The Nineteenth Byte

Really random idea for a challenge: do a task X, but keeping within a lev. distance of N of the previous answer. Be the last one to answer/have the most answers to win.

Anonymous

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Didn't we already have that?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

8:32 PM

I don't think so.

El'endia Starman

Isn't Evolution of Hello World that kind of challenge?

Anonymous

Yeah, we did

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Oh.

Well, shoot.

Anonymous

And you are the last answerer on that challenge

Anonymous

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A: Evolution of "Hello World!"

Answer 176 - Codename Dragon x`4mrZ"#03w(*#class jux!{public static void main(String[] h){#\ #System.Console.Writeln(//@\//Hello*}}print,cat<<#*)\ put" ^ disp"Hello World!") gx`#(O).g!)S(#X` ;}}//printputs;//-##E;]bye</>#*) Distance 7 from Answer 175. For some reason, this works without the ...

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

8:32 PM

>_> d'oh

Geobits

Oh they finally opened an AYCE sushi place in town. I know where I'm headed tonight.

Anonymous

I could probably pretty easily make a Seriously answer from that

CoolestVeto

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ with(Math)

Yus, we are using math now.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

XD

lirtosiast

@Doorknob Hahahaha

Anonymous

8:37 PM

Is there any restriction in that challenge that it has to be ASCII?

Anonymous

Oh printable-ascii durr

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Yes.

:(

Anonymous

That makes Seriously a bit tougher to use

Anonymous

Still doable

El'endia Starman

I think it's good that that restriction is there, because then a non-ASCII answer can't lock out languages that can't handle non-ASCII characters.

Anonymous

8:39 PM

I understand the reason; I just wish I had put an exit command in Seriously in the printable ASCII range

CoolestVeto

kek

I just put a switch/case in an answer.

Do you hate me yet?

Martin Büttner

no, but don't try harder please

LegionMammal978

@CoolestVeto Just?

CoolestVeto

@LegionMammal978 As in, I haven't posted it yet, but I'm putting it in my answer.

Also, it was stupid and didn't help the situation at all.

So I removed it.

TimmyD

Good gravy. 19% of my answer is simply $ to account for variable names.

CoolestVeto

8:44 PM

^ saw that. :P

Anonymous

Success

Anonymous

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A: Evolution of "Hello World!"

Answer 177 - Seriously H.`4mrZ"#03w(*#class jux!{public static void main(String[] h){#\ #System.Console.Writeln(//@\//Hello*}}print,cat<<#*)\ put" ^ disp"Hello World!") gx`#(O)X.g!)S(#X` ;}}//printputs;//-##E;]bye</>#*)`kX Distance 6 from Answer 176 Modifications: + H. (at the start, prints...

TimmyD

Why do I golf in PowerShell again?

:D

Anonymous

@TimmyD Masochism?

TimmyD

Probably

Plus, it's the only language that I'm truly proficient in

GamrCorps

8:46 PM

@aditsu I am creating a new golfing language similar to Golfscript and CJam. Do you mind if I use some of the CJam codebase as a foundation for my language? No big deal if you say no

Anonymous

Comments on this?

Anonymous

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Generate ASCII Art related Given a black-and-white image in any reasonable lossless format (png, ppm, etc.; filename or raw bytes) as input, output ASCII art that is as close to the input image as possible. Rules Only linefeeds and ASCII bytes 32-127 may be used. The input image will be crop...

TimmyD

For me, it's also a lot of fun to see where I can get in relation to other non-esolangs (JavaScript, C/C++, etc.).

Anonymous

PowerShell is about as close to the esolang line as you can get without actually crossing it

TimmyD

You're not wrong.

LegionMammal978

8:50 PM

@Mego ESOLANG LINE DO ~~NOT~~ PLEASE CROSS

Martin Büttner

@Mego Perl is that line, isn't it?

TimmyD

@LegionMammal978 PowerShell is the language that stands right next to the line and leans all the way over as far as possible without falling down, all while saying "I'm not crossing it! See? I'm not crossing it!"

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Mego PHP?

GamrCorps

Poll: What is the language with the longest builtins that you have seen a solution posted on PPCG with?

