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Geobits
Geobits
6:00 PM
Six to eight weeks.
 
Anonymous
As long as it's after our graduation next week, I'm happy
 
TimmyD
TimmyD
@Geobits So, November 1st?
 
Anonymous
!!!!
 
Anonymous
We're at 9.8!
 
Anonymous
Quick we need more challenges
 
Geobits
Geobits
6:03 PM
Yes, because the last one went so smoothly >_>
 
RikerW
RikerW
I have one in the sandbox.
It needs to be revamped though.
Anybody want it?
 
Anonymous
Link?
 
RikerW
RikerW
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

RikerWWIP–SLOWLY MIGRATING TO PLATYPUSI I can't believe it's not Büttner!!! This is an image of our wonderful moderator @MartinBüttner. This is also an image of the same person, or is it? Your task is to determine whether a inputted image is @MartinBüttner in disguise... The input may be taken in ...

@Cyoce offered himself to be martin's standin.
I just need to put some test cases and change the images.
 
Thomas Kwa
Thomas Kwa
@TimmyD May I edit an image into your answer?
 
RikerW
RikerW
Feel free to take that challenge, but let me know.
 
quartata
quartata
6:05 PM
@Mego I have one in the sandbox
 
RikerW
RikerW
GO @quartata GO
 
quartata
quartata
2
A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

quartataBridge Hand Scoring One of the things that makes contract bridge very interesting is its highly complicated "artificial" meta game. This system of scoring hands is a small part of it. Bridge is a trick-taking card game. Each player gets a hand of 13 cards, and the game starts with the bidding. ...

 
Thomas Kwa
Thomas Kwa
@Mego I have several.
I'll post them when they're ready.
 
RikerW
RikerW
GO GUYS GO
 
New Meta Posts
New Meta Posts
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Q: Is the empty string an acceptable decimal representation of 0?

Thomas KwaIn a recent question for which the correct output for 1 is zero, an answer output the empty string. Is this an acceptable base-10 representation for zero?

discussion policy answers
 
RikerW
RikerW
6:07 PM
@ThomasKwa * when they're ready now
 
Anonymous
I've been toying with the idea of posting a simpler variant of my semiquine challenge
 
Anonymous
I think I'll go ahead and post it
 
quintopia
quintopia
semiquine?
 
RikerW
RikerW
use teh ppcg google
Now marky is being a pedant.
ಠ_ಠ
 
quintopia
quintopia
oh i misread "challenge" as "language"
 
Geobits
Geobits
6:15 PM
@RikerW He's not being a pedant. You said bye, so he expected you to leave. It's not his fault he trusts people :P
 
RikerW
RikerW
ಠ_ಠ
 
Anonymous
@Geobits We'll break him of that very quickly
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RikerW
RikerW
ALL ARE PEDANTS TOO NAIVE & TRUSTING
 
Anonymous
Metaquine challenge posted :)
 
RikerW
RikerW
COME LIE TO MARKY
CORRUPT HIS ROBOTIC COMPUTER CORE
 
Anonymous
6:16 PM
Silly Riker, robots don't have souls
 
RikerW
RikerW
A picture of Markian Markay.
 
Geobits
Geobits
^^
@Mego Marky confirms; he has no soul.
 
New Main Posts
New Main Posts
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Q: Write a Metaquine

MegoA metaquine is a program which is not a quine, but whose output, when run as a program in the same language, is a quine. The goal of this challenge is to write a metaquine. This is code-golf, so shortest code wins, with earliest answer used as a tiebreaker. Note that only full programs are accep...

code-golf quine code-generation
 
Anonymous

Marky is not wrong

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Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@ETHproductions Thanks!
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
6:23 PM
who is marky?
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
o_o
 
orlp
orlp
O_O
 
quartata
quartata
Have we had a baker's map challenge?
oh looks like it
 
RikerW
RikerW
I am an Alex sock.
 
quartata
quartata
14
Q: Discrete Baker's Map

ZgarbIntroduction The Baker's map is an important dynamical system that exhibits chaotic behavior. It is a function from the unit square to itself defined intuitively as follows. Cut the square vertically in half, resulting in two rectangles of size 0.5×1. Stack the right half on top of the left, r...

code-golf string grid
 
Geobits
Geobits
6:24 PM
@Optimizer You can find him here.
 
quartata
quartata
I'm surprised at how many challenges I think of that have already been done
 
RikerW
RikerW
^
 
Cyoce
Cyoce
@RikerW I offered myself to do what now?
 
