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Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
12:00 AM
@phase Yes that's ready. The vote count really doesn't matter as long as the challenge is clearly stated. Maybe just specify if both programs and functions are allowed.
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@Calvin'sHobbies Oh, that's definitely what happened. :P
 
grovesNL
grovesNL
Is there a standard programming language benchmark that aims to calculate a single/double number as the output?
 
phase
phase
Are question drafts on a per-IP basis?
 
grovesNL
grovesNL
(i.e. calculating hundreds of digits of pi is invalid because of the single/double number restriction)
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
@grovesNL What output? As the score?
Can you elaborate a bit?
 
grovesNL
grovesNL
12:06 AM
@mınxomaτ: Basically like the benchmarks in benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org but the benchmark's goal is to calculate a single value (not an array of numbers)
Like.. calculating the determinant of a very large matrix
 
SuperJedi224
SuperJedi224
Okay, I'm back
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
Yeah, but what about the implementation? On what width should it operate? Single? Double? Extended? Or arbitrary precision? (I.e. native code, managed or interpreted?).
The real question is what you're trying to benchmark. The CPU? The language? ...
 
grovesNL
grovesNL
I'm looking to benchmark the language
I'm not too concerned about the width, but I'm looking to benchmark JavaScript implementations in particular, so double precision
 
Sp3000
Sp3000
@Mego Dunno if you've resolved this by now, but print ord(u"Σ")
 
phase
phase
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Q: Trump needs your help to stop the Starman!

phaseTrump needs your help to stop the Starman! A man from the stars has come to Earth! Luckily the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has an infinity-sided die. Using this die, he can conjure up a number which you, the mayor of Podunk, must use to determine who should be sent to stop the ...

code-golf fibonacci
 
flawr
flawr
12:12 AM
Have we already seen this here?
Only funny if you do not understand german.
 
New Main Posts
New Main Posts
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Q: Trump needs your help to stop the Starman!

phaseTrump needs your help to stop the Starman! A man from the stars has come to Earth! Luckily the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has an infinity-sided die. Using this die, he can conjure up a number which you, the mayor of Podunk, must use to determine who should be sent to stop the ...

code-golf fibonacci
 
VoteToClose
VoteToClose
^ This? Is beautiful.
 
phase
phase
@VoteToClose wat
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
@VoteToClose this?
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
Or this?
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
12:18 AM
@grovesNL I did a paper on a pretty secure Hash algorithm designed on top of a strictly floating point PRNG. The PRNG algorithm would probably be a pretty good bench when you initialize it with a large number of rounds since it performs FPU calcs exclusively. You'd have to port the code over to JS though.
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@flawr That was hilarious. Probably my favorite spoof of that scene.
 
TanMath
TanMath
@phase i thought you were going to wait!
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
@grovesNL The problem with JS is that it matters hugely if you restrict the source to asm.js (which is immensely faster). Here's a popular asm.js benchmark: kripken.github.io/Massive . And here's a more general FPU bench that can be run in JS: fourmilab.ch/fbench/fbench.html
 
grovesNL
grovesNL
@mınxomaτ: Sounds cool. I'm mostly looking for an implementation of a benchmark in JavaScript so I can try to beat it. I want to try pushing the calculations to the GPU using WebGL but I have no idea if it's even feasible (it would add quite a lot of overhead). That's why I'm looking for long-running calculations
Yeah I am familiar with asm.js
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@NewMainPosts Y'know, come to think of it, since Trump has an infinity-sided die, the chance that Pippi will be sent is almost exactly 100%... :P (Assuming a uniform distribution.)
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
12:22 AM
TIL there's a Julia function called issticky
 
TanMath
TanMath
is Mego here?
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@TanMath Hasn't been for a little while. He'll be around within the next few hours, I'm sure.
 
flawr
flawr
@AlexA. What is long brown and sticky?
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
@grovesNL Well GPGPU doesn't make it magically faster. If the algorithm is deterministic, it brings no speed improvement at all. GPGPU (just like Inline Assembly) should only be used very rarely and when it is absolutely needed.
 
TanMath
TanMath
@El'endiaStarman ok...
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
12:24 AM
@flawr Uhhhh do I want to know the answer to this? :P
 
VoteToClose
VoteToClose
@flawr A stick. Duh.
 
