The Nineteenth Byte

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

8:00 PM

I'm in school & brain dead. I'd upvote an apple if it was there :P

Alex A.

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Relevant :P

TanMath

@FlagAsSpam huh?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. .... I like shotguns.

flawr

Where should we discuss the PC?

TanMath

I caused a riot the momemt I entered!

FlagAsSpam

8:00 PM

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln /ˈeɪbrəhæm ˈlɪŋkən/ (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy. Born in Hodgenville, Kentucky, Lincoln grew up on the western frontier in Kentucky and Indiana. Largely self-educated, he became a lawyer in Illinois, a Whig Party leader...

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@flawr ?

flawr

The ongoing discussion about popularity contests

TanMath

@FlagAsSpam i know who he is! that would be embarrassing if i didn't...i just didn't get the joke!

flawr

and their supposedly needed objective validity cirterion.

trichoplax

8

Q: What makes a popularity contest objective?

In light of the controversy sparked by this question, I think we need to create a general "rule of thumb" policy on how objective a popularity-contest needs to be in order to be on-topic. The main issue, as I see it, is that people are not in agreement over whether an objective specification sh...

TanMath

8:01 PM

btw, i am going to work on a search engine challenge...

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

make a good pop corn

flawr

@trichoplax I know but there is a link to a chat where nothing happens.

Rainbolt

@TanMath I'm interested. I took a class in information retrieval so I might actually get a chance to be smart about something for once.

TanMath

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ obviously!

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

\p/

TanMath

8:02 PM

@Rainbolt here are the run down specs:

Alex A.

> pop corn

FlagAsSpam

> Golf me a pop con!

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. 'twas on purpose sun

Alex A.

:O

FlagAsSpam

Pop con generation code. :D

trichoplax

8:03 PM

@flawr that was the end of the chat

Alex A.

TanMath

1. the input are multiple pages linked to each other...about 10 or so...

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

JavaScript wins.

TanMath

2. write a crawler, indexer, and searcher (it that what it is called?)

FlagAsSpam

That got intense fast.

TanMath

8:05 PM

@flawr no curse words!

Rainbolt

@TanMath Is that the end of the spec (or the concept anyway)?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I miss so much

TanMath

3. obviously print the results...

Rainbolt

The results of what? I've visited all of the links; now what do I print?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Mathematica always has a buittin :P

18

A: Draw an Image as a Voronoi Map

Mathematica We all know Martin loves Mathematica so let me give it a try with Mathematica. My algorithm uses random points from the image edges to create an initial voronoi diagram. The diagram is then prettified by an iterative adjustment of the mesh with a simple mean filter. This gives image...

flawr

8:06 PM

Thanks for de-f*cking-leting this shit.

TanMath

use the cralwer, indexer, and searcher to find the webspages with the specified search term...

FlagAsSpam

@flawr Why the rage?

flawr

@FlagAsSpam WHY NOT?

ETHproductions

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Mathematica needs the built-in LoadAndRunWinningAnswerOnPPCGQuestion[QuestionID]

FlagAsSpam

@flawr Hey, man, settle down. Just asking a question.

Alex A.

8:07 PM

If you're actually angry, it might be worth stepping away to cool down for a bit.

If you're trolling as angry, you should probably say so in case more posts get flagged.

trichoplax

@flawr this is the start, but it's a long chat...

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@ETHproductions *CreateAIThatAnswersAllPPCGQuestionsInTheListFollowingAlongWithALongBuiltinForI‌t[ChallengeName1,...,ChallengeNameN]

TanMath

so that question is pretty controversial!

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Indeed.

Alex A.

To say the least

Rainbolt

8:09 PM

@TanMath Is the point of the links to make the challenge about hubs and authorities?

TanMath

i mean, it was closed, i helped reopen it, and 20 min later, closed again...

@Rainbolt i do not understand...they are just a really long string with html code...the webpages are linked together...

ETHproductions

@ETHproductions Oh wait, then if Mathematica is the winning answer...

TanMath

like in hello.html:

Rainbolt

@TanMath I'm just wondering what the point of the links are if all I have to do is search every file for some text.

TanMath

<p>hello from the other side! <a href="index.html"> blah</a></p>

@Rainbolt what?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

8:12 PM

*index.html

TanMath

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ what happened? i wrote it correctly! ;)

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

hahah

Rainbolt

@TanMath What is the point of the links? What purpose do they serve?

FlagAsSpam

Can you do <a href="localhost"></a>?

TanMath

lol

i will do one as a tribute to @phase who no longer comes to chat...

Alex A.

8:13 PM

@FlagAsSpam Sounds perfect for @phase.

Oh, ninja'd.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@PHASE COME BACK WE ARE YOUR FRIEEEEENDS

3

quartata

@flawr The room I created just for this and the meta post

Rainbolt

Noooooo. She is in my head again. You guys have infected my thoughts with Adele's yelling.

Except now she is singing "Hello from the other siiiiiiide. Ay Aychref equals index blaaaaaaah."

quartata

@flawr ?

TanMath

@Rainbolt and now you have infected my mind too!

Rainbolt

8:16 PM

I have that effect on people when we first meet.

@TanMath I think you should write up your spec for the search engine. I can't really understand the point of the links in your spec but I imagine that once you write it out I will have a better understanding.

TanMath

HELLO FROM THE OTHER SIIIDE!

@Rainbolt why can't google just search the html files?

Rainbolt

Because it doesn't know they exist until Google Crawler finds them

But you are going to provide every file as input, so there's no point in crawling them

ETHproductions

@Rainbolt I'm still LOLing at this xD

TanMath

for a small purpose, I agree maybe searching the files is easier, but this is for the challenge...

however, do you want to actually use the Web? actually crawl the Web?

Transcript for