be made if you don't own Minecraft?

Maybe we write code to generate songs?

2:50 AM

It looks like @Calvin'sHobbies has inspired another team-based KOTH. Are we ushering in a new era? If this kind of thing takes off, perhaps we could get a [team-KOTH] tag?

3:08 AM

@ASCIIThenANSI I'd provide all the sounds as individual files or something. You wouldn't need minecraft.

@Doorknob I suppose this can be deleted now. I don't need it at least. Others may want to keep it, not sure.

Dear Calvin. Quilt is driving me insane with the number of possible approaches. - Sp

@Calvin'sHobbies I'll delete that post. If you want you can leave a note on the main challenge that people who lost anything important from their answers can ping me.

@MartinBüttner Alright

3:24 AM

@BrainSteel @AlexA. so I started collecting "the list"... it's gonna be some 40 bands (plus whomever I forgot in the first pass)... still need to collect some youtube links and write a little something about each of them though.

3:35 AM

I'm blue team again. (for capture-the-flag)

@PeterTaylor would you say questions like this qualify for the set partition tag? i.e. anything that asks to group a number of entities into disjoint sets, even if it's not necessarily related to combinatorics?

And so is Sp3000.

SphiNotPi3000 v2.0, anybody?

@PeterTaylor or similarly, questions about "the" partition problem.

@PhiNotPi Haha, the OP should have tried to avoid that

@MartinBüttner Is set-partition a proposed tag?

3:43 AM

I'll start adding the tags integer-partitions and set-partitions to questions tomorrow

I'm collecting a list of applicable questions right now

@PhiNotPi I'll join if things get interesting :P

(still quilting - my algorithms are getting weirder by the minute)

what you outlined applies to a lot of questions, too broad IMO

We should probably wait and see what happens. I haven't even read all of the rules yet.

and set-partition strongly suggests combinatorics for me

@randomra hm yeah, I might stick with those. but in some cases, even if the challenge isn't about combinatorics, if the question asks you to return a partition of some input set, the search space is still all set partitions.

3:46 AM

is any f: [*]->N function a set-partition in that sense?

ummm... why?

I see, you mean that the input is the set

yes

(just noting that there is a classification tag)

set is structure-less, the data in what you linked question isn't

I would call it data-partitioning

or maybe input-partitioning as I didn't get that you meant it to the input :)

4:05 AM

@randomra the set-partition tag is supposed to cover ordered partitions as well

based on Peter's point here

ok then

@MartinBüttner Excellent!!

@MartinBüttner What is this in reference to?

@Calvin'sHobbies: We were talking about music the other day. Martin has is going to share some of his recommendations with BrainSteel and me.

@Calvin'sHobbies: What kind of music do you like?

Oh, I thought it was for some kind of challenge. I actually have my own huge excel list of songs I like. The Beatles have the majority. Most of the rest is angsty stuff from the 90's.

4:18 AM

Favorite Beatles album?

Not sure. Rarely listen to them by the album. Maybe Let it Be

Are you a "shuffle" kind of person, or do you like selecting individual songs as you see fit?

Shuffle all then hit next until a song I want to hear pops up

When you say "angsty stuff from the 90's," do you mean things like this?

4:36 AM

Don't know them but kinda, though a little less screamy