Alien G
Alien G
@flawr Large chocolate bar.
Damn, so close.
 
flawr
flawr
@AlexA. A STICK!
 
aditsu
aditsu
@AlexA. but does it have ismoist?
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
Haaaaaaahaaaaaah.
 
VoteToClose
VoteToClose
12:26 AM
@VoteToClose Hahaha! You're too funny, you.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@aditsu Dear god I hope not
 
VoteToClose
VoteToClose
I hate my life. XD
 
flawr
flawr
issticky(stick)?
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
@TanMath What do the ellipses mean there? :s
 
TanMath
TanMath
@Calvin'sHobbies nothing...
why>
 
grovesNL
grovesNL
12:27 AM
@mınxomaτ: My thought is that I would expect some deterministic algorithms written in GLSL (pushed to the GPU) to act faster than JavaScript in the CPU
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
@TanMath You use them in weird places
 
flawr
flawr
It is fun how this ... sounds like this 0 in english.
 
quartata
quartata
@NewMainPosts Relevant:
 
SuperJedi224
SuperJedi224
Experiment still in progress
 
quartata
quartata
President CEO of the United States, Donald Trump, has an infinity-sided die.
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@SuperJedi224 ooh wus dis
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
12:28 AM
@grovesNL You can't run deterministic algos on GPUs, because they rely on previous results (hence deterministic). You would only utilize one GPU shader core :)
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
@SuperJedi224 Actually I think the exact numbers are documented somewhere.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
Holy crap, @mınxomaτ just used the reply button!
Surely this signifies the end of days
 
SuperJedi224
SuperJedi224
@Doorknob They have frequency tables for some individual categories on the wiki, but they don't seem to have an overall table
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
@AlexA. ikr
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
:P
 
grovesNL
grovesNL
12:30 AM
@mınxomaτ: I'm new to graphics programming but I thought modern cards supported loops and dynamic branching?
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
@SuperJedi224 Oh, okay.
Is this for a PPCG challenge? :P
(if not, it could be an interesting one)
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
@grovesNL So? You still can't pull results from other running cores, because they're all running at the same time. This is an algorithm design problem, not an implementation one.
 
SuperJedi224
SuperJedi224
@Doorknob No, not really
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
@AlexA. P:
 
SuperJedi224
SuperJedi224
By the way, has anyone written a Golly plugin to do the pattern counting automatically? Because counting them manually is a bit tedious.
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
12:32 AM
Not me.
 
grovesNL
grovesNL
@mınxomaτ: Ah okay I understand what you mean now. Thanks
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
@grovesNL By the way, an easy way to play with GPGPU (shameless plug) is my library MiniCL. (New version comes out in a few hours, I'd suggest to wait ;-) )
 
grovesNL
grovesNL
Nice!
@mınxomaτ: So to clarify, a Monte Carlo/genetic evolution/artificial neural network could theoretically perform much better than native JavaScript, right?
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
I thought just about anything ran faster than native JavaScript.
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
@grovesNL Err can you rephrase that?
@AlexA. Well, technically JScript is native JS and it is plenty fast. :P
 
quartata
quartata
12:37 AM
@AlexA. V8
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
? You made a political post
 
quartata
quartata
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ me no understand
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
...
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I'm very tempted to nuke all the comments there because they're completely off-topic.
 
grovesNL
grovesNL
12:38 AM
@mınxomaτ: I mean if we were running a simulator in JavaScript that was non-deterministic, we could potentially benefit from pushing the calculations to WebGL. So for evolution, each species could evolve in separate threads
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
(Except @El'endiaStarman's of course, because it's obligatory)
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
How do I view previous revisions?
 
aditsu
aditsu
@El'endiaStarman I think the git one is better :)
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@Doorknob ^_^
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@Doorknob That might not be a bad idea, at that.
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
12:39 AM
@grovesNL Yes. Everything that is faser with CPU SIMD or general threading benefits from GPGPU.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Click where it says "Edited X hours ago"
 
quartata
quartata
Most of them are about Earthbound, I don't see what's wrong with that
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@AlexA. Danke :)
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@aditsu A few seconds in and...wow! 97 branches?!?
 
grovesNL
grovesNL
@mınxomaτ: Ok great. I wonder if anyone has tried this already...
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
12:40 AM
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
@grovesNL Probably Unity4Web which is based on asm.js+WebGL has some optimizations for this.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I don't see your point
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@AlexA. I didn't have a point...?
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
 
grovesNL
grovesNL
@mınxomaτ: Interesting. I also thought of abusing CSS3 3D Transforms if the WebGL method requires too much overhead (currently I believe I would have to pass bitmap data back)
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
12:41 AM
@Calvin'sHobbies @CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ This
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Seems like you wanted to make the point that you were not allowed to make political comments
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@Calvin'sHobbies cc @AlexA. Ohhh right.
 
