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7:00 PM
 
The glowing eyes are a nice touch.
 
^ that really is terrifying
 
@Calvin'sHobbies NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! D: D: D:
 
Okay, I've actually got a scary avatar now
 
@Calvin This is a more appropriate picture
 
7:06 PM
@BetaDecay AAAAAAAAAAAA? O_o
 
@Doorknob Correct :D
 
Wow. Too spooky.
 
@Calvin'sHobbies Sidevoting confirmed
2
 
7:08 PM
@Calvin'sHobbies Psychadelic bits
 
Endless downvotes
 
Supposedly there is a falafel truck parked across the street from my building. If this turns out to be a myth, I'll be pissed.
 
how do I change my photo? :3
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Delete your profile and make a new one
 
Thanks @Calvin'sHobbies
 
Maybe for Halloween I'll dress as someone who doesn't troll chat constantly.
 
@AlexA. You and Dennis should switch avatars and names
 
Haha
 
7:14 PM
(Sorry @Dennis)
 
I'll have to learn CJam.
I would be outed immediately if I were to post a Julia answer as Dennis.
 
Or that you gained 30k rep overnight
 
Or that
> Doordong
 
There, much better.
 
Damn Latex editor not cooperating...
Gives up
 
7:25 PM
What have you been trying to achieve?
I know some latex, perhaps I might help=)
 
It's not Latex, just the online editor not letting me post the result here.
 
What editor are you using?
 
Ah, there.
That's my horrifying Halloween picture.
 
[twitch]
 
7:29 PM
@Zgarb You might like this title too if you know latex=)
 
Like that?
user image
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[twitch]
 
 
1
Q: Iterated partial sums

xnorThe partial sums of a list of integers [a1, a2, a3, ..., an] are s1 = a1 s2 = a1 + a2 s3 = a1 + a2 + a3 ... sn = a1 + a2 + ... + an We can then take the list of partial sums [s1, s2, s3, ..., sn] and compute its partial sums again to produce a new list, and so on. Related: Iterated forward d...

 
7:35 PM
I do not get how to directly include those pictures=/
 
Stick a ! before the URL
 
is wrong
 
@MartinBüttner A single built-in for the entire task! o_O Is there anything Mathemaica doesn't have?
 
@Calvin'sHobbies For all gamma there exists chi such that Alex is wrong.
 
So where's the dead bird avatar?
 
7:39 PM
What dead bird avatar?
I prefer not to face my own mortality.
 
You're not going spooky?
 
Oh I'll get spoopy.
 
No, I clearly didn't say spoopy :P
 
@Calvin'sHobbies That's what you get when you try binaural beats for meditation; theta waves in your eyes.
 
7:40 PM
@flawr There's a Project Euler problem based on this.
 
@El'endiaStarman Really?
@El'endiaStarman I made a challenge out of this a while ago. (Yes I should have required the participants to ignore the trivial cases.)
 
@flawr Lemme go find it.
 
Why do I have a blue (2) on the top left of my avatar????
 
@flawr Spam flags
 
because flags
 
7:44 PM
Ninja'd
 
Oh, is this if you reach a certain rep? Or has it always been that way?
 
10k
network-wide, combined
 
Must have recently hit 10k network-wide. Congrats :D
 
^
 
Ah ok, that might explain it, thanks=)
 
7:44 PM
congrats :)
 
Uze yer powerz wizely.
 
Or don't
 
Ok... or just glance at the funny/strange/innocent things people flag and ignore them.
 
@Geobits flagged as "said by Geobits"
 
This just reminded me, that I quit my last job at the beginning of this year:
 
7:47 PM
@Doorknob Seems legit
 
I'm not sure which of these observations have already been made about the squares with constant 2x2 sums which @Calvin'sHobbies raised half a day ago but...
1. Given three corners of a (2i+1)x2 rectangle, the fourth is determined.
2. Given three corners of a 3x3 square, the fourth is determined.
3. A (2i)x(2j) rectangle which works also works when wrapping toroidally.
4. Perhaps as a consequence of 3, it seems that (2i)x(2i) squares using values 0 to (4i^2 - 1) have only one possible 2x2 sum, whereas (2i+1)x(2i+1) squares support a range.
 