RikerW
RikerW
be memeified.
 
Cyoce
Cyoce
Ah yes
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
6:25 PM
@Quill Aw shoot. In my defense, it WAS 7:16 AM...
 
Cyoce
Cyoce
Let the memification begin ( ͡ಠ ツ ͡ಠ)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
orlp
orlp
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@mınxomaτ Sure, what do you need?
 
Zgarb
Zgarb
@quartata The curse of being an active community...
 
Anonymous
@orlp flags as offensive
 
RikerW
RikerW
6:27 PM
@AlexA. I got it for him, don't worry.
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
@AlexA. Oh, @RikerW already helped me out. Thanks!
 
quartata
quartata
@AlexA. when should we do the Friday Night CS thing
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
friday night?
 
quartata
quartata
I'm thinking 2 AM UTC (seems to be the time when we're all on)
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
That was a lot of pings as soon as I entered the room
 
Anonymous
6:28 PM
Hi @AlexA.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
Hi @Mego
 
quartata
quartata
@Doorknob Yes
 
RikerW
RikerW
Hi @AlexA..
 
Anonymous
<3
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
<3
Hey @Riker
 
Anonymous
6:28 PM
It's bird love, between two birds~
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
@quartata no I'm saying like you should probably do Friday Night CS on friday night
 
quartata
quartata
Also Alex if you want to host you'll have to port forward 27015
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@mınxomaτ Okay, glad he could help
@quartata No idea what that means
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
@Geobits are you classifying parts of words being fed to it or not?
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@Doorknob ಠ_ಠ
 
quartata
quartata
6:29 PM
@AlexA. liek what kind of router do you have
 
Cyoce
Cyoce
What do you guys think of this one?
¯\_( ͡ಠ ͜ʖ ͡ಠ)_/¯
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@Mego Is that like the song in Scrubs?
@Cyoce 6/10 very suggestive
 
Cyoce
Cyoce
( ͡ಠ ツ ͡ಠ)( ͡ಠ ツ ͡ಠ)
 
Geobits
Geobits
@Optimizer All I've really done so far is feed the entire chat transcript to a neural net. It's been running for a few days now.
 
Cyoce
Cyoce
¯\_(ツ)_/¯¯\_(ツ)_/¯( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
 
Anonymous
6:30 PM
@AlexA. It's exactly that song from Scrubs, but with s/guy/bird/g
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
@Geobits yeah, but then its just treating it as input string -> output string
and not as conversation
 
Cyoce
Cyoce
@Mego I know what this notation represents, but where did it come from? What language etc. first implemented it?
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@quartata Uh, NetGear something or other. My dad gave it to me when I moved out and got himself a better one. :P
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@somebody (and @Sp3000) Actual site.
 
Anonymous
@Cyoce I'm familiar with it from sed. Not sure if it's the first.
 
quartata
quartata
6:31 PM
@AlexA. well find out how to configure its firewall
 
Geobits
Geobits
@Optimizer Sure, sure. This is my first go at it, I haven't done anything like it before and wanted to play with the tensorflow library.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@Mego Heh, that's what I thought, just checking. Haven't seen Scrubs in like 10 years.
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
@Geobits cool
 
Anonymous
@AlexA. Fantastic show 11/10
 
Cyoce
Cyoce
¯\_( ͡ಠ ͜ʖ ͡ಠ)_/¯ has officially been macrofied
 
Anonymous
6:32 PM
@quartata Luckily most routers nowadays make it easy
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@quartata There's a password for the router and I have absolutely no idea what it is.
 