quartata
quartata
@flawr Clopen sets are best sets
 
SuperJedi224
SuperJedi224
@quartata Half-open on the high end?
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@aditsu Eh, topology one is still my favorite. ^_^
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
12:43 AM
I didn't really have a point, at that.
 
quartata
quartata
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ ?
Yeah, Seadrus put a bounty on it
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ well duh, it has a bounty
ninja'd
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
I know.
 
quartata
quartata
It's for the JS one apparently
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
That's nice of him.
^_^
 
quartata
quartata
12:44 AM
Which is lame since the Perl one is vastly superior
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
No
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@quartata You said that just to get a rise out of Alex, didn't you? :P
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
but but Perl
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
> This bookmarklet is so much fun. I thank you for the endless enjoyment.
 
quartata
quartata
@El'endiaStarman Nope, it's the honest truth.
He hates JS too
So he should like the Perl one better because it is shorter
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
12:45 AM
@Doorknob Perl is bad. It's best if you rip off that bandaid ASAP.
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
It's kinda pointless hating the only language you can use to do something. :P
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
Perl is black magic
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
(I mean, I'm sure you could use other languages, but JS definitely has a monopoly in online interactivity.)
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
Perl is stinky brown magic
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
and I remember why I feel so alone. >_<
it'll be ok, javascript
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
12:47 AM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Hey, I don't mind Javascript...
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
Aug 13 at 4:52, by orlp
@ChrisJester-Young javascript is such a terrible language that I believe we're doing ourselves a massive disservice by building upon it
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@AlexA. Wasn't Flash the only alternative at the time Javascript was being developed?
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
Uh idk
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
Or Shockwave?
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
They're all crap
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
12:49 AM
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
JS, PHP, Java, Visual Basic. :P
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
Skimmed the Wikipedia article and it seems like Javascript had effectively no competitors. It's basically that everyone thought using it was gimmicky and amateurish. It didn't become extremely popular until the advent of AJAX.
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@El'endiaStarman :D
 
SuperJedi224
SuperJedi224
I should have checked visual basic, I don't know why I didn't
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@Doorknob s/Java/Perl/
Not saying Java's good, but it's better than Perl.
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
12:57 AM
Incidentally...
7 hours ago, by Mego
Dim var As Integer(5) means create a 6-element array
Blitz 2D/3D does this too. Which makes sense if you remember the original name was "Blitz Basic".
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
More like Shitz Basic. Heyoooooooo
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
Now, this was weird, but I found a use for it: store the length of the array in index 0. Blitz has no dynamic arrays and no len function, so that's how I got around that problem.
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
BATCH has no arrays. Period.
Just pseudo-arrays
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
> commadns
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Danke
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
1:11 AM
Mini-challenge: Post a picture of the most surreal sea creature.
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
-1 no coding involved
 
grovesNL
grovesNL
><>
5
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
shhh it's underwater
 
Sp3000
Sp3000
Here you go
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
1:16 AM
Gulper eel ^
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
Looks like Julia will help President Trump defeat the Starman.
Also WTF did I walk in on
3
Okay bye
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@AlexA. bye!
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@AlexA. Undercut by Mathematica with a measly 3 bytes!
 
quartata
quartata
2 votes for Perl ಠ_ಠ
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
1:32 AM
Perl or JavaScript?
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
@AlexA. Perl is shorter than Julia thereby objectively proving that Perl is superior :P
Also I got to use % as a variable name so that's nice
 
quartata
quartata
@Doorknob !
I'm so happy you've discovered Perl's true greatness.
Don't ever let anyone named Alex convince you otherwise.
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
:D
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
SH[]T
MY F***ING CODE DELETED ITSELF
 
quartata
quartata
If they're named Larry Wall that's OK though
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
1:34 AM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ what about your regular code?
 
quartata
quartata
There's probably a good reason
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@Doorknob O^O
FUUUUU
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
I do this to people all the time
 
quartata
quartata
Such language.
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@Doorknob Me too, often. Mentally.
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
1:35 AM
sighs
I hate Windows atm
 
quartata
quartata
I still don't understand Alex's hatred of Perl.
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ you should use a sane OS :P
lkjalkjflk
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@Doorknob ಠ_ಠ
 
quartata
quartata
He's never bothered to explain why he hates it which leads me to believe he's just doing it to troll us.
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Why is windows crashing.... ;-;
 
quartata
quartata
1:37 AM
 
SuperJedi224
SuperJedi224
Surely there's a better way to do this
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@SuperJedi224 To push three blocks back and forth? No.
If you want a fun challenge, develop a self-moving block train.
 
