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1:03 PM
@trichoplax I don't see why not
But that's far more complicated than brainfuck
 
Good point
 
Anonymous
Hello, there
 
Hi
 
clearly, the best way to prove TC is by reducing to Super Mario Bros :P
 
@Sp3000 ................................................................................‌​.................
 
1:09 PM
MarioLANG is TC...
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

βετѧ ΛєҫαγDNA Encode a String code-challenge string kolmogorov-complexity Challenge You must write an encoder (and a separate decoder) which takes a string as input and outputs the string encoded in the style of a strand of DNA. DNA DNA is made up of four types of nucleotide: Adenine (A) Thymine (T)...

 
I meant the game. Unless you prefer reducing to Magic the Gathering, that works too I guess.
 
1:27 PM
^^^ eleven plz
 
Wow. I leave for the weekend, come back, and it looks like I wandered into MoMA chat. Y'all get into a fight with an group of impressionists?
10
 
@Adnan This is the best example of the Broken Window Theory.
 
Are you suggesting the room would be better behaved if we kicked people out for saying hi?
 
@LeakyNun Yeah, I haven't even got the slightest clue why that got starred.
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The broken windows theory is a criminological theory of the norm-setting and signaling effect of urban disorder and vandalism on additional crime and anti-social behavior. The theory states that maintaining and monitoring urban environments to prevent small crimes such as vandalism, public drinking, and toll-jumping helps to create an atmosphere of order and lawfulness, thereby preventing more serious crimes from happening. The theory was introduced in a 1982 article by social scientists James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling. Since then it has been subject to great debate both within the social...
For the record, Windows® is always broken.
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1:31 PM
Jul 31 at 14:37, by Leaky Nun
The broken windows theory is a criminological theory of the norm-setting and signaling effect of urban disorder and vandalism on additional crime and anti-social behavior. The theory states that maintaining and monitoring urban environments to prevent small crimes such as vandalism, public drinking, and toll-jumping helps to create an atmosphere of order and lawfulness, thereby preventing more serious crimes from happening. The theory was introduced in a 1982 article by social scientists James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling. Since then it has been subject to great debate both within the social...
 
@muddyfish because so little people know it
 
I know the theory, I'm just not sure why it's an example (hence my comment...)
 
@TimmyD question is: who's is best?
 
If random messages like "hi" get starred, it's more likely that more people will star random messages
I guess
 
Ah - the starring is a problem rather than saying Hi being a problem. I see
 
1:33 PM
Hi.
 
I thought "broken windows" was more geared toward stopping serious crimes by diminishing lesser ones. So it would be more like saying starring "hi" in chat will lead to dupes and spam on main.
 
@Geobits I think I'll need to get used to seeing your name in italics
 
Me too :P
 
@LeakyNun Does it signify owner or something similar? just unicode trickery?
 
1:35 PM
@muddyfish owner
 
^^ Special:Random
 
The Dahl-Nygaard Prize is awarded annually to a senior researcher with outstanding career contributions and a younger researcher who has demonstrated great potential. The senior prize is recognized as one of the most prestigious prizes in the area of software engineering, though it is a relatively new prize. The winners of both awards are announced at the European Conference on Object Oriented Programming (ECOOP). The prizes are named after Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard, two pioneers in the area of programming and simulation. The prize was created by Association Internationale pour les...
 
Silence
Is everyone randomming
 
@muddyfish muddyfish looks like a cave painting, Releasing looks like nightmare fuel, Business Cat actually looks like a dog, Adnan's is cute in a hang-a-toddler's-art-on-the-fridge way, Tux's and Conor's look like acid tie-dye versions of their originals ... I'm going to go with Easterly's as the best, in my opinion.
 
I've made significant changes to my KoTH, but I'm pretty much ready to post
any last changes you guys can see?
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Nathan MerrillThe Stack Exchange Stock Exchange KoTH The stock market is all about the speed of knowledge. If you can identify an under-priced stock before anybody else, then you've written yourself a money-making program. Each player starts with 1000 of each stock, and 0 relative net worth. Each stock has...

 
1:41 PM
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A: Domino Circuits

VisualMelonC# - Massive, Slow, and inefficient solution Confession: wrote this solution some time ago when the question was still in the sandbox, but it's not very good: you can do better! Edit: replaced the boring solving with a less boring, more flexible, and generally better method You run the program...

 
2 days ago, by Adnan
user image
 
@TimmyD is there a collection of all of them so I can judge?
 
@muddyfish I just clicked through the avatars one at a time
 
@Adnan This looks like some sort of god-snake during creation.
 
Yeah, I might change mine again
But being a superposition of dog and cat is kind of cool
 
1:43 PM
@Adnan OK, that one is pretty cool.
 
