@Rainbolt i'm somewhat annoyed when 'til is misspelled till. Till is another word for cash register. But I'm especially annoyed at Cargo Crisis's placement of till in level 2 instead of 'til, because 'til is the more common word and easier to type in steno. (TEUL vs. T*EUL)
Sorting Trains
You are in charge of designing a train yard. At your junction, you have an In/Out track and Storage. Train cars come in a random order; your job is to arrange them into 4 different ordered trains. Land is expensive, so we need you to minimize the amount of storage tracks we nee...
I was intrigued by the design of this graphic from the New York Times, in which each US state is represented by a square in a grid. I wondered whether they placed the squares by hand or actually found an optimal placement of squares (under some definition) to represent the positions of the contig...
me: i want to get better at super smash brothers melee for the nintendo gamecube me: 2016 will be the year i get better at super smash brothers melee for the nintendo gamecube me: i have to practice super smash brothers melee for the nintendo gamecube my nintendo gamecube: *is in a box* me: i'm too lazy to set it up never mind
@MartinBüttner I think one of the papers did something where they decided that, if rules perform well on nearly-balanced initial conditions, then they also would perform well on not-as-balanced ICs.
Your goal is to map a piece of text to a sine curve of the form:
a sin ( mx - b )
Where a and m are non-zero rational numbers, b is a rational number, and the calculations are in radians.
It doesn't really matter where the origin of your graph is, as long as you fit all the letters in your o...
ok second question.. say I want to offer to contact the person offline so we can work together. Is there any way for the other person to give me their email address without publishing it to the world?
what I mean is, say two people on stackexchange want to send a private message to each other.. is that possible?
@Lembik drop a comment on the answer, simply saying "I've got a proposal for you; would you mind coming to chat briefly so we can exchange contact details?" or something.
Most people will respond fine to a reasonable request like that.
Two rows of a matrix are orthogonal if their inner product equals zero. Call a matrix with all rows pairwise orthogonal an orthogonal matrix. A circulant matrix is one where each row vector is rotated one element to the right relative to the preceding row vector. We will only be interested in mat...
Time to write a challenge that includes the sentence "This challenge needs a sentence that will annoy a third of the people who read it, so your code must be as short as possible."
@quintopia this conversation is the first time i've ever actually thought about the phrase and i feel like "shat" is more grammatically correct in most cases
@Quill it conjugates just fine, but usually the present tense, past tense, and past participle are the same word. which is annoying. ("hit" is the same way.)
Fixed Width
Related.
We like fixed width. We want you to evaluate a string
on it's "fixed width"-ness. However, this string will
not be a regular string. This input will be presented
to your code as thus: "name1, name2, lin1,..., linN".
Each of linK is a single line of a transcript; you'll
ass...
Today you need to solve a very practical problem: How many loops do you need to have a certain number of sheets on your toilet paper roll? Let's look at some facts:
The diameter of an bare toilet paper cylinder is 3.8cm
The length of one sheet of toilet paper is 10cm.
The thickness of one sheet...
Fixed Width
Related.
We like fixed width. We want you to evaluate a string
on it's "fixed width"-ness. However, this string will
not be a regular string. This input will be presented
to your code as thus: "name1, name2, lin1,..., linN".
Each of linK is a single line of a transcript; you'll
ass...
Sorting Trains
You are in charge of designing a train yard. At your junction, you have an In/Out track and Storage. Train cars come in a random order; your job is to arrange them into 4 different ordered trains. Land is expensive, so we need you to minimize the amount of storage tracks we nee...
Your goal is to map a piece of text to a sine curve of the form:
a sin ( mx - b )
Where a and m are non-zero rational numbers, b is a rational number, and the calculations are in radians.
It doesn't really matter where the origin of your graph is, as long as you fit all the letters in your o...
