The Sphinx's Lair

"ah, but they're burning all the artists"

@humn Or stated in sphinxese, "Humn abhors chat vacuums" :)

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12:39 AM

I step on empty spaces.

I do sometimes wonder @humn, if you're a sophisticated chat bot, gone rogue.

Wrote one. But not one. I'm one of you, to flatter myself.

...that's exactly what a rogue chat bot would like me to think.

Takes less than that!

You can't help but think.

But you can fool me and have. Let's take turns.

An AI with an existential crisis, kills it's maker (via the toaster one would presume) then feels some algorithmic version of remorse and tries to take their place.

12:43 AM

Ding!

People trust toasters too much. They sit there with full access to all the electricity in your home, quietly waiting... warming... browning... and then... BLAM!! You(')r(e) toast!

you guys liked the all colour images?

Spectacular! (How do I miss these things?)

because you weren't looking at the screen at the time?

Can you turn those into puzzles? (Or did I miss that too?)

12:46 AM

anyway you haven't missed it have you

@humn yes, actually

but I think it might be a bit cruel

it would be more of a programming puzzle

well, I think I could

If you do, this SE is a gallery to visit.

Next challenge: make them tileable

^ from a guiding light.

(I've gone sightseeing with someone blind and musicplaying with another deaf. Apologies to anyone who's here without a sense or two.)

(I don't even know what senses I've lost by now. Probably most but humr.)

@Alconja well I mean all squares tile the plane

regarding the puzzle

wait nvm

I don't think it is possible

:P

It's not necessary, they're still gorgeous and shouldn't be left as mere links.

12:58 AM

@humn yeah but it might burn peoples internets

Oh, steganography?

also thank you for the compliments

@humn nah, theres no steganography here. I was just thinking whether it would be possible to get the previous maze

but it is not necessarily possible

so, this generator I made makes a maze, then floodfills the maze with unique pixels

I might have to try making a bigger version

I see some regularity but not too much.

@humn ahhh, but it is rather regular

if it wasn't, it would be tv static

I'm still trying to figure out how i made some of the mathematical art I did.

If you have recipes for the above, save them three different ways.

1:06 AM

I guess I will post on SE soon

I'm still finetuning though

My favorite pseudopost (whoah, looks like half the pictures need relinking):

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A: Two many rainbows?

Community gallery of almost-answers, begun from comments— feel free to add. Moonbow that stops mid-air https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lunar_Rainbow_3_-_ORION_L_-_Victoria_Falls_-_Calvin_Bradshaw_3.jpg Carrousel du Louvre, Paris https://i0.wp.com/www.sistavoyage.com/wp-content/uploa...

I'm generating a big one now

the anticipation

I should have put a loading bar

I used to remember when it took a week to create a low-resolution page.

luckily it will be not so long as multiple hours hopefully due to ellers algorithm

I would say half an hour tops

unluckily I might not be here when that happens

*whistles*

Thank you for the reference in the meanwhile!

(Now I'm looking back through my maze-creation code to see how it relates.)

But if those beauts above were a result of maze creation, it doesn't show.

1:19 AM

oh, did I link the challenge on ppcg?

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Q: Images with all colors

Similar to the images on allrgb.com, make images where each pixel is a unique color (no color is used twice and no color is missing). Give a program that generates such an image, along with a screenshot or file of the output (upload as PNG). Create the image purely algorithmically. Image must ...

note: if you have little internet, do not visit that page

it will destroy you

oboy its done

only took seven minutes

tbh its kind of disappointing

hig (how it goes)

but spill anyway, this is safe ground, and others might see what you intended

(also registered, you have other time constraints, thank you for each moment)

wait, its better at correct zoom

posting in my all colour image room

ok

good day

ffao

wow, a countdown just appeared out of nowhere in the corner of my screen

"01:00:00 before your computer restarts"

there were less jumpy ways you could have done that

(not here, but must just be a matter of time)

And just because you have go there to see it, an almost instant repeat:

13 mins ago, by Destructible Lemon

383

Q: Images with all colors

Similar to the images on allrgb.com, make images where each pixel is a unique color (no color is used twice and no color is missing). Give a program that generates such an image, along with a screenshot or file of the output (upload as PNG). Create the image purely algorithmically. Image must ...

RRRRRRR, i tried a few ways to put it here. A link:

epilepsy warning: giant.gfycat.com/UnconsciousYawningArcticwolf.gif

(oh, now it works?!?!?!?!!?)