5. The number of squares seems to grow pretty fast. I make it 47 3x3 squares using 0 to 8 (once I take into account the symmetry group of the square), but over 1.5 million 6x6 squares using 0 to 35. (Had to abort that run after a bit over an hour).
 
Yup. It's one of those sequences that goes "BOOM".
 
Your points agree with our findings. (@Sp3000 @El'endiaStarman @feersum)
 
7:55 PM
Aye.
 
Haha=)
 
Incidentally, my OEIS account has been approved!
 
Link?
 
Uh oh
 
I also found out that you can submit a "table" sequence by going through the anti-diagonals.
 
7:56 PM
Yes
 
I'll do that for this problem.
 
@PeterTaylor Think an odd by odd toroidal is possible?
 
Given that the table has symmetry around the main diagonal, it might be better to submit a triangle.
 
Yeah, that's what I'd prefer to do.
 
@Calvin'sHobbies The thought had crossed my mind, and although I haven't analysed it in detail it seems unlikely.
 
7:57 PM
I'm not totally sure how to specify that it's a triangle.
 
I kinda want an OEIS account, but the whole "real name" and "personal biography" requirement spooks me away.
 
The "personal biography" doesn't have to be much at all.
 
Biography: Hello
 
@AlexA. Has to be at least 5 words.
 
Hello, my name is X
 
7:59 PM
@PhiNotPi You can create an account and use your real name but don't link it here so no one will know it's PhiNotPi.
 
@PeterTaylor I'm pretty sure there are no 3x3 ones and I couldn't find any 5x5 after searching for ages
 
@Calvin'sHobbies there seems to be no solution with distinct letters using normal words
 
@PeterTaylor What's the J stand for?
 
@aditsu My words are normal :(
 
8:00 PM
@Geobits Ut?
 
@AlexA. A guy's gotta have some mystery.
 
@PeterTaylor :P
 
@AlexA. ... for some definition of normal.
 
@Geobits :P
 
J stands for Jiggly
 
8:01 PM
@PhiNotPi Peter Jiggly Taylor?
 
IIRC the only reason I included the J is that that's how my name appears in my first published paper, because the editor said words to the effect of "We've got a different Peter Taylor as the author of a paper in the previous edition; do you have a middle initial to make it clear that you're not the same person?"
 
*Jigglypuff
 
@Geobits only 5 out of 9
 
@aditsu Have you really been searching? Any close ones?
 
@Calvin'sHobbies yeah, I think I found something with only 2 gibberish words, not sure about only 1
 
8:03 PM
@aditsu Which five are you counting? I'd say only two are borderline.
 
@Geobits an, urn, stay, arm, pony
 
sump is definitely a word, normally used as "sump pump"
 
never heard of it
 
@PeterTaylor I don't have this problem; Though Alex(ander) is very common first name, Arslan is not a common last name, at least in the US.
 
@aditsu You're not a car fanatic, obviously.
 
8:04 PM
@aditsu It sucks poop out of your basement.
 
@AlexA. There are about a dozen Peter Taylors who have Wikipedia pages.
 
That doesn't make them "not words"... I didn't have to look any of them up while putting the triangle together, for example.
 
@AlexA. I don't have a basement, and if I had, it would not contain poop
 
@aditsu Because you'd have a sump pump
 
A sump pump is a pump used to remove water that has accumulated in a water collecting sump basin, commonly found in the basement of homes. The water may enter via the perimeter drains of a basement waterproofing system, funnelling into the basin or because of rain or natural ground water, if the basement is below the water table level. Sump pumps are used where basement flooding happens regularly and to solve dampness where the water table is above the foundation of a home. Sump pumps send water away from a house to any place where it is no longer problematic, such as a municipal storm drain or...
Hm. Unfortunately it seems to be unrelated to feces.
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8:06 PM
Are you saying you were.... wrong?
 
@aditsu Anyway, I'd love to see some "pure" solutions regardless of letter distinctness. The most normal words can win.
 
I would need to start over :p
 
@PeterTaylor Peter A. Taylor, Peter B. Taylor, Peter C. Taylor, Peter D. Taylor, Peter E. Taylor, Peter F. Taylor, Peter G. Taylor, Peter H. Taylor, Peter I. Taylor, Peter K. Taylor, Peter L. Taylor, and Peter M. Taylor.
 
