@PeterTaylor It looks like the domino golf didn't really strike a chord. Do you think it's still worth to write up a draft for a code-challenge to minimise a domino circuit? To give people a head start I could provide non-minimised versions of a few gates, so people could start by just chaining those together if they wanted to.
you can build logical circuits with dominos. in fact, the third input example for the golf challenge is an AND gate (check out different combinations of toppling other the two left most dominoes). the idea is to make a challenge where you're given a truth table (basically a boolean function with n inputs and m outputs) and you are to produce a domino circuit with as few dominoes as possible.
I'm just thinking a the domino circuit thing would probably also not be too popular because it would probably be quite difficult. it contains both minimising a logical circuit and converting that into a minimal domino grid... in fact there might even be a solution where you can't even distinguish the gates any more.
also, there is the problem that domino lanes can't cross as it stands. I'd have to add forwarders (x and + or just one catch-all *) which don't fall themselves but propagate any push one cell further ahead
I have to include PeriodicalCicadaCaveman anyway, so I'm just going to rerun the entire thing and include the fixed version of yours as well. Sorry for the weirdness :/
according to the tag wikis the only difference is that graphical-output doesn't include ascii art but the other one does, which seems like a minor difference since we have an ascii-art tag anyway
ah it's the other way round
1250 rep for suggesting but only 5 answer score for voting
It seems like many users who want to do a fastest-code challenge don't really think about it how they actually measure "fastness". And then usually a short discussion develops in the comments laying out two possibilities:
Scoring by runtime on a benchmark of test cases.
Scoring by asymptotic co...
I started writing up a draft for Domino Circuits... it's already growing so long again and I even skipped most of the detailed spec from Domino Day in favour of an exhaustive list of possible pushes. :-/ But then again, Vector Racing was also quite popular despite a very lengthy post.
is it much different or are there just a few additional lines? if there are just a few additional lines, you could post them separately at the end, and write where to insert them to produce the gif
yeah, I don't really have a clue what I'm doing with the rendering, I just tried font and image sizes until it fitted. No idea if it'll fit on anyone else machine ;)
if you want to generate a larger GIF, try ruby -e "15.times{30.times{print ['|','-','/','\\'].sample};puts}" in the console (where 30 is the width and 15 is the height of the grid)
well and then experiment with replacing one or two dominoes with a letter
In one of my oldest codes, I wrote exactly the same code in a try and catch statement. The worst thing about that is that I, when I wrote that code, did not know why it kept giving errors...
@ProgramFOX Speaking of try and catch. A friend of mine (in our final BSc project) implemented a function to peek at the second element on a stack using try-finally
after seeing this question codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/34931/… I was thinking about posting a similar one, but for the rigorous grammar of the language myself and a friend defined
I was then wondering if it would be unjust to get the good people of CodeGolf.SE to write us a new word verifier (you give it a word, it tells you if it is valid) because the one I wrote 4 years ago is somewhat out of date
@VisualMelon The Python program is Earth, set to find the Ultimate Question. The Vogons destroy it before it finishes; The people who made Earth disguise as Trillian's Mice and try to find the question from the minds of a person in the Matrix. He's gone though, so they make one up, taking it from a Bob Dylan song.
another friend of ours wrote a cute JS thing so we could have TCP work in our blog tim32.org/blog/post.php?id=151 (click the cute arrow image things IF YOU DARE)
@Trimsty I haven't been active on SO for ages now (except for one answer in March), but I left so many answers behind, that I probably got the last 2k rep from trickling votes ^^
(it's how Jon Skeet hits his rep cap every day at 3am)
(I'm sorry I spoiled it for you, would you still have played it with 8 answers? :P)
actually, I might be responsible for even more answers, as it's questionable whether it would have hit HNQ so fast with only 2 instead of 6 answers after half an hour
I don't mean that the actual number of answers made it uninteresting. I mean the type of question that attracts that many answers so quickly. While I agree that some silly/nonsense/not-really-trying-to-win answers are probably good for a koth, the ratio on this one seems a bit high.
It's just too easy to throw "something" at it without trying.
The top two voted answers(with 6 and 7 votes) right now are literally "pick a random letter".
It seems like many users who want to do a fastest-code challenge don't really think about it how they actually measure "fastness". And then usually a short discussion develops in the comments laying out two possibilities:
Scoring by runtime on a benchmark of test cases.
Scoring by asymptotic co...
