The Nineteenth Byte

what do you call the generalisation of bipartite graphs where you have multiple layers instead of just 2 (like the usual structure of a neural network).

Alex A.

You've been on there for a while, @Beta, for Fourier strings. Nice :)

Martin Büttner

7:55 PM

it's not k-partite, because in those, each of the partitions can connect to any of the other ones

(instead of just at most two of them)

Alex A.

@MartinBüttner Is this the beginning of a joke?

Beta Decay

@AlexA. For Fourier? That's cool :)

Martin Büttner

@AlexA. I wish it was

Beta Decay

I thought it'd be Stop!

Alex A.

Q: What do you call the generalization of bipartite graphs where you have multiple layers instead of just 2?
A: Graphs, am I bipart*right*?

(well I tried)

crickets

Beta Decay

7:59 PM

Alex A.

That tumbleweed is moving far too quickly.

Speedweed.

^ sounds like a drug

Geobits

They can get going pretty fast in a desert wind.

Beta Decay

Haha MarijuanE

Geobits

I'm more surprised that it keeps looping back and forth.

Beta Decay

Anyone here from the desert?

Geobits

8:03 PM

I've "lived" in deserts for several months at a time on a few occasions, but never "lived" there.

aditsu

Alex A.

@Geobits Afghanistan?

Beta Decay

@Geobits Cool, where in the desert?

Geobits

Never made it to Afghanistan (luckily). Iraq, Kuwait, and Qatar though. Spent about a month in the middle of nowhere in Nevada, too.

Alex A.

Why Nevada?

Geobits

8:05 PM

Training exercises. Boring stuff.

Beta Decay

Everywhere in Nevada is nowhere

aditsu

including Las Vegas?

Beta Decay

Well from the outside it's nowhere

Geobits

Vegas isn't nowhere, but it is "in the middle of" nowhere IMO ;)

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Q: Dennis, Doorknob, Martin Büttner, Chris Jester-Young - Pizzeria!

Programming Puzzles & Code Golf is about to get a new moderator, Dennis! This challenge is a tribute to him and our other active (or recently active) moderators: Doorknob, Martin Büttner, and Chris Jester-Young. The challenge title is meant to be read to the tune of the Pepto Bismol song. Basica...

Geobits

8:07 PM

This is so damn funny:

> The challenge title is meant to be read to the tune of the Pepto Bismol song.

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Calvin's Hobbies

Yay! Moderators!

Geobits

The mods are all gastric problems now :D

Martin Büttner

@Calvin'sHobbies I'm not saying why, but you may have posted that a bit too early.

Beta Decay

@Geobits Haha have you ever driven from Vegas to Arizona? There's some kind of plant halfway along which I have no idea what it is

Calvin's Hobbies

@MartinBüttner I say we're about to get a new mod

Geobits

8:08 PM

@MartinBüttner Sounds like shit's going down.

aditsu

@Calvin'sHobbies diarrhea, Yay!

Alex A.

?

Beta Decay

It's Doorknob isn't it ;) @MartinBüttner

Martin Büttner

Let the speculation begin...

Beta Decay

He's too old now for his status as moderator to be special enough

Geobits

8:10 PM

To me it sounds more like our election was held in vain...

Beta Decay

It's me isn't it. I'm being elected :D

Alex A.

Maybe something... happened... to Dennis.

hides knife

Oof, my computadora is at 1% batterio. Bee are bee.

Geobits

> The pizzas sold by the pizzeria are all rectangular blocks of text.

These pizzas sound terrible. Don't quit your day jobs, mods.

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Beta Decay

They sound like the junior school pizzas that buzzfeed bangs on about

Geobits

Umm, @mods? I know I just insulted your pizza, but could one of you edit the 's' out of 'days' for me there? I wouldn't care if it wasn't on the starboard, but ya know... Also, great pizza, 5 stars.

Alex A.

8:21 PM

A+++ would pizza again

Beta Decay

I thought you were supposed to be running out of power... raises eyebrow

@Calvin'sHobbies Why not d for Dennis?

Alex A.

@BetaDecay Well I plugged in my laptop. :P

Calvin's Hobbies

Doorknob seems like he should have precedence

Beta Decay

And E because dEnnis?

Calvin's Hobbies

yes

Beta Decay

8:28 PM

I'm happy with that :)

Alex A.

> It's mainly a diarrhea rhyming device.