Yea, it's really hard to do that way. Not enough two-letter words are considered normal ;)
 
to allow duplicate letters
 
8:07 PM
Well I did mine by hand :P
 
@Geobits actually there are enough of those
 
    T
   O F
  G O O
 S O T S
 
I did mine by hand, too. Well, by notepad++ anyway.
 
@Geobits You didn't use Notepad++?
 
or vim?
oh, well since you are chatting here, I assume you don't use vim
 
8:08 PM
Or Eclipse?
 
And I don't mean there are technically not enough of them. Just that it's hard to cram them in and go for most words/letters.
 
@Optimizer Doorknob loves vim
Like, a lot.
 
@AlexA. yeah, but since his vim is in his browser, he does not need to quit vim
 
if not for the corners, I would have dozens of solutions :p
 
like he can
 
8:09 PM
oof is money apparently
 
@Optimizer Vim in a browser? o.O
 
When you say "most words", is that forward/backward, so out of 18? :D
 
@Calvin'sHobbies I think you owe me 5 oof.
 
@Geobits You can go for that if you want
 
What did I miss?
I see Geobits has a pumpkin downvote
 
8:10 PM
(though I meant most one way common words)
 
That's nice
 
@Calvin'sHobbies I think you need a definition for "common". There seem to be differing opinions ;)
 
@Calvin'sHobbies you have a bunch of gibberish too
 
@Geobits Do you carve pumpkins with your kiddo for Halloween?
 
@AlexA. Yea, we did a charmander last year.
 
8:11 PM
@AlexA. he simply puts one on him
 
@aditsu Togs are clothing thingies. Sots are drunkards
 
@Geobits That's neat. :) I used to love carving pumpkins with my dad. You should make a downvote pumpkin. Let trick-or-treaters know that they'll get a downvote if they want your candy.
 
Yea, that's why I said we need a dictionary.
 
@Geobits time for charmeleon
 
I thought of a new challenge while tinkering with tryapl
I'mma write it up right now
 
8:12 PM
@Geobits I said Scrabble
 
@Calvin'sHobbies I knew the latter from crosswords.
 
@Calvin'sHobbies Then all mine are normal...
 
@quartata Closed as because I can
 
@Geobits Well, the Aditsu-Scrabble dict then
 
>_>
 
8:13 PM
unfortunately it would take me a VERY long time to come up with a complete word list
 
words like "CJam"
 
haha
 
AJam, BJam, DJam, ...
 
SpaceJam
 
Start with the set of all possible letter combinations and remove ones people complain about
 
8:14 PM
I would suggest using the 10000 most common English words, if you can find a clean list
 
I once curated the dictionary for some word games. That was fun.
 
@PeterTaylor That sounds like quite an involved task.
 
@trichoplax Red turtle
 
@aditsu I can only find a dirty list.
 
me too
 
8:15 PM
@Calvin'sHobbies I just inverted it following your suggestion and it seemed perfect...
 
The problem with an abridged list is that it's going to take so much longer to do. Now instead of just rearranging letters into words I know, I have to check if it's on some dumb list for every swap.
 
I can't tell if muddyfish changed his or not
 
@Calvin'sHobbies He cleaned his fish
 
@Calvin'sHobbies Looks red on black to me
 
I'm starting to suspect muddyfish is not even a fish.
 
8:18 PM
jellyfish is not a fish either
 
Woah
 
not just inverted
 
@Calvin'sHobbies chicken of the infinite
 
8:19 PM
Just to make sure I did this right
 
This is regular inverted ^^
 
?6+?6 rolls two d6s and sums them together in Dyalog APL right?
 
No
 
?
 
@AlexA. I like this one better I think.
 
8:20 PM
What did I do wrong?
 
@quartata everything
start fixing it.
I'd say you start with your name. get the rest three quarters of it
quarterta -> fullta
 
@Calvin'sHobbies Oh... my... what is this
 
┻━┻︵ (°□°)/ ︵ ┻━┻
 
0
Q: Generate a hexdump of a file!

SuperJedi224In this task, your goal is to write a program for generating hexdumps of files of arbitrary types. Input The input consists of a (relative or absolute) path to the file to be processed. It may be taken from STDIN, a function argument, or a command line argument. Output The output (which may b...

 
8:22 PM
(Ͼ˳Ͽ)
 
@quartata This seems to work for me at tryapl.org.
 
