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Q: Setka - Complete grid using clues and sudoku-style logic

Setka GamesHow to play Setka, the short version: Answer each clue using only Puzzle Letters and vowels. Clue answers, minus vowels and duplicate letters, go in the corresponding boxes in the grid. Only Puzzle Letters go in the grid! Puzzle Letters can be entered forward/backward/up/down/L-shape, but not ...

 
 
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Avi
2:58 AM
soooo
is it [reverse-puzzling] or [reverse-puzzling]! time?
 
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Q: The cat became his prize

Ébe Isaac Had no choice but to leave his ground The foe took him by surprise With his food and shelter lost to the beast The cat became his prize What is the word referred here?

 
 
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5:00 AM
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Q: Just curious as to why the revival badge was not awarded for this question

Ébe IsaacThe following is the condition stated to receive the revival badge: Answer more than 30 days after a question was asked as first answer scoring 2 or more I believe the condition was met for my post for the following question Which is the missing number? Am I missing something here?

 
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Q: Constructing an island according to rules in Smullyan's "What is the Name of this Book"

JustinI've recently finished dropping my jaw at Raymond Smullyan's "What is the Name of this Book," and the section on Gödel's incompleteness theorem, involving islands of knights (truthers) and knaves (liars), was absolutely astonishing. Problem 268c in the book is not given a solution; in it, Smullya...

 
 
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7:28 AM
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Q: Two shapes that cover a 4x4 grid with any 1x2 missing

Dmitry KamenetskyCan you find two geometrical shapes with the following property: If you remove any 1x2 rectangle from a 4x4 grid, then the remaining area can be exactly covered with the two shapes. What do these two shapes look like? This puzzle was inspired by this one: Cover 63 squares of a chess board

 
 
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9:30 AM
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Q: On The Subject of Bitmaps

Deusovi (This is part of a series of puzzles written for Timwi for a Secret Santa puzzle exchange, themed around various custom modules for the game Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. No KTaNE knowledge is necessary for any of these puzzles except the final meta; each puzzle resolves to a single word or ...

 
 
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12:53 PM
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Q: A Demetri Puzzle

hexominoApparently, yesterday was National Puzzle Day (in the US, I think). As part of the celebration, American comedian Demetri Martin posted a puzzle on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemetriMartin/status/1222580168692260866/photo/1 I won't share the image here because I'm not sure about permissions. T...

 
1:34 PM
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Q: Another Rook's Tour

Bernardo Recamán SantosPlace numbers 1 to 100 in the cells of this 10 x 10 board in such a way that consecutive numbers, and also numbers 1 and 100, occupy neighboring cells (either vertically or horizontally). Prime numbers should occupy grey cells, while square numbers should go on green cells.

 
1:54 PM
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Q: What/Who is it?

Jeril NadarFrom higher plane do I see, One side yellow streams of rays do I see, One side red streams of rays do I see, The speed of rays I can feel!!! Can you guess what do I see?

 
 
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3:07 PM
sorry for the interruption, but does anyone here happen to know some python (or tensorflow)? thanks a lot coz this has been frustrating me for the whole night...
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Q: ImportError and AttributeError for TensorFlow

Omega Krypton Background I'm trying to work on a GAN neural network (I'm a beginner for both Python and Machine-Learning), and I need Tensorflow. Problem I have tried to use TensorFlow but can't install. I have read questions and answers on SO about various errors, and have tested out those solutio...

 
Avi
hmmm
I personally wouldn't recommend on a Windows system
however it's probably possible if you install Ubuntu
and then run it through there?
either way, you'll be jumping through some hoops
installing things is a pain on Windows, and installing NVIDIA stuff can be a pain on Linux
 
Windows installations aren't a pain, they're super simple
 
Avi
haha
very funny
 
Unless you're talking about a specific program, then I don't know, but generally installations are easy
 
Avi
you're probably thinking about .exes
 
3:16 PM
Or .msi what are you referring to?
 
Avi
like, language packages etc.
dependencies for software, basically
 
Typically said software has the means of installing that for itself though
You must have something more specific in mind I'd imagine, because the "worst" I've had to do was manually extract a zip file for an installation
 
Avi
lololol
In Windows it's more like
Step 1: Install software
Step 2: Software fails inexplicably
Step 3: Go on StackOverflow, and fix the inexplicable software fail
Step 4: Software fails explicably
Step 5: Go on StackOverflow, and find that you need to install a software to fix the error message
 
You have terrible luck or you pick your software poorly because I've never had that issue with anything, and I use Windows exclusively
 
Avi
Step 6: Flip coin. If heads, recurse on step 1. If tails, it works
@dcfyj ... or I'm a software engineer and these kinds of things happen all the time
you learn to deal with it
 
3:25 PM
As am I, and I've never had that issue lol. If it's my own code I just debug it, but I've not had someone else's code give me that much grief
 
Avi
hmmmm
 
@Avi Oh, it sounds like you're dealing with XP
 
Or that lol
 
Avi
@North It's windows 10 that gives me more trouble, honestly
 
I have no clue what you use, but clearly it doesn't like you lol
 
Avi
3:26 PM
For example, one time my program inexplicably stopped being able to detect elements on-screen
 
The only real problem I've had with Windows 10 is updating it
 
The program itself or the environment?
 