Anonymous
@AlexA. Look on the router
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
It's a password I set myself.
And promptly forgot.
And did not write down.
 
Anonymous
And with IPv6, we don't have to worry about NAT nonsense! \o/
 
Geobits
Geobits
Time for the almighty reset button :D
 
Anonymous
6:33 PM
@AlexA. Nice job, bird brain :P
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
ಠ_ಠ
 
quartata
quartata
@AlexA. lmao gg
 
Anonymous
@AlexA. pro tip: keepass.info
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
After I initially set up the router I didn't figure I'd need it again, and I was like, "Oh of course I'd remember it."
 
Anonymous
It keeps your ass in line :P
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
6:34 PM
My ass looks more like the number 3 than a line.
 
PhiNotPi
PhiNotPi
My second community ad idea: meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/8397/2867
 
Cyoce
Cyoce
Should I use Y or | for fold?
 
quartata
quartata
@Cyoce |
 
Geobits
Geobits
@PhiNotPi +1 I like it better without the logo that could very well be replaced by something else before the ad's time is up.
 
orlp
orlp
@Doorknob @Optimizer Doorknob's user/host is llama@llama
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
6:37 PM
I think that's a good symbol of "Dam Son this community is bananas"
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
@orlp he knows
 
orlp
orlp
is he a deity?
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
and for the record (although I've said this before) that is completely independent of Optimizer being a llama
 
orlp
orlp
all-knowing?
 
quartata
quartata

rekt

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Doorknob
Doorknob
6:37 PM
I was llama@llama before even knowing who Optimizer was ;)
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
you worship god even before knowing who/what god is
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@quartata This made me lol
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
Anyone know a chrome addon that auto highlights all other instances of the current text selection? (Like notepad++)
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
21 hours ago, by quartata
shit he's getting sassy
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
@Calvin'sHobbies Ctrl + F
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
6:39 PM
XD
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
@quartata :(
 
quartata
quartata
I have to say Marky is actually pretty smart for a bot
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
_UNK
 
Geobits
Geobits
For a dumb bot, sure. He's got no memory though.
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
how do i save conversation?
 
Dennis
Dennis
6:39 PM
@AlexA. You shouldn't though.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@Dennis Um what
 
Optimizer
Optimizer

bad bot

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Dennis
Dennis
@Dennis I do though ._. — Alex A. ♦ 6 mins ago
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@Dennis Haha. I like to retain some semblance of good practices in the languages I use for code golf, be that for better or for worse. :P For Julia that only implies avoiding deprecated features.
 
New Main Posts
New Main Posts
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Q: Remove leading and trailing zeroes

LamaroGiven a non-empty list/array like this: [0, 0, 0, 8, 1, 4, 3, 5, 6, 4, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0] Output the list with trailing and leading zeroes removed. The output for this would be: [8, 1, 4, 3, 5, 6, 4, 1, 2] Shortest code wins

code-golf array-manipulation
 
Dennis
Dennis
6:43 PM
@AlexA. good practices ಠ_ಠ This is code golf!
 
Zgarb
Zgarb
@Dennis Kicks Alex into chasm?
 
Anonymous
Good practice is getting your score lower
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@Dennis Perhaps "good practices" was a poor choice of words. Basically, when a feature becomes deprecated, I just pretend it never existed.
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
If it's golf, though, anything goes...
 