@Geobits I thought it worked too...
But according to Alex it doesn't...
 
Well, you know what they say about Alex...
 
There's a tag for that...
Hmm. Double ninja'd
 
8:24 PM
Well, it doesn't roll two D6s.
It uses a PRNG.
 
0
A: Generate a hexdump of a file!

quartataBash, 6 bytes xxd $1 Basically.

lol
 
@AlexA. (its @Chris in case it's not obvious)
 
It probably rolls 0-5 also instead of 1-6.
 
Suddenly downvotes
 
@Calvin'sHobbies I could tell.
 
8:25 PM
Whatever. The challenge was a duplicate anyways
 
@Geobits ?6+?6 rolls a D6, then adds 6, then rolls a die with that number of sides.
 
^
 
It does what now? See, this is why I don't use APL.
 
You'd need parens. (?6)+?6
 
I see why, now that I think about it, but eww....
 
8:28 PM
APL reads from right to left. There are no precedence rules, except parentheses: every operator just grabs everything to its right (and one thing to its left, if there is a value) and uses that as input.
 
Yea, I remember that from the painful time I spent cracking an APL cop.
 
See, this is why Zgarb has a PhD in APL studies.
 
:P
 
does +?6?6 work in APL?
 
No
You could do +/?6?6
+/ is reduce by summing, ?6 ?6 is a two element array.
 
8:32 PM
Oh noes StackExchange is down
 
Strange, StackStatus doesn't say anything
 
Everyone panic!
 
As long as chat stays up that shouldn't dent my procrastination
5
 
@quartata Ok
 
おもしろい
 
8:33 PM
@aditsu I guess
 
@trichoplax Well, it's back online, so it's not that it really matters anyway...
 
@Doorknob Wow that was quick
Is there a quick way to search for chat replies that used the message id rather than the username (specifically replies to me)?
 
@AlexA. That won't work. 6?6 gives a random permutation of 1 2 3 4 5, and ? applies to it element-wise.
So you get something like 1 4 1 1 4 2.
 
One of our customers just submitted a bug. Step 4 to reproduce is "Prepare for disaster." I know exactly what that means, but I still think it's hilarious.
 
@Zgarb I forgot the space between ?6 and ?6. Will that fix it?
 
8:39 PM
@AlexA. I don't think so. Spaces between literals give arrays, but otherwise they're no-ops.
 
Our "disaster preparedness procedure" basically amounts to "Take a backup of the database."
 
@Zgarb Right
@Rainbolt No
 
I guess that's what I get for rushing a golf answer
 
But you could do +/?6 6
 
Can someone verify to see if my new thing works:
-3
A: Generate a hexdump of a file!

quartataBash, 35 bytes xxd -p -c16 $1|sed 's/\(..\)/\1 /g' Basically.

 
8:41 PM
@Zgarb orly?
 
I don't have xxd and don't know how to get it
 
@aditsu That's strange. I thought it was a coreutil nowadays
 
@quartata I saw the black and white avatar and the negative answer score and thought you were Beta Decay for a minute.
 
@AlexA. Ya rly. 6 6 is an array and ? is applied element-wise.
 
My new avatar just won't show up. shouldiblamecaching.com
 
8:42 PM
 
@AlexA. That means it's working
 
@quartata oh, it looks like it's part of vim-core (that's why I don't have it)
 
Suitibly halloweenifierd?
 
@aditsu You don't have vim?
 
@Zgarb oic
 
8:43 PM
I don't keep malware :p
 
@muddyfish Seems spoopy
 
@aditsu I have a feel @Doorknob will have a thing or two to say about this.
 
Hey people are un-downvoting it now
 
i might see if i can change it every full moon or something
 
That makes me feel better
@aditsu ಠ______________________________ಠ
 
8:44 PM
yeah, I expect a few dozen bullets coming this way :p
 
@quartata You still have +1/-2 so don't get too excited.
 
@aditsu suspended for a year for offensive content
 
@AlexA. I mean the challenge got marked as a duplicate anyways
 
@quartata Even if you stay at -1 you're guaranteed to be the winner...
 
woo!
 
8:45 PM
@trichoplax Yay!
 
Alright, OEIS sequence has been proposed!
 
