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10:18 AM
kinda annoying that the grid rotates back after each puzzle
 
@MartinBüttner Are you playing Regex Crossword? If so, what's your ID?
 
just (re)started
23018
 
Mine's 22925, and I finally moved off! Finished Ghost!
 
oh, so I'm one ahead of you ;) (the last one seemed to have a mistake though)
 
@MartinBüttner I fully finished the Beginner stage!
I finally compiled it.
Full list of Regex Crossword players in this room:
1. Martin Büttner [#23018] 11456
2. zyabin101      [#22925] 11851
3. Cyoce          [#22904] 15834
I'm second here.
@MartinBüttner can you help design a puzzle for Regex Crossword?
 
10:33 AM
I don't know?
 
@MartinBüttner If you're registered, you can make your own Regex Crossword puzzles.
 
ah okay
4th level of Experienced now... this is getting tricky...
that's the one I think has a mistake
 
That is a real cool game=)
 
@flawr What, are you registered? If so, what's your ID?
 
sometimes it's a bit too easy to guess what the resulting word/sentence/pattern is going to be
 
10:41 AM
How can i find my id?
 
login (top right) then click on profile
 
@flawr Open Regex Crossword, click on the toolbar the button next to the sign out button and find your ID there.
@MartinBüttner Ninja'd me!
 
Hm, I clicked login->github then a small window opens and immediately closes again.
 
@flawr You logged in. Congrats, you can now find out your ID!
 
@flawr well that window should ask you for your permission to access the github account
 
10:43 AM
There are still the different login options, but no "profile"?
 
do you have a pop up blocker or something?
that window shouldn't close immediately
 
I just deleted the account via github and reregistered
now it works
Thank you for the help=)
 
I finally finished Intermediate!
 
23028
 
@flawr Okay, so I can include your ID in my list! What's your--- ah, he already answered.
 
10:49 AM
Where can you do taht?
 
in his notepad I think
 
Oh=)
 
@MartinBüttner Yes, I prepare the list in the Windows Notepad. =)
 
hm, the Palindromeda set was a bit lame... Double Cross looks interesting though
 
10:52 AM
Full list of Regex Crossword players in this room:
1. Martin Büttner [#23018]  6400
2. zyabin101      [#22925]  9719
3. Cyoce          [#22904] 15836
4. flawr          [#23028] 19988
 
@flawr it matches AA
 
OOh, it must mucht the whole column!
TIL
=)
I thought it must match every cell independently.
Thank you!
 
Hmm I don't think I ever made an account for regex crossword, just picked random ones to do
 
flawr, you started fourth. Can I get one of your--- ah, it's a trophy.
I'm also the only known player in this room that solved a custom puzzle. It is Basic Intro. Who solved it, too?
 
23032, gonna speed run restart now :)
 
10:58 AM
@Sp3000 Recompiling the list when I'm into playing Experienced.
 
@Sp3000 I think I need to take a break soon, so you should be able to beat me ;)
 
I am already stuck =/
Oh, solved it.
This is a really cool game for learning regex!
Are the solutions always unique?
 
I think so
is anyone earning those achievements?
 
@MartinBüttner Yes.
 
odd. I'm not.
 
11:10 AM
I still need this sometimes=)
 
Experienced is too hard for me... and... I hesitate to say it... I gave up!
Recompiling the list now.
Full list of Regex Crossword players in this room:
 1. Martin Büttner [#23018]  4324
 2. zyabin101      [#22925]  9720
 3. Sp3000         [#23032] 11058
 4. flawr          [#23028] 12448
 5. Cyoce          [#22904] 15841
 
I have the solution ATO;WEL
 
@flawr Press Validate to get congratulations.
 
But how is L matched by [BORF].
 
@flawr . matches one character, any character. So, L fulfills the dot greatly: [BORF]L.
 
11:18 AM
Oh right, I confused . with *, thanks
 
While you play regex puzzles, I have a general puzzle for you.
 
I'm oddly good at regex crossword, considering that I hardly ever use regex.
 
Rotate each tile to reassemble the network.
 
11:35 AM
Boo yah.
 
@FlagAsSpam Correct, but don't give the solution to others.
 
I thought they were random.
 
@FlagAsSpam I made you a permalink. Simon Tatham's puzzle collection allows you to keep random seeds and descriptive game IDs for the games you play.
 
Oh, damn.
Okay.
 
Also, I compiled an index of those who will solve my periodic puzzles.
Index of Puzzle Lovers:
1. FlagAsSpam             1

Puzzle Maker: zyabin101
Yes, you're the only one who made it.
 