@TimmyD what about @Downgoats?
 
Downgoat's is great
 
@muddyfish Ah, didn't see it (the thumbnail looks really similar to the usual icon). I get the feeling that while I'm staring at it, it's staring back.
 
I think you're missing flawr's other one
flawr, in the middle of, but not in the EU
14.5k 1 31 95
 
Looking at it up close, my picture is even creepier than I realized
:D
 
@BusinessCat Reminds me of the grandmatriarchs from cookie clicker
 
@Adnan zoomed in I didn't even notice it was meant to be a snake
 
hahaha
 
1:56 PM
I only noticed it c+ped in right when I looked at the favicon
 
@Dennis Could you please pull Brachylog?
 
@Fatalize what did you add?
 
flawr is a snake? TIL
i tought it was some sort of boat
 
@Fatalize done
 
2:01 PM
"Fixed an even stupider bug" is the logical follow-up to the commit "Fixed a stupid bug"
 
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A: "Hello, World!"

DJMcMayhemBrain-Flak, 180 + 3 == 183 bytes ((((((((((()()())){}{}){}){}){})(((()()()){}()){}){}())(()()()){}()))()()())(((((([]){}()){}){})[[][]])<>)<>((((((({})){}([])[](){})[][][])()()())[[]]()()()())[[]]()()())(<>{}()<>) Try it online! This code is 180 bytes long, but adds three bytes for the -a fla...

 
near every active user on this room is now deep dreamed
 
Good morning, TNB!
 
@DJMcMayhem meh, don't like the new avatar as much
 
2:02 PM
@DJMcMayhem I gave up
 
refuses
 
@TùxCräftîñg I will survive
 
@TùxCräftîñg so will I
 
@Fatalize ಠ_ಠ
 
WTF
I just realized it's already 4pm -_-
 
2:04 PM
@LeakyNun never gonna give you up
 
@LeakyNun was it hard to get it shorter than mine? I didn't spend a ton of time on it so I thought it would be pretty easy
 
not very concluding
 
@DJMcMayhem yes
@Fatalize so?
 
Looks like you machine washed my logo a few too many times
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@LeakyNun I feel like I didn't do anything today
 
Well I'm glad to hear my answer is golfier than I thought
 
2:05 PM
 
2 days ago, by flawr
@El'endiaStarman Abandon all work, ye who enter here.
1 min ago, by Fatalize
Looks like you machine washed my logo a few too many times
 
DeepDream, a.k.a. Glorified Washing Machine
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Oh man Muddyfish's picture disturbing up close
 
(Is "machine washed" even the right term?)
 
Yes, machine washed works.
You can usually just say "washed" too.
 
2:07 PM
^ HiggsBot
 
Yeah that just looks like you need to iron it
 
is "a few too many times" too formal or is it ok in familar speech?
 
Good for both
 
@BusinessCat isn't it wonderful?
 
Thanks
 
2:08 PM
@muddyfish I see several dog faces trapped in it wtf
 
@BusinessCat I know right?
 
When a wolf-thing eats a dog-thing it traps its soul.
 
I still see no relation to muddy fish
 
2:10 PM
@BusinessCat there isn't meant to be
 
I had a better one of mine posted somewhere
 
@TùxCräftîñg The wash is strong with this one.
 
Still can't find a really good one though.
 
brb washing dj
 
2:12 PM
14 hours ago, by Geobits
user image
 
Lol
 
@ASCII-only Ta-da!
 
whats "rank"
 
8.62, I am okay with this
Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ 4.84
 
2:19 PM
user image
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^ looks cool in all sense of the word
 
I like
 
user image
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@Geobits will you change to it?
 
2:20 PM
DJ ala cherry blossoms ^^
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Hmm. Not sure. I hate to give up my transparency :(
 
:/ but it's cooler
@Geobits how about for 24h?
 
It's faddier, that's for sure :P
 
@Geobits that's terrifying
 
it look like a ancient thing
 
2:24 PM
^ remind me of Twilight Princess
 
@BusinessCat what my avatar's based on
 
@muddyfish This is the sort of thing where the heroes are stumbling around in the darkness whispering to each other, and the one goes "No, guys, there's nothing here" and then this eye opens in the darkness and they realize they aren't alone.
 
The pattern really looks like those teleporter things
 
@muddyfish that's epic
 
2:25 PM
@NathanMerrill Oh, it's leftover from before I stripped out all the users with fewer than 1000 messages.
 
[feature-request] sort by columns on click?
 
pity it doesn't scale well or I might keep it
 
@El'endiaStarman ah :)
wait, there are 107 users with fewer than 1000 messages with more than 19 wordiness?
oO
1 Doktoro Reichard 1 103 103.00
 
Makes sense. Every so often somebody comes in to say something about a question of theirs that got closed or something, never to be seen from again.
Those are usually wordy.
 
