@MartinBüttner plus there is the extra limitation that a tag needs at least 100 questions to be eligible for tag badge (see meta.stackexchange.com/a/68395/200089) which currently apply only to 6 of our tags...
@plannapus Huh, I didn't know that. But so far I'm only waiting for code-golf and popularity-contest badges anyway. For the latter I've got almost 400 upvotes (which would be enough for a silver badge) but only 10 answers (which isn't even enough for bronze).
@overactor I'm getting a bunch of exceptions for your submission.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 340
at java.lang.String.charAt(String.java:658)
at ShallowBlue.getCharAt(ShallowBlue.java:244)
at ShallowBlue.calculateMove(ShallowBlue.java:181)
at ShallowBlue.getBestMove(ShallowBlue.java:46)
at ShallowBlue.getBestMove(ShallowBlue.java:30)
at ShallowBlue.getBestMove(ShallowBlue.java:30)
at ShallowBlue.getBestMove(ShallowBlue.java:30)
at ShallowBlue.getBestMove(ShallowBlue.java:30)
at ShallowBlue.getBestMove(ShallowBlue.java:30)
@plannapus Yours is also giving me errors:
Error in area[1, 1]:area[2, 1] : result would be too long a vector
Calls: %in% -> match
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In min(x) : no non-missing arguments to min; returning Inf
2: In max(x) : no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf
3: In min(x) : no non-missing arguments to min; returning Inf
4: In max(x) : no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf
Execution halted
Problem in submission #2 (getMove): no output received
Error in area[1, 1]:area[2, 1] : result would be too long a vector
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 71
at java.lang.String.charAt(String.java:658)
at ShallowBlue.getCharAt(ShallowBlue.java:244)
at ShallowBlue.getNeighboringMatches(ShallowBlue.java:207)
at ShallowBlue.getBestMove(ShallowBlue.java:43)
at ShallowBlue.getBestMove(ShallowBlue.java:30)
at ShallowBlue.getBestMove(ShallowBlue.java:30)
at ShallowBlue.getBestMove(ShallowBlue.java:30)
at ShallowBlue.getBestMove(ShallowBlue.java:30)
at ShallowBlue.main(ShallowBlue.java:15)
IBAN validator
Write a program (can be either a function or a code snippet) that accepts a string of alphanumeric characters and validates it according to ISO 13616:2007. The algorithm for validation is (source: wikipedia article on IBAN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Bank_Account_Nu...
king-of-the-hill
Author note: Another KotH challenge, aimed at being slightly easier than my previous one (because I just realized how complicated it was).
Caveman Duels (or: Me poke you with sharp stick)
Caveman mad. Other caveman take stick but stick was for me. Caveman fight!
Descripti...
I recently posted a question to codegolf which did not have a well formulated win criterion. However, I did receive some answers to the question.
Because the question is on hold due to "off-topic", and further "Questions without an objective primary winning criterion..", I guess I should try to ...
@PeterTaylor Detecting whether there is a legal move is too hard. For example, in 122\n222\n222, 1 has no legal moves, but testing for this for every player for every turn would take too long.
@overactor Yes, I'll include clarification about that in the edit I'm about to make
It's a linear scan, which should be faster than the I/O and process overhead, so unless all of the matches go down to the wire it seems reasonable to hope it would be a net speed-up.
Not always, no. Although I'm not sure how much that's because I'm getting used to the way you express yourself. I remember that when you first showed up we had a lot of mutual misunderstandings.
What is our policy regarding closing an old challenge as a duplicate of a new one?
I know this happens on other sites (at least SO), if the newer question is generally better or usually if it gathers better answers (such that the old one acts as a "redirect" to the canonical answer). Now this do...
I think it's a bit unfortunate that this question was asked in the context of two rather similar scoring systems and is now used as a reference on community consensus.
I agree with the existing answers, that a question is a duplicate if answers from an old one can be reused on the new one. Howev...
o.O
you can edit deleted chat messages, but you can't undelete them afterwards
Recently I found something else interesting: if you onebox a deleted chat message, the content of that message is shown (if you are the owner of that deleted message).
Arithmetic mean - affected by any outliers Min - affected by low outliers Max - affected by high outliers Geometric mean with two outliers removed - affected when there are two outliers on the high side or two outliers on the low side Median - affected when there are three two outliers on the high side or three outliers on the low side
Actually, your chart was scaled differently. I didn't notice it earlier
One of them had a spread of nearly 5000. The one that appeared more random was actually much more tightly grouped
A simple average varied from 1800 to 100000. A geometric mean using only the three middle scores ranged from 1700 to 5000. The median ranged from 1700 to 2900.
When you zoom in on the graph (because the scale shrunk), it looks more random
regarding that meta answer... was that downvote yours (in conjunction with the comment)? if so, was it only for the "delete vote" part or for the rest of it, too?
Here was the caveat that you said all other answers failed to cover: "I think for the new challenge to qualify as a duplicate, those old answers also have to be competitive."
@MartinBüttner Ok, maybe I focused too much on the last paragraph, where it looks like you are proposing that we punish answers that are copied and pasted. And even on a second read, that does seem reasonable (unless it was the same author)
I'm not allowed to install the product on my own machine, because it breaks what we call a "clean dev environment". So when I debug the installer, I just put Foos and Bars everywhere
The sad part is, I'm not allowed to check in code until I get a code review
king-of-the-hill
Author note: Another KotH challenge, aimed at being slightly easier than my previous one (because I just realized how complicated it was).
Caveman Duels (or: Me poke you with sharp stick)
Caveman mad. Other caveman take stick but stick was for me. Caveman fight!
Descripti...