11:57 AM
@flawr oh wow, I didn't see that . ... I thought that was grit on my monitor or something
 
@MartinBüttner I should clean my monitor too...
:D
 
12:12 PM
regexcrossword would make an interesting codegolf challenge
 
"interesting" as in "ridiculously tough"? :P
 
Well bruteforcing would probably the most popular way
perhaps rather algorithm/code-challenge
 
12:16 PM
@MartinBüttner Did you see the hexagonal challenges? regexcrossword.com/challenges/hexagonal/puzzles/1
 
hah, not yet
 
@flawr I've seen hexagonal custom challenges!
 
the Volapük stage is nice... now that the results no longer make sense you actually need to solve the puzzle
 
grc
12:34 PM
@MartinBüttner is there a mistake with double cross 2?
I can't see why mine isn't validating
 
is yours AAT and EAM? I made that mistake
(the puzzle is valid, afaict... a bit cheeky though ^^)
 
grc
maybe :P
-.-
 
I finally did it. Solved the first Experienced puzzle.
 
oh sweet, the Hamlet set has nice background images :)
hm, but the solutions are words again...
 
12:50 PM
Solved Experienced puzzle 2!
 
grc
@MartinBüttner yeah, that kinda ruins it
you could get through half of them w/o regex if you know your cities and have read the hitchhiker trilogy
and hamlet I guess
 
Solved Experienced puzzle 3!
 
also in Palindromeda you only have to solve half of them
 
0
Q: Distance between two points in n-dimensional space

DenkerAffeHere is another simple one: The Challenge Given two points in a n-dimensional space, output the distance between them. The coordinates will be rational numbers, only limits are the restrictions of your language. Lowest dimension is 1, highest is whatever your language can handle You may assum...

 
grc
12:57 PM
this one is still my favourite
 
@grc from where is it?
 
@grc wtf
 
grc
from MIT I think
iirc it takes sudoku-like logic
 
@grc This puzzle is on Regex Crossword!
 
grc
oh lol
 
1:03 PM
Solved Experienced puzzle 4!
I have a problem on Experienced puzzle 5.
I finally solved the Experienced level!
 
@grc I've gotta say, the Hamlet set is quite tough even when you can guess some words
 
1:19 PM
5
Q: What would two people reading each other's mind think?

A. JiménezImagine that two people who have the ability to read anyone's mind confront each other. Each one of them knows that the other is able to read minds and so they try to read each other's mind. Let's call the two subjects Subject A and Subject B: Subject A starts reading Subject B's mind, but si...

...mind recursion?
 
grc
good to hear - I'm up to Hamlet now
they look a bit bigger
 
1:35 PM
@Sp3000 how's that speedrun going?
 
Took a break and watched a show, but up to Volapuk
So... slow run :P
 
that't not bad :)
 
Picking up the speed run now :P
 
I'm on 5/6 for Hamlet, but that one's taking a while
(the entire set, I mean)
 
grc
first time having studied Hamlet at school has ever proved useful :D
 
1:43 PM
haha
I know enough about Hamlet for the quotes to seem familiar but not enough to complete all of them when I recognise some part of it
(also I don't recall ever having read Hamlet, except for Ryan North's choose-your-own-adventure rendition)
 
grc, what's your ID?
 
grc
23050
 
Full list of Regex Crossword players in this room:
 1. Martin Büttner [#23018]  1822
 2. grc            [#23050]  1824
 3. Sp3000         [#23032]  2938
 4. zyabin101      [#22925]  7205
 5. flawr          [#23028] 10531
 6. Cyoce          [#22904] 15870
 
Starting Hamlet - are they just extracts from the play?
 
@grc Damn, I need to hurry up :D
@Sp3000 yes
 
1:50 PM
Woo backsolving time
 
Because Martin Buttner wins grc with a very small difference, I'm going to replace this type of scoring by rank after the next list is released.
Solved the first Palindromeda puzzle!
 
done with Hamlet
why can't the hexagonal ones use a text direction such that all hints are upside up... (as opposed to such that no matter how you rotate it, some will be upside down)
 
hi @MartinBüttner
and all :)
 
:) I like the question mark
I am still wondering about a polynomial multiplication challenge. Multiply two polynomials of degree 1000 with coefficients of 1000 bits each
 
2:04 PM
@MartinBüttner There is feedback on the right.
 
@MartinBüttner Is that going to be trivial in mathematica?
 
@Lembik yes
 
@MartinBüttner Then disallow builtins that make it trivial.
 
@MartinBüttner :( Would that be using schoolbook multiplication?
or DFT?
 
