On order, 1. @AlexA. Uh... I'm gonna need a little more than that. :D 2. I have only heard wont pronounced either "wuhnt" or "won't, " and 3. That's a cool project! Oldie but goodie :)
Like, he operated a "store" of materials and gave each team a budget. Extra points for going under budget and a stiff penalty for going over. Then, there were points for weight, where the lighter projects got points. Then, there was a judging panel that assigned points on literally no criteria whatsoever. Then, when dropped, there were points for accuracy (how close to the target the project landed), and points for egg survival.
My team ended up with a 102 (rounds to a 100), but all those bonus points we and a few teams got, were points that other teams didn't get. One team got like an 88.
(70 base points) + (5 self-assessed points) + ($500 in budget * 1 point per $25 under budget = 20 points) + (5 "lightest design" points) + (5 "hits the general area of the bulls eye" points) = 105
@MartinBüttner That was once the premise, but it's not really the case any more. Pyth has diverged pretty far from Python. It's built-ins make it what it is, not the language it compiles to.
the 2D word-rearranging challenge will might be a code-challenge to find solutions with as few moves as possible as effective optimal algorithms are not easy (if they exists at all)
if you can't find an optimal algorithm post the challenge as code-challenge with shortest code tiebreaker :)
@Geobits I'm planning a koth where bots would be launched at every step but it seems to me that takes a lot of time so a round-robin format would not be doable :(
Most of the exceptions look like they're just not outputting anything on some turns (may not have a default output). Keep getting "no line found" from my Scanner.
If the game charged $15/mo outright, it would be much better than... this. In order to be good at this game, you have to send them more money. That's a horrible philosophy.
I suspect that CPU time is going to be a serious bottleneck.
And I'm really annoyed by the fact that they've disabled the public "survival" and "arena" game modes while the private early preview is going on. I literally have no way to play the game.
Well, I have like a browser-run simulation mode, but I don't think that counts.
"Oil Again Fouling California Coast Near Site of Historic Spill" -> Given an oil spill of N liters T time units ago, output a map showing likely dispersal patterns
"Paralyzed Man Drinks Beer by Moving Robotic Arm With His Mind" - Give instructions for how to move an "arm" at certain coordinates to pick up a "drink" at different coordinates, given the joints of the "arm" and the minimum and maximum angles they can bend at
"Dog saved from raging river and given mouth-to-mouth (+video)" - not sure yet, maybe plotting a course through river to rescue the dog, followed by CPR-themed dance-dance revolution?
Though really, my measurement would be inaccurate if I only cared about the top of a head. I was curious what the resultant downward force on an average upright person is due to atmospheric pressure.
You guys want to measure your heads real quick? Measure the circumference, call it a circle, extrapolate an area... 3 is a big enough sample size, right?
Make a slow error quine maker!
code-challenge busy-beaver quine
As part of his answer to Make an Error Quine!, @Falko proposed the following algorithm:
How to create your own solution in 2 minutes?
Open a new file in an IDE of your choice.
Bang your head onto the keyboard in fron...
I told a buddy that I felt about 200 pounds lighter now that grades were back. He informed me that would put my weight in the negatives. I wanted to know what proportion of air above my head spontaneously disappeared. Nothing weird.
Use photos. I'm sure you can find some top-down photos (crowd monitoring/counting, etc). As long as there's something to reference length by, you should be able to measure the pixel area of a person.
Anything with a known standard size would do for a reference, even something like a car.
I'm putting effort into finding the bare minimum libraries required to have accurate image recognition. With virtually nothing, I ran the genetic programming simulation for ~80-87% accuracy in deciding whether or not something was a black circle.
But that method is failing fast.
Google says 2.278 pounds/sq cm. (Yes, that is pounds per square centimeter. Please don't shoot me.)
When I was young my dad convinced me that if you spent a little extra, you could purchase a winning lottory ticket. However, those were too expensive, so he only bought ones that didn't win.
Perhaps that could be a candidate's platform in the next presidential election. "I will address the jellyfish problem that plagues our nation's beaches!"
Is there a feature by which we can buy reputation on SO (e.g 100 rep for $1)?, or a bot by which we can hack and increase our reputation?
Make a slow error quine maker!
code-challenge busy-beaver quine
As part of his answer to Make an Error Quine!, @Falko proposed the following algorithm:
How to create your own solution in 2 minutes?
Open a new file in an IDE of your choice.
Bang your head onto the keyboard in fron...
