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Q: Nightmare Puzzlang translator

BubblerBackground Puzzlang is a derivative of Brainfuck, where the symbol X executes a BF command based on three characters on top of it, and anything else does nothing. The following is the translation table for Puzzlang, where X is the literal X and . stands for anything else: > < + ...

 
 
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2:53 AM
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Q: Build a Board of Napier's Bones

Shieru Asakoto This proposal had few attention for 8 months (though an answer was posted in the sandbox at that time), so I decided to post it anyway. Introduction Napier's bones is a calculation tool, which helps speeding up the calculation of multiplication, division and digit-by-digit square root extra...

 
 
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4:10 AM
@DJMcMayhem can you unfreeze chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/46888/vsl
 
 
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5:29 AM
@Downgoat An hour late, but done
 
 
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6:57 AM
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Q: No trailing but(t)s please!

TitusThis challenge was inspired by Yeah But No But Yeah. maxb´s colleague recently sent him the following piece of JavaScript as a joke: let butScript = (nrOfButs) => { for(var i = 0; i < nrOfButs; i++){ if(i % 3 == 0){ console.log("Yeah") } if(i % 2 == 0){...

 
 
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12:11 PM
@Arnauld I think I've seen you doing things like [...4] to create an array with 4 empty items. Am I right? If so, how do you do it and where? I've been looking for that trick and havent found it
 
12:25 PM
Array(4) creates an array with 4 empty items. But, they're so empty, you can't even map over them. Now, you could .fill `` them, but slightly golfier, you can spread over them: [...Array(4)].
 
@Neil Yes, that's what I do but I think I've seen something like ...4 somewhere
 
@LuisfelipeDejesusMunoz I've written a compilation of tricks for small constant ranges. But this is always either [...some_string] or [...Array(some_int))] (as noticed by Neil).
 
12:53 PM
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Q: Do we have Programming Puzzles where the CodeGolf'ing is not the criteria and actually disallowed?

JS GuyWhen I searched with -[code-golf] i did not get interesting results. I am looking for the questions (and as popular as CodeGolf questions) that disallow or not require the Code to be golfed to Bytes. Just some programming puzzles offering fun/interesting challenges and solutions in various langua...

 
1:35 PM
why did shog retweet me
now that he knows of the existence of the feed there is absolutely 0 chance i will ever be allowed within 100 yards of an SE office so this is bittersweet
 
^ ???
 
Is Sir Michael Atiyah giving lecture on Monday Sept. 25 @ #HLF18? Yes. Will he presenenting a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis? Yes, that is what his abstract says.
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uhhhhh
 
@Quasilocal I predict it's not going to hold up. Atiyah's recent big claims, like his supposed proof that the 6-sphere admits no complex structures, have not been holding up. Everyone who knows him well has been too embarrassed to publicly discuss the reasons.
 
1:51 PM
Well, we'll know on Monday.
 
Could take much longer than that to find a problem in a full proof
 
Or on September 25.
 
ngn
@Dennis wtf... if this is true, it's big news
 
It's Monday. The tweet got the date wrong.
 
@Dennis oh that kinda threw me off
 
1:57 PM
Next Monday, 9:45 - 10:30, presumably German summer time (UTC + 2). Apparently, there will be a live stream on heidelberg-laureate-forum.org and their YouTube channel.
 
2:25 PM
@Dennis outside of allowing a lot of other proofs to be proven, what does this actually give us?
like, I feel like we have so many proofs that simply assume that the Riemann Hypothesis is true, and we go along with it
 
People expect that a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis would give a lot of insight/new tools to tackle other problems
 
@NathanMerrill Doesn't give us, but would give him a cool $1m
 
Knowing that Riemann Hypothesis is true in and of itself is not very valuable now
but the tools used and developed to prove it would be
 
@Fatalize that's true. Unique proofs are always a good thing
 
ngn
the same guy claims he found a formula for one of physics's dimensionless constants
 
 
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3:40 PM
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Q: Quadratic residues are so much fun!

ArnauldDefinitions Quadratic residues An integer \$r\$ is called a quadratic residue modulo \$n\$ if there exists an integer \$x\$ such that: $$x^2\equiv r \pmod n$$ The set of quadratic residues modulo \$n\$ can be simply computed by looking at the results of \$x^2 \bmod n\$ for \$0 < x \le \lfloor...

 
@NewMainPosts Predictions: Jelly, 9 bytes; Mathematica, 1-2 builtins. :P
 
4:03 PM
@DLosc 1 built-in in Mathematica is already like 10 bytes though
 
4:36 PM
@NathanMerrill Well, all those proofs would be worthless if the RH turned out to be false...
 