@Lembik it would be writing a * between the polynomials.
(and maybe calling Simplify on it)
or Expand or something
 
2:05 PM
@MartinBüttner ok do you know if mathematica does multiplication naively?
 
no clue
 
I could make it fastest-code is the point
 
seems unlikely though
 
it's not trivial to deal with the large coefficients you see if you want to do it quickly
I know, I know.. sandbox it :)
 
2:14 PM
done with Palindromeda
 
0
A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

LembikPolynomial multiplication with large coefficients You are given two polynomials P and Q of degree 1000. The coefficients each have at most 300 digits and are all non-negative. The task is simply to output P*Q as quickly as possible. Input The input will be given on standard input with 1000 num...

 
damn, the hexagons are tough
5
 
grc
^
 
I am not actually sure there exists a fast library for my challenge
 
grc
my neck's sore from trying to read the clues
 
2:16 PM
at least I haven't seen one..unless mathematica does something clever
 
@grc yeah that's really annoying
wooo, 3-digit rank
@grc how many of the hexagons have you done?
 
grc
2
 
@MartinBüttner 0
 
@grc same :)
 
grc
I'm trying to fix up the clues in the css
 
2:19 PM
:/ these preceding dots are hard to see
Screen has too much dust
 
@grc I think the clues aren't sufficient for this one :/
 
0
A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

LembikPolynomial multiplication with large coefficients You are given two polynomials P and Q of degree 1000. The coefficients each have at most 300 digits and are all non-negative. The task is simply to output P*Q as quickly as possible. Input The input will be given on standard input with 1000 num...

0
A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

FatalizeHypercubes elements Write a function or program that outputs the number of each type of element (vertex, edge, face, etc.) of an N-dimensional hypercube. As an example, the 3 dimensional cube has 1 cell (i.e. 1 3-dimensional cube), 6 faces (i.e. 6 2-dimensional cubes), 12 edges (i.e. 12 2-dimen...

 
grc
I think I'm getting somewhere
 
Two at once? :o
 
@FlagAsSpam No. Rare line.
 
2:29 PM
...
 
@zyabin101 Wat.
 
@grc I think the on below the right-most corner isn't uniquely determined
 
I need help making the following regex crossword puzzle.
                ___
               /   ___
              /   /
       PP|CG [ ] [ ]
[CODE][GOLF] [ ] [ ]
 
grc
@MartinBüttner oh, I'm not even up to there
keep making mistakes
 
When you finish an implementation and you realize it has a runtime of O(fuck!)
 
2:33 PM
@mınxomaτ You say Oh, fuck!
 
grc
@MartinBüttner got it - it seems unique to me
 
huh
then maybe I've made a mistake elsewhere
 
one time I posted on reddit about a tis-100 solution I made and I said it ran in O(my god) time
 
@undergroundmonorail You say Oh, my god!
 
grc
2:38 PM
@MartinBüttner the {4} made it unique for me
 
@grc ah yeah, literally just spotted that
 
grc
next one seems easier
 
One time I was playing tis-100 in math class to kill time and when mp teacher caught me I successfully convinced her I was doing computer science homework
*my teacher
 
@grc done as well
@grc did you manage to fix up the CSS?
 
grc
nah it was too much effort
because they overlap if you make them horizontal
 
2:43 PM
Finished Double Cross puzzle 1!
@undergroundmonorail You should learn how to edit messages.
Also, you should play Regex Crossword. What's your ID there?
 
I know how to edit messages but I'm on mobile
 
@undergroundmonorail Then you should try the new mobile chat.
 
Maybe one day I'll play regex crossword, is regex ever stops being soulcrushing
2
Is there new mobile chat? :o
I'm just using the browser inside the stack exchange app
 
there's ChatSEy for android at least
 
G'morning!
 
2:46 PM
69
Q: Test the new mobile chat!

balphaRemember 2010, when smartphones looked like this?             Back then, we created a mobile version of chat, so that people could use the bare minimum of features on those and similar phones. Well waddayaknow, suddenly it's 2016, smartphones for some reason now look like this:             –...

 
whoa, what
 
> Remember 2010, when smartphones looked like this? i.stack.imgur.com/RxakX.jpg
 
Apparently chatsey doesn't exist any more now that there's good mobile chat, but I can't enable good mobile chat from mobile lmao
 
> Back then, we created a mobile version of chat, so that people could use the bare minimum of features on those and similar phones.
 
I can't wait for the whole post to be quoted in chat
 
2:48 PM
> Well waddayaknow, suddenly it's 2016, smartphones for some reason now look like this: i.stack.imgur.com/HyrVH.jpg
 
It's 2016. Where's my ______?
 
Your underscore?
 
Fill in the blank
 
It's 2016, where's my new panic! album
 
@ETHproductions Syntax error.
 
2:50 PM
Oh it came out
Nice
It's 2016, where's my newfound skill in hearthstone? Oh sweet it's right here
2016 is pretty sick
 
in Beep Boop Maggot, Dec 13 '15 at 21:39, by ETHproductions
<ETHbot> The answer to the ultimate question about life, the universe, and everything is 'SyntaxError: missing ; before statement'.
 
@ETHproductions When learning my second programming language (PHP) this was the first node in my flowchart of what to do when encountering an error.
 