But I'm not a software engineer by any means
 
Avi
It turned out that Windows 10 has a new thing where it auto-changes the size of things (my default was 150%, it turns out) to handle resolutions becoming better
 
10 updates itself unless you turn it off, and I don't remember if you even can
 
Avi
3:27 PM
Therefore, all my pixel-based image detection died horribly
 
@dcfyj By problems I just mean sometimes it takes waaaaaaay too long to update
 
Ah, yeah, I don't use screen pixel locations typically, if anything I opt for location on the form
@North meh, that's not a problem, just an inconvenience
Random side note: TIL that GaMen is still in use haha
 
@dcfyj It's a problem when it's 11:57 and you need to turn your assignment in by 11:59
 
This is why you don't procrastinate :P
 
Haha
 
3:31 PM
Alternatively, postpone the update until after you've turned in your assignment
 
true
 
Unless it's dire, I usually postpone updates for weeks before I bother restarting my pc
 
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Q: 99 numbers on the blackboard

ThomasLThe numbers 1,2,3, ..., 99 are written on the blackboard. Alice and Bob play the following game, taking turns. Alice starts. At every turn, each player removes one number until two numbers are remaining. If the sum of those two numbers is divisible by 7, Alice wins otherwise Bob. Who has a wi...

 
Avi
@dcfyj Usually in my free time I write game bots so it's not an option to do reflective-y form stuff
 
anyone alive down for codenames?
 
3:48 PM
@Avi I'm sure there are ways to check the current resolution and whatnot, but I digress, I'm sure you fixed that much unexpected issue :P
 
Avi
yeah
but it would've been preferable to avoid the issue entirely
windows always screws me over
one time I made some minor changes to a bot and went to bed
it turned out the changes were super effective (top 1% performance) but insignificant enough that I was going to put them on version control when I woke up
I wake up to find that I'm on Linux - Windows had forcibly shut down the machine to do its stupid updates
I never managed to get that kind of performance again...
If I had 1 penny for every time the stupid forcible shutdown had screwed me over
I'd be ~20 cents richer
each time in some different way than the last
the only time Linux messed me up was when I tried to install NVIDIA drivers without having enough memory on the partition, and that was pretty much my fault
 
4:13 PM
You know you can turn off updates right?
 
Avi
THEY WERE OFF
I have tried to suppress them as much as possible
then they spring up again at the worst possible time
Windows updates are like whack-a-mole but way more annoying
 
Weird
You have terrible luck lol
 
Avi
yeah...
 
4:30 PM
I'm not sure if your luck is worse than when my wife is playing days gone lol, she gets a crap ton of screamers,breakers, and reachers spawning around her all the time (like 5+ of each)
 
Avi
oh, never played that game :x
 
Those 3 are some of the nastier things you'll run into, thought none in the early game
 
5:17 PM
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Q: Heart of steel!

Ébe Isaac Starting with a way to combine what you choose Hope not too short for you to lose Then a short delay Wait there if you may Take one more step It's far more than a day Who am I?

 
5:58 PM
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Q: Shape into a spindle

Ébe Isaac Start with a way to merge what you choose Hope not too short for you to lose Then a short delay Wait there if you may Take one more step For an aeon you'll stay Who am I?

 
Avi
6:28 PM
Attach incomplete crane to make a statement (9) - AFFI(-x) + DAVIT
surface is sketch
 
What's a davit?
 
Avi
a crane
for small boats I believe
 
ah ok
 
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Q: My friend got poisoned but I didn't

melfntLast night I went to a bar with my roommate. We ordered the same drink (Campari spritz of course) and I quickly begin to drink mine. My friend is much slower than me: when I finished my drink they had barely drink a quarter of their so I order another drink (another Campari spritz of course). Wh...

 
6:59 PM
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Q: Can I swap two "yellow" corners on the same side?

EmmaThe bottom two layers are solved, and the cross has been formed on the bottom layer. I am putting the corners in, ready to orientate them correctly, but I have two corners which need swapping. (The 719 and 341 corners on front and back left so it has the right orientation to the centre piece bein...

 
Avi
beautiful
 
7:39 PM
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Q: What is an Authentic Word™?

AviThis is in the spirit of the What is a Word™/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles. If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it an Authentic Word™. Use the examples below to find the rule. $$ % set Title text. (spaces around the text ARE importa...

 
 
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Avi
9:48 PM
hmmmm
is it a good idea to post a mensa brain teaser
so I can get the "Peer Pressure" badge?
 
10:03 PM
No.
 

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