SuperJedi224
SuperJedi224
To get all three pistons to fire properly
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
If you want an extra challenge on that, make it go both forwards and backwards. :P
 
Eridan
Eridan
Would someone mind taking a look at the thing I just posted in the Sandbox? I've never posted a c-a-r challenge before, and I'd like to hear what people think.
 
quartata
quartata
1:40 AM
@Eridan Ooh, a CnR
Link?
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@SuperJedi224 Pistons cannot push other, extended pistons, so the only way to extend multiple pistons like that is indeed, in a delayed fashion.
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@quartata xD
Yeah, come to my place itra. We have so many weird technical problems.
 
Eridan
Eridan
@quartata here
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
RIP my code
 
SuperJedi224
SuperJedi224
I'm not sure I want all that redsone lying in the doorway of my mars base though. Oh well.
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
1:43 AM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Y U NO git
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ At least you have a backup on GitHub, right?
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@El'endiaStarman Yeah, thank God for that.
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
@El'endiaStarman ninja'd :P
 
New Sandboxed Posts
New Sandboxed Posts
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

EridanFind the nested source codes A cops and robbers challenge where the cops write between 2 and 8 programs that produce output in the same language and interweave the programs together. WLOG, let's discuss this action being performed on two programs. By interweaving, I mean adding the characters of...

 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@Doorknob Because of the previous two files
:P
 
Eridan
Eridan
1:44 AM
Ooo, is that automatic?
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
Aye!
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
I still have to rewrite ~100 lines of codes though ;-;
 
SuperJedi224
SuperJedi224
Like, 1-6-12-4-8 on the repeater lines
You know what? I'm going with an easier door design
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
2:09 AM
@Eridan Would the following be valid interweaving? 
window[a]="alert";window[a]("Hello, ");
r="a";l="lert";eval(r+l+"(\"World!\")");

=> wri=n"dao"[la=]"=l"earlte"r;te"v;awli(nrd+olw+["a(]\(""WHoerllldo!,\ ""))";);
(Every other character)
 
Eridan
Eridan
Yes it would
Though for the sake of obscurifyability, that is not recommended.
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
So I can choose an arbitrary N characters?
 
Anonymous
@El'endiaStarman Turns out I'm an idiot, your solution was ~3 billion. Off by a power of 10. It'll get there this week.
2
 
Eridan
Eridan
The characters do not have to be interweaved according to any particular pattern, just so long as removing the characters from either program produces the second program.
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@Eridan Oh.
 
Eridan
Eridan
2:12 AM
Technically, window[a]="alert";window[a]("Hello, ");r="a";l="lert";eval(r+l+"(\"World!\")"); is a valid interweaving.
 
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
So... just combining the two-eight programs works?
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@Mego Oh dear...
 
Eridan
Eridan
Yes, but that is also not recommended. The idea is to write it like 1212211211112122222121121121121112121222222111 or some other random-looking arrangement.
 
Anonymous
@El'endiaStarman 500 million now
 
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Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
*combining in an arbitrary way
 
Eridan
Eridan
2:13 AM
Yes
 
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Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Ohhh.
Nice challenge!
 
Anonymous
I chucked the process on its own core and gave it high priority
 
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Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Do they have to be in order?
 
Eridan
Eridan
Yes
Otherwise it's too much like the CnR challenge where the objective was to unscramble source code
 
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Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
So, if I had alert("Hi!!"), )"!!iH"(trela is invalid?
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
2:15 AM
By the way! @Mego, I thought about the problem last night and I realized that you can take the log of each number to turn it into a sum problem. I think that, with further work, you could turn it into the knapsack problem. And/or turn it into a graph problem.
Also, you can fairly easily compute all groupings that share prime factors and then work from there.
(I'm assuming their prime factorizations are already known.)
 