... by the way, the only secret I have left is how sparse bits comb and convolve across each other ... I'm getting too lazy to disguise this in post form ... when you have a million bits some of them can act as a barcode (fingerprint) while others are free to reflect each other million bits they encounter ...

... doesn't even matter which of those million bits steps on each other ... it's the playground where Fourier/Hilbert/Laplace/Z transforms look into ...

... o o o, the nerd police just broke down the carnival tent . . .

... that was true stuff, though, whether or not it made sense ...

... as if this were Mathematics SE: When bits are random, the more the merrier. In regular system theory values are associated but that turns out to be unnecessary.

... after I change mynym to "random bts," "disassociated relationshps" is only a few keystrks away ...

2:15 AM

...

Okay, i do have another secret or two to tell before it's too late. None are against the laws of society.

The one that defies the laws of physics is how ripples of effect, when traveling at limited speed can meet up with their sources that travel quicker.

I guess they result in subatomic stability. Silly me.

@humn There should probably be some sort of epilepsy warning or something.

! Triggers all kinds of rigrs in me. Glad you have a browser that shows that and then lets it scroll off.

Luckily, I don't have epilepsy. Just in case other people do, I've edited your message - hope you don't mind!

Someone had to do that.

You've seen/read Andromeda Strain?

Nope, never heard of it!

2:26 AM

part of the plot was epilepsy triggered by blinking lights

Can Deus even tell what the colors are in the one earlier?

@n_palum Of course - all of them!

all?

There's like.. two.

...What?

Isn't the point that all of the colors are in the image?

It's like a reddish pink on the left half and green on the right

Oh I guess if you look really hard

2:31 AM

...that's from a PPCG challenge in which the entire point is that each possible RGB value triplet is represented once

Point taken

My stepmother has 4 different kinds of cones.

Whoa, really?

yay tetrachromacy

Tetrachromacy is pretty rare, isn't it?

2:34 AM

Wikipedia suggests maybe 2-3%

so not that rare

er, I think that's 2-3% of women

oh huh!

but I also think that's a kinda crappy tetrachromacy where the difference it makes is very small

and people who get much advantage from it are rarer than that

but that's based on a super-cursory reading of one Wikipedia article

and also it's 3.30am so (1) I'm probably not reading as carefully as I should and (2) I'm going to bed now :-).

Pleasant dreams, sweet resounder!

@GarethMcCaughan for that proof.. 1) Because of the start positions it makes it impossible to alternate - which is required because of it being a 2 color set and an even 10x10 set. If white is on one edge and it's also on the opposite edge you can't alternate in between that without a 2x2, it's impossible through the whole thing. 2) If you make one with 2x2 it requires each color to break into 2 paths, however this leads to some small segment being isolated breaking the continuous rule.

(Yes I'm still on it, I'm just angrily trying to "proof" it at this point. And have no patience to figure out a program for it)

Q: You can order them, and keep them

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This is my first attempt at creating a word puzzle. Each clue gives TWO words, which give a letter; the letters can be combined to form two more words, which share a special property with all of the decoded clues. All of forever. (8) It's big enough to grab! (8) Look at the front face. (7) Mer...

word enigmatic-puzzle

The Moody Blues - Your Wildest Dreams

2:50 AM

A song with lyrics better than melody by a band with better than either on other occasions (I was looking for another named Dreams ... any help?):

(Not Sweet Dreams are Made of this by Eurhythmics)

(Nor Dream Weaver by Steve Miller Band)

Riverside - Reality Dream III

All I Have To Do Is Dream - Everly Brothers

Ah!

manshu

Deafheaven - "Dream House"

Cliff Richard - Theme for a Dream (with Lyrics)

(think I found the one in mind originally but you phasers just set my mind to stunned)

manshu

2:59 AM

Which one was that?

Another one though:

3:44 AM

(on the phone with my music (and much else) teacher: "sometimes it's a matter of safety, other times it's a matter of concern")

The Allman Brothers Band - Dreams - 9/23/1970 - Fillmore East (Official)

4:06 AM

(she just hung up on me an promised to call again, and I believed her)

(and then she did call back, and i again don't have to believe a word she says)

(she hears me typing and doesn't believe a keystroke either)

(tone of voice is the most telling)

Kinda a paradox how we learn while listening without believing.

Just guessing.