Outspoken badge! \o/
2
 
too bad this question doesn't have any correct answer in a language I heard of: codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/11985/…
 
@flawr I dont see a diff anyway?
 
@aditsu Never heard of Perl?
 
8:46 PM
Why of course not.
 
@quartata the perl code is wrong
 
@aditsu oic
 
the C code is wrong too
 
@aditsu The other guy likes to post answers that don't work in obscure languages that nobody can test.
 
Not even google reveals what Ix2web is
@aditsu I don't see a C answer
 
8:47 PM
^
 
Was it deleted?
 
No, it just isn't there
 
@Calvin'sHobbies It should show up quite soon I hope =/
 
OK so aditsu is hallucinating
That's not good
 
8:47 PM
@aditsu All Perl code is inherently wrong.
 
@quartata it's in the question... and I'm actually rechecking if it's correct
 
Next thing we know he'll add a magical unicorn operator to CJam
 
have @AlexA. refresh you
 
@AlexA. ಠ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ಠ
 
0
A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

ugorenDetect Time Travel code-golf This has to get posted tomorrow, so I probably won't get much feedback. I'll try to re-post last week. Computers are everywhere nowadays - in cars, trains, skateboards, even nuclear reactors. The possibility that your software will run in a time travelling device i...

 
8:48 PM
Spoopy avatar, @flawr.
@quartata Deal with it
 
@El'endiaStarman Your numbers are way smaller than mine.
 
One time I thought it was a good idea to use Perl. Then I had to maintain the code so I rewrote it in Python so it was actually usable.
 
oh, the C code might be correct actually... I somehow had a different version
 
@AlexA. 'ಠ'_ri*'ಠ
ಠ_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ಠ
 
@quartata CJam can't save you now.
 
Anonymous
8:50 PM
It's hard to maintain code written in an alien dialect
 
@AlexA. How about Pyth?
Or maybe I'll even write it in Perl
 
it doesn't do the reverse though
 
@PeterTaylor Which ones, specifically? All the square ones except 5x5 have been confirmed by several people. I calculated (5,2) and feersum calculated (5,3), (5,4), and (5,5).
 
Anonymous
The first perl interpreter was discovered in Roswell, New Mexico, with a note in an alien language that translated to "todo: figure out what I've written"
9
 
@Dennis Hey, it's clearly two built-ins. ;)
 
8:51 PM
^^ XD
 
@flawr It's showing up for me now - nice work :)
 
LOL I've fully used my vote allowence for the day! I didn't know there was a vote allowance for stars ಠ_ಠ
 
What about your downvote allowance?
 
@AlexA. print"ಠ".("_"x$_)."ಠ"
(run with -n)
 
Anonymous
He used them all on Dennis
 
8:53 PM
@El'endiaStarman Ah, my bad, I was forgetting that you have rectangular ones in there too.
 
Today I found shwifty-three dollars.
 
I confirm 51840
 
I kinda wish that I could refer to this chat room as the source of these numbers... :P
 
@El'endiaStarman Just the square ones might make a nice sequence too. Or the 376 3x3 block sums.
 
207̃012
 
8:54 PM
@quartata I get ERROR: Nope.
 
@El'endiaStarman Why don't you? A link wouldn't hurt.
 
@trichoplax I don't typically downvote, why?
 
> Why don
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ You also don't use the reply button.
 
@Calvin'sHobbies Speaking of 3x3 block sums, how many of each were there?
But besides, that's a short and not really that interesting sequence.
 
8:56 PM
@AlexA. sigh I've been meaning to add a script that allows me to use my keyboard to reply to a certain message. It's too tedious to go and click on the reply button :P
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Doorknob has such a script available on GitHub.
 
@AlexA. I might try it out, but I want to do it as an exercise first ^_^
 
@AlexA. Rly
 
You can type in :2054356 to reply
 
I don't believe you
 
8:58 PM
:2054356 orly
 
12 16 = 4*4
13 40 = 4*10
14 40 = 4*10
15 64 = 4*16
16 56 = 4*14
17 64 = 4*16
18 40 = 4*10
19 40 = 4*10
20 16 = 4*4
 
@El'endiaStarman reply no wrk like this
@MartinBüttner FYI, I added the reference to the meta post to my comment
 
kk, deleted mine
 
@MartinBüttner I should have included it to begin with.
 

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