quintopia
quintopia
@NewMainPosts would "1 be considered a Seriously/Pyth etc. metaquine? I can't tell if the rules rule it out.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
6:44 PM
Julia 0.3 is dead to me.
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
@quintopia That's a literal
(both the metaquine and the quine are)
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@Doorknob Oh sure, it's just personal preference. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
Dennis
Dennis
1 min ago, by Mego
Good practice is getting your score lower
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
@AlexA. Byte count isn't really personal preference though
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
> Perhaps "good practices" was a poor choice of words.
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
6:46 PM
you meant "good amount of practice in golfing" ?
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@Doorknob How I develop my code is. I optimize for byte count within the confines of the current version of the language.
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
If it still works in the current version of the language...
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
In 0.5 the deprecated 0.3 features will probably be errors instead of deprecation warnings.
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
But they aren't yet
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
I like my code to run without errors/warnings/etc.
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
6:47 PM
3 mins ago, by Doorknob
If it's golf, though, anything goes...
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
2 mins ago, by Alex A.
@Doorknob Oh sure, it's just personal preference. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
2 mins ago, by Doorknob
@AlexA. Byte count isn't really personal preference though
... haha I think there's an infinite loop happening here
 
quintopia
quintopia
@Doorknob Oh, I didn't see that rule. I only read the rules that were next to bullet points because I'm used to all the rules being next to bullet points if some of them are.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
2 mins ago, by Alex A.
@Doorknob How I develop my code is. I optimize for byte count within the confines of the current version of the language.
 
Anonymous
The only time I won't do something to make my code shorter is if I can't confirm that it works
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
6:50 PM
I can't confirm that my code will work even with the next minor version of Julia unless I stick to non-deprecated features.
For example, int could be gone in 0.4.4.
I just don't know.
 
Anonymous
@quintopia I reformatted the rules so that part is under the without part, in a bullet point
 
orlp
orlp
is there a nice name for a number between 0 and 1?
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
[0,1) or [0,1] or (0,1]?
 
orlp
orlp
[0, 1)
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
I don't think there's a word for that
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Q: A number between 0 and 1 - like a percentage but expressed as a decimal

ephemerI'm looking for a word to replace "percentage" for numbers between 0 and 1. To explain: what I'm actually dealing with are decimals (like 0.12), semantically however they serve the purpose of percentages (the equivalent here being 12%, obviously). So my number between 0 and 1 is not a percentag...

single-word-requests vocabulary
maybe kinda sorta helps ^
 
quintopia
quintopia
6:54 PM
@Mego i assume that it's okay if a true quine (unsuppressible line feed ignored) is also a metaquine (unsuppressible line feed not ignored)?
 
orlp
orlp
I think "proper fraction" counts
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
Irrational numbers are dense in the reals
Those can't be expressed as proper fractions
 
Geobits
Geobits
@AlexA. That sounds like the setup to a yo mama.
 
Anonymous
@quintopia Technically yes
 
orlp
orlp
@AlexA. huh?
pi/4 is a proper fraction
but irrational
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
6:56 PM
I thought a proper fraction implied an integer divided by an integer
Basically I thought proper fraction == rational
 
Anonymous
@orlp Sure, but find me a proper fraction for the Champernowne constant
 
orlp
orlp
"In mathematics, a rational number is any number that can be expressed as the quotient or fraction p/q of two integers, p and q, with the denominator, q, not equal to zero."
 
PhiNotPi
PhiNotPi
Proper fraction is when the numerator is less than the denominator.
 
orlp
orlp
emphasis mine
 
Anonymous
Specifically, transcendental numbers are dense in [0,1], and those cannot be expressed as fractions
 
PhiNotPi
PhiNotPi
6:57 PM
5/3 is a rational number but not a proper fraction
 
orlp
orlp
Yes they can, just not as a fraction of integers.
 
Optimizer
Optimizer

PPCG will never graduate

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PhiNotPi
PhiNotPi
Although it generally refers to a 0.xxx number used as part of scientific notation.
 
orlp
orlp
The reason I'm asking is because I'm working on a challenge where you have to write an adaptive arithmetic coder
 
Zgarb
Zgarb
@orlp "Fuzzy Boolean"?
 
PhiNotPi
PhiNotPi
6:59 PM
There's also "fractional part" if that hasn't already been mentioned: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_part
 
orlp
orlp
@Zgarb In this context that'll be incredibly confusing.
 
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