@Dennis Wait, so Atiyah didn't say which direction he's proving it in?
 
No, it's a positive proof. My point is that, without a positive proof, relying on RH is dangerous.
 
Ah, OK
I'm very interested, but very skeptical.
 
4:56 PM
I'm skeptical too, but it's hard not to get excited.
 
If it does turn out to be a real proof, I wonder if he'd accept the million or turn it down like Perelman
 
Most people wouldn't turn down a million dollars. Perelman is an exception to a lot of things.
 
Fair, lol. He does seem pretty eccentric.
 
5:12 PM
Is there an article already published? If not, how many pages would you expect from a proof as significant as this one?
 
It's supposed to be simple enough for a 45 minute conference.
 
5:40 PM
@Dennis I agree. A conference proving that RH is false is way more interesting to me
Watch this tower of dominoes come tumbling down
 
@NathanMerrill I think a lot of mathematicians would be very upset about that.
 
that's why it'd be interesting
 
I imagine people would be trying to disprove (is this even a word?) that proof for a long time.
 
@J.Sallé Disdisprove :P
 
@DJMcMayhem disunmisredisprove
 
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DJMcMayhem has unfrozen this room.
 
Thanks!
 
Michael Atiyah claims a proof of Riemann Hypothesis...
I hope he is right
I guess we'll know in a few days
oh Dennis already told you guys 4 hours ago
 
lol
 
6:18 PM
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic. It should be clear to everyone that Atiyah does not actually have a proof of RH. — Dan Petersen 11 hours ago
hmm...
 
7:11 PM
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Q: Generic evolutionary AI with fewest characters

liljoshuI wrote an open source generic evolutionary AI awhile go on a whim ( myLittleAI ) for PHP that pulled in at only about ~500 lines, just playing around with AI concepts. I wasn't aiming for small as possible, just a generally small one as I experimented. But it raises the obvious question... H...

 
7:27 PM
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Q: I won't not use no double negatives

DenDenDoThe goal is to simplify sentences containing multiple negatives. Like with multiplying negative numbers, two negative words annihilate each other until at most one is left (doesn't matter which one). While some words disappear without a trace, other leave behind a positive part The affected word...

 
7:42 PM
is it my poor searching skills or is there not actually an open simple "rotate a 2D array/ascii-art" challenge?
 
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Q: Russian BS - Submissions accepted until October 13th

Rushabh MehtaThe ChatRoom is here I love playing the card game BS, but sometimes, it just doesn't have enough oomph for my short attention span. Instead, let's play some Russian BS. Rules Here is a quick guide to the rules. The game begins with a random player declaring the card type of the round (out of...

 
@dzaima Are you looking for something like this?
 
@AdmBorkBork I meant straight 90° turns, not incremental ones as that
 
Ah. Hmm. I can't recall one off the top of my head, but that doesn't mean there isn't one.
 
7:59 PM
Made some changes and added another example to my sandboxed challenge, any comments? I'd like to post that some time later today or tomorrow
 
@J.Sallé Hey, at least it's not as bad as P v. NP proof.
 
@Zacharý I'm not sure, but I think just the sheer amount of scientific work done assuming the RH to be true that would be proven false would affect more areas of research.
 
I mean: it wouldn't cause cryptography to go in a frenzy.
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

liljoshuThe Tiniest Generic Evolutionary AI code-golf ai Introduction Creating a tiny AI that parses unknown text string A into unknown text string B. All languages are options. Internet connectivity is an option. Answer must evolve using options that are or are inspired by a Turing complete i...

 
8:15 PM
@Zacharý that's true, yeah
 
frenzy might even be an understatement
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

not not totallyhumanKnight's tour code-golf chess A knight's tour is a sequence of moves of a knight on a chessboard such that the knight visits every square only once. For those who are not aware of how knights in chess work, knights are capable of moving in an L shape: Tours generally applies to a regular c...

 
@J.Sallé you probably should comment more on what valid borders are, because by the current rules, an all-space border fits just fine and is as consistent as can be :p
 
8:31 PM
@dzaima oh damn, loopholes
 
also,
 
I'll fix that as soon as I get home
Will do, thanks!
 
do you plan on allowing single character type borders? Or do corners need to be different
 
@dzaima I don't see why not. I always think about the way mysql renders tables on the command line, using basically -, | and + (for the corners)
But yeah, I don't think it'd be a problem if people used a single character to create the borders
 
@Zacharý Eh, there's a big difference between proving that a polynomial algorithm exists and actually finding one.
 
8:45 PM
@Dennis Yeah.
 
@J.Sallé I don't quite understand the reflection. I'd expect it to be like one of these, but the example seems to be using the 2nd for the vertical bounce and 3rd for horizontal
 

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