The Nineteenth Byte

1:46 PM

@Jono2906 I have answer-spammed this challenge, so if this rule was wrong, I need to delete all of my answers.

CMC: φ-φπ

Phi minus phi pi

@A̲̲ In what language?

@Adám In ~~English~~ Mathematical notation.

Quintec

@Adám Arguably Wolfram Language? :P

1:51 PM

@A̲̲ The English programming language is generally not allowed on CGCC.

@A̲̲ No that'd be what I wrote.

To clarify: return approximately -3.46517, but with your normal precision.

Quintec

@Adám Japt, 7 bytes yikes this is long

@Quintec Wow, that's one cool looking Japt interpreter.

Quintec

Shaggy is awesome

My head is exploding

PhiNotPi

Next week I'm gonna be interviewing an undergrad for a research position. (This isn't exactly a job, but kinda is because they'd be receiving course credit.) This particular person has an appropriate major (they're a neuro major and this is a neuro lab) but they lack coding experience though, which is an issue when coding is 95% of the actual work. So that brings me to my question: how can one judge innate coding talent / self-learning potential in an interview?

2:05 PM

@PhiNotPi Look at their reputation on CGCC during the interview.

@PhiNotPi Btw, my CMC was in honour of you. Can you spot how?

φ(-π) is arguably more appropriate.

PhiNotPi

phi(1-pi)

@A̲̲ How does "not" translate to subtraction?

@PhiNotPi exactly.

@A̲̲ Why the odd username? How about Ⓐ?

@Adám A username must at least be 3 unicode characters...

2:11 PM

@A̲̲ Ah, I didn't know. And I suppose zero-width spaces are banned?

I guess so.

Maybe I should try to change to Ⓐ... I haven't tried it yet.

(Or insert 0-width spaces between A and _.)

CMC: Simple super/subscript "TᴇX"-to-Unicode — you have to handle a single level of ^ and _ with single digits and multi-digits in braces. E.g. 3x_{10}^2 → 3x₁₀² and 10_211_2 → 10₂11₂

ngn

@PhiNotPi industry has been trying to find out how for decades and they still do it (wrong) by giving silly puzzles at interviews

@PhiNotPi You could ask "How would you approach the problem …" and let them talk you through their thought process.

CMC: Simple italic-to-unicode - You have to handle one level of italic asterisks and convert the text to unicode italics. E.g. *fM* -> ƒℳ

Q: 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘦 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 F̲o̲r̲m̲a̲t̲t̲e̲r̲ (*Unicode* **Markdown** __Formatter__)

2:29 PM

If you cannot see this post, you can use this image Your task is to create a markdown parser that outputs Unicode. It should support 𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗱, 𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤, 𝙼𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎, and 𝗎̲𝗇̲𝖽̲𝖾̲𝗋̲𝗅̲𝗂̲𝗇̲𝖾̲. Every alphabetical character should be converted into Math Sans. This includes the c...

code-golf string unicode

@A̲̲ What are the rules for beginning and ending italics? All asterisks swap mode?

Since it is a duplicate...

CMC: Find the first unanswered CMC in TNB.

CMC: Implement a left-going marquee. [] indicate the range of a marquee. E.g. a[abcd] Generates a marquee. Steps after N seconds (N is a decimal less than 1 which is set by you): abcda -> acdab -> adabc -> aabcd and then loops back forever.

@A̲̲ It isn't. It is significantly easier.

@Adám This is a subset of the challenge.

@A̲̲ Not a bad thing.

@A̲̲ …/search?q=marquee

So only one is a non-duplicate CMC.

1 hour later…

Poke

3:46 PM

anyone doing AOC2019?

@Poke Yeah, a lot of people have been discussing it on the discord server

discord.gg/KUj9ua

Poke

4:09 PM

just what i didn't need... another discord channel

lulz

A month ago it was ded™, but with the recent anti-SE sentiment floating around it's been revived

Poke

have there been any updates on that

sometimes i look at meta

ngn

4:30 PM

@Poke yes

@DJMcMayhem Are you saying there's discord with SE?

Ha, apparently

Seriously though, Discord is like an alternative location for CGCC chat?

@Adám Kind of?

It's an unofficial server for PPCG people, and some people prefer to user that over anything SE affiliated

Unfortunately, it also fragments the community, well chat, at least. I suppose main challenges still live on SE for now.

Is there a Discord copy level above "BEYOND GODLIKE!!!!"?

2 hours later…

Skidsdev

6:39 PM

@DJMcMayhem there's an anti-SE sentiment floating around?