Anonymous
@El'endiaStarman I think it would be easier to reduce it to subset-sum than knapsack
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
Oh, true.
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
test █ • ‴ ƒ … ¯ † ‡ ¢ ¤ £ « © ™ ¬ ® ± § ¶ » ¿ · × ÷ þ Ð ≤ ≥ ≠ √ ∞ ∴ ∵ ∫ ∂ ∇ ∀ ∧ ∨ ∩ ∪ ∟ ⊥ ∥ ≈ ≡ ‰ ½ ¾ ⅓ ⅔ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞ ⅟ ■ □ Γ Δ Θ Λ Ξ Π Σ Φ Ψ Ω α δ ε ζ η θ λ µ ν ξ ρ σ τ φ χ ω ϐ ϑ ᴓ ϕ ø ϖ ϗ ϝ ϟ ← ↑ → ↓ ↔ ↕ ⇒ ○ ● ✓ ʭ ‗ ŋ ß ɤ ※ ‽ ₪ ℓ ᴕ ᴖ ᴗ Þ ► ◄ ▲ ▼ ɷ Ǝ ə € Э Д ɰ Ж ₸ Б ↄ ℮ ☇ ♭ ☈ ☉ ♅ ♆ ♇ ¡ ¦ ◊ ♦ ◎ 〈 〉 ☊ ☋ ¹ ² ³ ⁿ ° ♐ ↨ ➤ ¥ æ Æ
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
No blank boxes!
 
Anonymous
woo
 
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Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
2:23 AM
@El'endiaStarman What blank boxes?
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
good
 
Anonymous
That's probably a Seriously program
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Stuff like □ that shows up when your browser/whatever can't render the character.
 
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Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@El'endiaStarman Oic
Firefox is bae
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
@El'endiaStarman Well, technically, there is a □ in there :P
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
2:26 AM
@mınxomaτ Yeah, I know, but that doesn't count! It's supposed to be there! :P
Also, the true blank boxes do tend to be bigger.
 
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Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
☉_☉
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
> It's supposed to be there! :P
You wouldn't know if it wasn't supposed to be there :D
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Whatever it is you saw, I don't wanna see it.
 
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Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
☉ᴗ☉
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
sun face
 
Eridan
Eridan
2:27 AM
☉\/☉
_____
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
I just wrote a 700 line function with 11 levels of nested comparison operators and two goto's. I feel dirty now.
 
Sparr
Sparr
you should!
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
It works (surprisingly). I wouldn't even know where to start refactoring.
 
Anonymous
@mınxomaτ Start with a flamethrower
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

MegoString Shuffle Given a list of strings, output a single string formed by taking a character from each string at each position, sorting them by ASCII ordinal, and appending them in order to the output string. In other words, for n input strings, the first n characters of the output will be the fi...

 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
2:36 AM
 
Eridan
Eridan
Ethics of a challenge called check_thii2_2hiit_out.~ATH if there is a reason it's called that given? (aka is 2hiit too close to the real thing)
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
x^2 is to squared as x^3 is to cubed as x^1 is to ______?
I mean whats the word for x^1
 
Eridan
Eridan
@Calvin'sHobbies x
Because x^1 is dumb :P
 
Sp3000
Sp3000
Oh right
identitied? :P
 
Sparr
Sparr
measured. aligned. laid out.
lined
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
2:42 AM
@Eridan But say you don't know the variable name. e.g. "Square the variable" -> "Oneth the variable"
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
Unchanged? Unmodified?
 
Eridan
Eridan
"Take the variable"
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
"The first power"?
"The variable itself"?
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
@El'endiaStarman that works
 
Sp3000
Sp3000
I like first power
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
2:45 AM
I actually kinda liked "identitied", but that's kinda awkward and not really that clear to non-mathy people.
 
Anonymous
For anyone planning on writing a language that uses the upper bytes: don't
 
Anonymous
Juggling text encodings is not worth it
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
Haha, why not?
ahh
Seriously?
 
Anonymous
Seriously.
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
;)
 
Anonymous
2:52 AM
I'm considering giving up on text code and just going for hexdumps
 
Anonymous
Raw byte reading instead of trying to juggle text encodings
 
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Q: check_thiis_2hiit_out.~ATH

EridanThe popular webcomic Homestuck makes use of a programming language called ~ATH to destroy universes. While this code golf challenge is not to write a program to annihilate our existence, we will be destroying some more tame (albeit less interesting) entities: variables. ~ATH (pronounced "til dea...

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