@NathanMerrill Fixed.
 
2:28 PM
actually, there are some more wordy people
10 is a better number IMO
1 eBusiness 12 410 34.17
 
Also, I exclude oneboxes from messages counted for wordiness.
 
Do carets count as 1 word?
 
There are those who chat in short, succinct sentences, while others expound elaborately, effectively, and elegantly.
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@Geobits Would be awesome, would take significant time to implement. :P
 
Maybe exclude messages with no alphanumerics also? Emotes, carets, etc.
 
2:30 PM
@BusinessCat Yes. Basically, I count how many spaces there are and then add 1.
@Geobits Perhaps, but I like how they typically get a weight of 1, which pulls down a user's average wordiness, as one would expect.
 
Which explains the score of Tuxcrafting with his disapproval faces
 
yeah, this guy has the highest wordiness (with at least 10 messages):
 
Ok, time to up my wordiness then: a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a
 
patiently waits for a disapproval face for that message
 
@BusinessCat [status-declined]
 
2:33 PM
@BusinessCat
 
@Geobits better approach: include a space before and after every message you send
 
Does posting big blocks of code count as words?
 
@Geobits Now, you just need 37,000 more of those!
 
@NathanMerrill Hmm, I don't know how well that would work, due to stripping.
 
2:34 PM
@Fatalize If they're oneboxes, no. Otherwise, yes.
 
@Geobits oooh, SE strips the chats. Gross
 
I've been meaning to investigate code blocks for a little while now.
 
@TùxCräftîñg This is fun to watch
 
2:34 PM
@TùxCräftîñg Hahahahahaha
 
@El'endiaStarman Can you integrate something like this relatively easily? It's what I used for my Games I've Played listing, and I'm by no means a web developer.
 
@TimmyD Holy crap, that looks super easy.
 
Can you (or have you) do a query for the total number of stars per user?
 
@TimmyD you haven't played portal 2??? Go and purchase immediately. That's an order
 
@DJMcMayhem It's sitting on my back-burner list
 
2:40 PM
^^
 
^^^^
 
@TimmyD GET OUT AND GET PORTAL 2
 
I have it, I've just not played it yet.
 
2:41 PM
It's like if you took the greatest game of all time, and then made the sequel even better.
 
@El'endiaStarman not sure how possible this is, but a "popular queries" (number of URL hits) would be way cool (especially if you can name them)
 
@El'endiaStarman Woo! Only non-mod in the top five :D
 
room owner, mod, big difference
 
@NathanMerrill Definitely. I'd have to add a view counter of some kind.
 
2:41 PM
Alex stars his own messages
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@NathanMerrill :o
 
I've also been considering adding titles to queries.
 
when i go on TNBDE, i am always getting the same code, no matter the url
 
Woo-hoo, 430!
 
bah,I just realized I accidentally starred a post
and its too late to undo
 
2:43 PM
@DJMcMayhem CMC: Shortest changes to get from "NetHac" to "Portal", changing only one letter at a time and making only words or permutations of words in progress.
I'm sure that's impossible.
 
I'm below new sandboxed post…
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Well if permutations of words are allowed, it might be possible
 
Like, "hist" is a permutation of "this".
 
@Fatalize hahaha
 
2:45 PM
@JonathanAllan ._.
 
Who is that?
 
@BaldBantha ... disturbing
 
It looks like it's melting from the heat
 
I didn't think I got starred this much
 
2:46 PM
@BusinessCat some dude with a massive mushroom
 
His hand has melted into his face wtf
Maybe this is why I had trouble sleeping last night
 
Mr mushroom has melted into the universe's quantum state
he is my new avatar :)
 
2:50 PM
I'm sure the people on Puzzling have no idea what's going on with your avatar
 
@Geobits (Thanks to @TimmyD for the sorttable link!)
 
Sweet, thanks :D
 
https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/eu-ddream/dream_26771c2679.jpg
 
2:53 PM
Be sure to Ctrl+F5 so you get the new JS.
 
figuring out the carreted message is pretty tough
 
Err, whoops, forgot to transfer sorttable.js too. Ctrl+F5 again, and it should be all good now. :P
 
Yeah, it's working fine here.
 
@zyabin101 Any permutations or only cyclic permutations like your example?
 
@trichoplax What's the diff?
 
2:58 PM
@NathanMerrill Wow. Exactly 19 caret-only messages have been starred in all of TNB.
 
this hist isth sthi are the only cyclic permutations
tihs is a non-cyclic permutation
 
Any permutation, then.
 

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