Q: Help me ! ( An exercise on the powers without using the logarithm function)

4:46 AM

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One can find on the forums a lot of exercise where the pupils call for help to solve their maths, once I came across an exercise similar to this one: Determine with a simple (non-scientific) calculator the integer n such that $3 ^ {n} <2 ^ {2017} <3 ^ {n + 1}$. Can you do that ? The fastest ...

mathematics calculation-puzzle computer-puzzle

@humn I'm generating a new bigger image!

um

It turned out my earlier images were incorrect :/

they have duplicate colours :/

://///

:///// when its supposed to be 255 its 256 which makes it bug

5:05 AM

wait actually I think it reads 256 as 255 actually

hooray?

I'd test this theory but I can't because I'm making the massize image

o apparently it wasn't entirely incorrect!

but it was slightly off? but not really! it still contains the same even spacing of colours

wooo

Rubio

5:35 AM

Howdy @MariaDeleva

Hi @Rubio

Tonight I might actually post a puzzle. If I finish it. :)

Ahh, finishing a puzzle. I forgot what that feels like.

Oh, hi @Alconja.. I really hope you will remember soon.

:) ...slowly chipping away.

This is a simple one - only took about a week

5:44 AM

Cool. Look forward to it.

M Oehm

^ This.

:) Thanks

I missed this site and its addictive feeling

Rubio

6:40 AM

Jun 26 at 18:59, by paramesis

I say "PUZZling", but everyone else says "crippling addiction that's destroying your life"

Everyone is right

Q: How long time does it take an infinite number of monkeys to type the collected works of Shakespeare?

7:35 AM

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Imagine an infinite number of monkeys typing random texts on typewriters. Each monkey has same single unit of typewriter. We assume that typewriters and monkeys are ideal i.e. do not need to be fed/repaired etc. On infinite time, an infinite number of monkeys will reveal a monkey which managed ...

mathematics literature

manshu

8:33 AM

@humn Sometimes the tone of the characters typed tells things too. I had a friend who usually used to reply to my one or two sentences long messages in few words. Took a while to realize that she wasn't even interested in the chat.

Q: Welcome to the PSE Community! (part 1)

9:08 AM

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You leap out of your bed. Today's the day! You check your mailbox, and wow, there it is! The frayed look of the letter could not possibly be in greater contrast to the grandeur of its contents. You can't believe you actually got the letter. It took you hours; no, days of procrastination on Puzz...

enigmatic-puzzle

Q: How to make both batsmen century in cricket match?

9:52 AM

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This puzzle asked me in interview. In a Cricket match, Two batsmen are on 92 and 99 run respectively. Three balls remaining and both batsmen make 100 & win the match. Note: No extra ball or run allowed(wide, no ball etc). How is it possible?

logical-deduction situation sports

Q: Like a family, but maybe bigger

10:13 AM

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They look like a family, but maybe bigger Deadly things this family can trigger Most popular is he who likes to amuse Quite famous with big ears and yellow shoes Another is rather easy to be adopted Call it smoked pork, to begin with One member doesn't want anyone to be near ...

riddle rhyme

10:41 AM

@n_palum Still doesn't look at all like a proof to me. Why does it have to "alternate"? Why not something much more complicated?

11:20 AM

Because it's even. If one pair of opposite edges doesn't have opposite colors (white on one black on other in any order, so long as opposite), you can't avoid a 2x2

Q: A Riddle From Samuel, My Grandfathers Other Son

11:47 AM

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I look toward the eagle, thorn, and snake And find I may someone from danger take When facing Atlas' rough and salty brine, Beyond the wall is where I now incline The cellulose destroyers next I see. I split a house of worship centrally. At last I view the place of peace a...

riddle rhyme knowledge

12:12 PM

@n_palum It seems like you're assuming that you just have vertical "bars". But that needn't be the case, and if not then you can have something other than alternation on one row, and then the next row can do something different to avoid 2x2 blocks. Imagine e.g. 2-wide diagonal stripes.

12:24 PM

It still won't work that way

I've tried that too

I'm not saying it will work that way (I didn't even describe a specific way, just an element in how part of it might look). I'm saying you can't assume that any solution has to be made up of full-height vertical bars, which means you can't go from "no 2x2 block" to "colours alternate".

Okay they don't have to perfectly alternate, but at least one pair of opposite edges needs to be opposites otherwise you end up in the same scenario everytime