Diarrhea Rhyming Device - new band name

Beta Decay

There are so many indie/emo band names that would be perfect

I just need to make an indie/emo band now

Is that Geobits' kid in the test images? He seems familiar...

Alex A.

Yes it is

aditsu

when I started reading the diar^H^H^H^Hpizza challenge, I imagined something more like this: dpaste.com/1RMYA7G

Alex A.

Dr. Devon Bits, PhD

Doorknob

8:37 PM

> you need to label each slice with the initial of the mod who gets to eat it to ensure they all share fairly.

No no no, you've got it all wrong. First you make sure the pieces are split up perfectly, exactly evenly, because we definitely don't want any unfair shenanigans going on at all, and then you give the entire pizza to me.

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Dennis

This is the best thing I've read all day: Once you've accurately labeled each slice, deliver the pizza to the mods with an optional trailing newline.

Doorknob

Also, an extra +1 if I could for "The shortest labeler in bites wins."

Calvin's Hobbies

@Sp3000 How does it feel to be the only one in the top row who is not a mod ;)

Alex A.

@Dennis That's like the little container of garlic sauce.

Calvin's Hobbies

I think my writing is better than the actual challenge :P

Beta Decay

8:38 PM

Haha it'll make the HNQ but no one will answer it

Alex A.

Time to quit your job and make pizza jokes for a living.

Doorknob

Just make sure they're not too cheesy.

Alex A.

groans

Beta Decay

stomach rumbles

Calvin's Hobbies

I likes how "server" works as a gender neutral restaurant worker and a computing term

Alex A.

8:40 PM

You mean you don't call your computer servers "waiters" and "waitresses"?

Beta Decay

Haha he looks like a turtle :D

Alex A.

? In what way?

Unless all of the turtles in Wales look like children

(Which would be horrifying)

Beta Decay

The polygons coming up his neck

Calvin's Hobbies

Turtles in whales look eaten

Beta Decay

@AlexA. Actually, it's the other way around

Alex A.

8:44 PM

@Calvin'sHobbies Whales don't eat turtles, silly goose.

Beta Decay

> Killer whales have also been reported to eat many other types of animals including leatherback sea turtles

Alex A.

Killer whales as in Orcas?

Orcas eat krill.

Beta Decay

Yep as in orca as in Shamu

Alex A.

Shampoo eats turtle?

Beta Decay

If you don't use it within a year

It's vicious :P

Alex A.

8:46 PM

Gross

Shebang

8:59 PM

D:

Beta Decay

@Shebang You never answered me ;)

Calvin's Hobbies

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Q: Do we want an [inside-joke] tag?

A number of times I've made challenges whose focus or backstory involves specific users or inside jokes from chat or even news about the site, basically things related to what's happening in the PPCG community at large (and not necessarily about programming): Ninjas and Monkeys and Bears, Oh My...

discussion tags

Quick thoughts?

Shebang

I didn't see the message, I was driving :P What was it?

Calvin's Hobbies

Maybe pointless

Beta Decay

@Shebang What are you going to do in University :)

Shebang

9:03 PM

I'm not sure if one's needed, to be honest. Couldn't it qualify for some sort of meta tag?

I'm doing a transfer term to move into Computer Science :)

Beta Decay

Aw, I was hoping that you'd be doing a PhD

Then I could call you Dr Shebang

Shebang

Why's that?

Oh, haha

No, I'm only 18 :P

Beta Decay

But cool either way

I'd love to do CS at a higher level than the standard programming I'm doing in school

Alex A.

I wish I had ever taken a CS course. :/

Beta Decay

How did you get into programming in the first place?

Shebang

9:07 PM

Started making batch files to automate a few tasks when I was ~13

From there learned C#, VB.NET, Java, Python, Racket (in that order)

Beta Decay

Wbu Alex?

Geobits

@BetaDecay Not quite as good as Dr Decay. Very Marvely.

Dennis

@georgeunix Which Io interpreter did you test it in? The C interpreter seems to require double quotes.

Alex A.

@BetaDecay I took a mathematical programming course as part of my math major that taught Python in the context of Sage. Later I took a statistical programming course that taught R and SAS as part of my statistics minor. Then I got a job using SAS (and have since had more jobs using SAS, unfortunately). Everything else I've learned has just been from hobby programming.

Oh I guess before that I used VBA in MS Access for a job when I was about 17-18.

I didn't understand it though.

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Q: Do we want an [inside-joke] tag?

