@MartinBüttner Just for fun I unearthed a couple of "gems" (read: turds). On the guitar, me at 18 and me at 16. The latter was recorded to cassette using a karaoke machine in my parents' garage. Maybe don't add those to your list. :P
@aditsu MMIX is too big for PPCG challenges IMO, you'd have to learn MMIX to be able to compete in such a challenge - anyone should be able to instantly get to work in GOLF
"The remaining 25 bits each tell you whether or not that register should be restored, with the least significant bit being a, and the most significant bit y."
Suicidal entries to King-of-the-Hill challenges.
EmoWolf was funny the first time, but it's getting out of hand.
While some not-too-serious answers are often necessary to kickstart a king-of-the-hill challenge, purely suicidal answers put in little effort and tend to get more upvotes than serio...
one occasion I can think of, is choosing who would post the (not quite) Bi-Weekly challenges when there is no agreement - then no one can be accused to choosing the result of a private dice role to suit themselves
Background
This puzzle is a variation on the four fours puzzle (itself the topic of a past question). Like that puzzle, the aim is to find mathematical expressions for different whole numbers, using only four digits and certain mathematical operators. In this case, however, the permitted digits ...
@PhiNotPi you could make the order case-insensitive and have upper case letters indicate that the character should be kept, and lower case that it shouldn't (then ignoring whether the group is split or not)
so:
xxxxxxx
aAbBcBa
-->
xx x
xxx x
x xx
this would let you choose which brackets to retain and which not
or people who like building up the entire code line by line, could just use upper-case for everything
92, ~2300 bytes
I'm a bit sad this is a code golf challenge, as I feel that all my previous efforts have been rather useless now that I'll post this:
0 = ((2*0)^15)
1 = ((2^0)^15)
2 = (2-(0^15))
3 = (20*.15)
4 = (20*(1/5))
5 = (20-15)
6 = ((.20+1)*5)
7 = ((20*.1)+5)
8 = (2*((0...
The Two-zero-one-five puzzle was intended as a Kolmogorov-complexity code-golf challenge: the task is to generate and print arithmetic expressions for as many numbers between 0 and 100. Unfortunately, I'd overestimated the size of the output (and underestimated the size of a winning program), mea...
@PeterTaylor So, just to come back to those partitions. Would you say that ordered and unordered partitions should be collected under the same tag? I think that's probably fine, because I'm sure there are a probably a few more fine-grained alternative definitions of set partitions anyway.
btw the 3% idea was excellent, since I don't think I've mentioned that yet
@TheNumberOne I think quite a lot of people did - I held off submitting until I had a good algorithm (which never happened). aditsu got it with binary search though.
Roguelike to Text Adventure Converter
code-golf ascii-art string game
Warning: this code-golf challenge may be on the big side for many. Still, the steps are all modular and individually golfable, and the end result is (I think) worth it.
Meta-comment: any suggestions for a different scoring m...
@MartinBüttner I don't think it's going to be such a heavily used tag that it needs subdivision between order and unordered. Or that anyone is going to want to follow questions in only one half of that subdivision.
i have the standard format FAQ question open, though! haha
basically, write a bot which accepts a string of a view of the board, then outputs a string with a move
goal is to survive as long as possible. possible actions: move left, right, up, or down (if there's nothing supporting you, you fall, possibly to your death); drop a rock (which might fall on and kill a bot, including you if you drop up); throw a rock (to destroy a bot and/or rock in the throw path); or rest
also you want to dodge the falling meteors
i have an animated gif replay of a default bot game, though for some reason it's not working correctly...
That sounds quite fun. :) But what's stopping you from answering a code golf or two to get the 5 rep you need for the sandbox? (Or suggest two helpful edits)