@ETHproductions Also: [bots] [goats] [idiots]. Is Leftgoat okay?
 
grc
what happens to the \ in ['\2BINGE']?
 
Is there anything like a regex reverser, that produces an example that is matched by a regex?
 
2:54 PM
So you're cheating at regex crossword
 
When thinking about that I suspect we already had a challenge involving this.
 
@flawr Well, regex101 provides an explanation. Don't know if this is sufficient.
 
@flawr I think we do have challenges like that
 
12
Q: Regex in reverse - decompose regular expressions

DoorknobThe Problem I have a bunch of regular expressions that I need to use in some code, but I'm using a programming language that doesn't support regex! Luckily, I know that the test string will have a maximum length and will be composed of printable ASCII only. The Challenge You must input a regex...

26
Q: Reverse a regex

TNDThe Challenge Given a valid regex, output a regex that that matches the same set of strings, but reversed. The Task This challenge uses the most basic regex operations: ^, $, ?, +, *, [], {}, |. There's no such thing as capture groups or any of that complicated stuff. Special characters can ...

 
Suddenly regex crosswords seem really easy
 
2:56 PM
@undergroundmonorail So you're playing! What's your ID?
 
I think that was a joke about using reversers to cheat
 
Nah I'm still on mobile I'm just making a joke
^^
 
@undergroundmonorail You can play Regex Crossword on mobile!
 
I would not could not on a train, I would not could not on a plane
I do not like these regex games, using this rhyme scheme is a pain
(I might give it a shot later)
 
This puzzle is such a time drain, and hexagons just hurt my brain
 
3:01 PM
Danke schon, na, na; Danke schon, na, na;
I broke the sequence!
 
"thanks already"? ;)
 
fml
 
@FlagAsSpam Forge ModLoader?
 
3:02 PM
that's just insane.
 
grc
at least it doesn't have unicode as well
 
Ah, the beginner puzzles are pretty easy :)
 
I wonder how many energy drinks I can put inside my body without them making me die
 
3:06 PM
@undergroundmonorail 3
 
Nice I only had one today
I can have two more
^ check out my Good Math Skill
That's subtraction, yo
 
grc
or 4294967298 more?
 
time for hearthstone
i keep almost hitting rank 9 and then getting my ass kicked back down to the low 10s
i don't even particularly care about my hearthstone rank i just hate being teased like this
 
Done with Intermediate... now to do something useful
 
3:12 PM
can you look me in the eye and tell me you're about to do something useful
 
No, because your eye is too far away from mine
 
come to guelph
 
Sorry, too busy doing something useful
 
Useful is subjective.
VoteToClose.
 
3:14 PM
OH hang on i played regex crossword before
 
finally done with hexagon 4... one left
 
@FlagAsSpam The thing I got on the computer to do in the first place
 
it was a long time ago and i didn't make a user id
 
@ETHproductions What is your ID?
 
Don't have one, playing as guest
 
3:15 PM
@ETHproductions Too bad. You should register.
 
@zyabin101 think I might later
 
I like this hint:
['2B']?(O|R)?['\2BINGE']+
 
2B | ~2B == FF // checkmate shakespeare
 
Slowly catching up to Martin (hopefully :P)
 
@undergroundmonorail What's your ID?
 
3:29 PM
> it was a long time ago and i didn't make a user id
 
lol
 
i did the tutorial
oh apparently i did make an id back in the day regexcrossword.com/profile/11770
 
I have no clue why I'm not getting the achievements
 
It would be seriously cool if someone made a thing for this.
2
 
i come up with my most creative insults when i'm a) tired b) waiting for my hearthstone opponent (who is clearly going to beat me) to take their turn
like i know i'm going to die i just want them to hurry up
so as they're planning their turn i make up insults for them
for example: "YEAH DO IT YOU SHIT HOUSE"
i don't know what a shit house is
i thought i was creative but after some introspection and soul searching i've realized that they're all "[swear] [noun]"
 
3:44 PM
0
A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

J AtkinStop motion rain unknown* An interesting, though not commonly used feature of consoles is that you can push all the text off the screen, allowing you to start with a clean slate. If you do this fast enough you can make some animation. Task Write a animation script that draws falling rain. Ra...

 
@MartinBüttner Hmm yeah I've only gotten one achievement so far :/
Oh, if I go back and hit validate again it's giving me the achievement
 
might click through them once more once I'm done
8 cells left (plus errors maybe)
 
:D
 
hm yeah, errors...
1 error, fixed :)
I think I can move on with my life now...
 
4:15 PM
That moment where you finish a game, and then you're sad. :c
 
@FlagAsSpam You say CUSTOM CONTENT!
 
@FlagAsSpam i cried at undertale
 
@zyabin101 I can't get the dlc to load. D:
 

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