A number of times I've made challenges whose focus or backstory involves specific users or inside jokes from chat or even news about the site, basically things related to what's happening in the PPCG community at large (and not necessarily about programming): Ninjas and Monkeys and Bears, Oh My...

discussion tags

kirbyfan64sos

9:19 PM

Slightly weird thing: went I visited the URL talking about the inside-joke tag, Chrome for Android told me that the site's SSL certificate doesn't match the URL.

Alex A.

@kirbyfan64sos HTTPS issue on meta

Dennis

9:33 PM

@AlexA. vv

22 mins ago, by Dennis

@georgeunix Which Io interpreter did you test it in? The C interpreter seems to require double quotes.

Alex A.

Ok

Dennis

I can't test it in the PyPy interpreter because I'm missing a gazillion dependencies.

Alex A.

How many zeros in one gazillion?

Geobits

It's 10^boatload.

Alex A.

That's a ton of zeros.

Geobits

9:41 PM

Metric, short, or long?

Martin Büttner

depends on the zeros

Alex A.

Metric

Or that

Martin Büttner

@aditsu is e* ever not the same as f*?

Alex A.

The only string they both match is an empty string.

aditsu

@MartinBüttner compare [1 2 3]3e* and [1 2 3]3f*

Martin Büttner

9:47 PM

oh

sure

ugh... might as well delete mine.

aditsu

no, it's really cool, and it inspired me a little bit

Martin Büttner

well the cool bit has been superseded by a much cooler bit now :P

Alex A.

Inspired

Actually that looks more like some Dragon Ball Z about to become blonde stuff.

Geobits

Or a guy's last breath before the Judgement Day blast wave hits.

aditsu

I had so many other nice ideas, unfortunately they don't golf very well...

Alex A.

9:58 PM

Martin Büttner

@Doorknob so where is the snowman entry to hello world? ;)

Alex A.

And to primes?

aditsu

@AlexA. ok dude, you don't have to do that :p

Alex A.

(oh wait, he said he'd do primes over the weekend because he's getting some kind of edumacation or whatevr)

Doorknob

@AlexA. I'm working on that right now.

And I'm currently knee-deep inside Snowman internals because segfaults and memory leaks and ugh.

It's always nice when you finally run your program and the first thing you get is a segfault... >_<

Alex A.

10:00 PM

Okay, I'll stop replying to each of aditsu's comments with a vaguely related image.

@Doorknob I blame Seg. Clearly it's his fault.

Martin Büttner

"...instead I'll be using unrelated images from now on."

Alex A.

What, you said "unrelated images." What did you expect?

more crickets

Beta Decay

@MartinBüttner When does a rep cap stop in the UK?

Martin Büttner

it's midnight UTC, so 1am for you

Alex A.

5pm for me

aditsu

10:15 PM

this is what I really wanted to do: q~"CDEM"L{_,({1$2%{\@@jz}{_,2//\2/@[\]f{~@j}:+}?}{@*a*}?}3jN*

rectangular slices

can be generalized to any power of 2

just thinking whether I should post it...

nah, it's too long and ugly..

Alex A.

(I figure it's slightly more acceptable/less annoying if I don't ping @aditsu with it. I could be wrong.)

aditsu

Alex A.

Well this escalated quickly.

aditsu

hmm, the image I posted is made of shades of grey

Alex A.

I feel like any GIF I find from 50 Shades of Gray may not be appropriate for this chatroom.

Not that that's stopped a lot of stuff that's been posted in here...

Alex A.

10:40 PM

Well anyway...

Beta Decay

echo

echo

Alex A.

echo?

echo?

Dennis

echo !!

Alex A.

echo !!

And now the word "echo" looks really weird.

Beta Decay

11:03 PM

Echo echo echo echo echo echo echo echo echo echo echo echo echo echo echo echo echo echo echo echo echo echo

Echo's always looked weird

Alex A.

Beta Decay

I've hit the midnight time of absolutely nothing decent to say

G'night

Alex A.

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Goodnight!

Beta Decay

Bahahahhaha

aditsu

g'night

Digital Trauma

11:24 PM

Then there's this

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Q: Can Air planes fly through rainbows?

I am wondering whether or not it is possible for an air plane to fly through a rainbow, and, if so, does anyone have any pictures or experiences of what you can see? I've always been intrigued by this.

commercial-aviation general-aviation

Alex A.

What. I just... what.

Shebang

11:50 PM

I finally got to answer another question with Stuck :D

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