LegionMammal978

@GamrCorps Mathematica

GamrCorps

8:54 PM

My answer is Swift

El'endia Starman

^^

I'm not sure if there is another language with longer built-ins.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I contemplated making a language with the longest unatural builtins.

LegionMammal978

The longest is MultivariateHypergeometricDistribution

TimmyD

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A: Print the Capitals without the Capitals

Mathematica, 168 153 149 bytes - 20% = 119.2 bytes u="\.55nited\.53tates";\.41dministrative\.44ivision\.44ata[{#,u}&/@\.43ountry\.44ata[u,"\.52egions"],{"\.43apital\.4eame","\.53tate\.41bbreviation"}] Obligatory, but I did not know that any character can be replaced by \.xx or \:xxxx with the ...

Aqua Tart

@LegionMammal978 39 bytes. Not bad.

LegionMammal978

8:58 PM

Shorter is Symbol@Names[][[20711]]

2

CoolestVeto

I worked around my problem!

:D

flawr

@Dennis 100 points for whatever hogwarts house you belong to!

CoolestVeto

Using an implementation I never thought would be used!

Hooray!

Martin Büttner

@LegionMammal978 You should totally add that as a tip.

LegionMammal978

@MartinBüttner It breaks if the Function is assigned a name before it, though

flawr

9:01 PM

@EasterlyIrk Hot or not quite as hot part of CA?

LegionMammal978

And it's also very version-dependent

flawr

@lirtosiast I'm pretty sure it is not continuous, but it is the closest you can get, I think. I did think of a similar solution constructed with bijections between three partitions of the real numbers.

Martin Büttner

@flawr I was very disappointed when I followed the reply chain and found out that this conversation is not about cellular automata. :(

flawr

@MartinBüttner Well you can replace "the real numbers" with any other set you'd like=)

(Omitting the continuity)

El'endia Starman

@MartinBüttner I had much the same reaction yesterday. "Oh, CA meaning California, not cellular automata. :("

Anonymous

9:07 PM

@MartinBüttner Of course

Martin Büttner

@El'endiaStarman anyway, how's your CA simulator coming along?

El'endia Starman

Incidentally, how well do the non-USA people here know the states of the USA?

Martin Büttner

I just found the sickest answer on Mathematica.SE:

68

Q: How can I generate this "domain coloring" plot?

I found this plot on Wikipedia: Domain coloring of $\sin(z)$ over $(-\pi,\pi)$ on $x$ and $y$ axes. Brightness indicates absolute magnitude, saturation represents imaginary and real magnitude. Despite following the link and reading the page nothing I have tried is giving me the result sho...

Easterly Irk

wolframalpha.com/input/?i=random+family+guy+curve

Must. See.

Martin Büttner

@El'endiaStarman meh

El'endia Starman

9:08 PM

@MartinBüttner I haven't been working on it. I actually haven't done any work on it since implementing the render-to-gif feature.

Easterly Irk

@flawr not too hot, but hits 100°F in july/august.

Martin Büttner

"100°F", because that means anything

Dennis

Is this homework? — Dr. belisarius Jun 24 '12 at 4:16

hahaha

flawr

@EasterlyIrk Well then I have to reconsider moving in with you.

El'endia Starman

@MartinBüttner Oh, that's so cool.

Easterly Irk

9:10 PM

@flawr IKR?

flawr

I could barely breathe at 100°F

Easterly Irk

Moving to seattle when I grow up.

They has rain, and consistent weather.

TimmyD

@MartinBüttner Pretty sweet.

Anonymous

100F is a mild summer day here in Texas

flawr

@EasterlyIrk I hope you have AC?=)

Easterly Irk

9:10 PM

Yup, but mom hates it. :/

El'endia Starman

Seattle is wonderful in the summer. I'd hate the rain though.

Easterly Irk

@Mego O_O

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I love rain

Anonymous

Usual summer highs are 103-107F

Easterly Irk

Seattle doesn't have such changing weather.

Anonymous

9:11 PM

We had tornadoes on Christmas, that was exciting

Easterly Irk

@Mego Oh okay, we can get that high too.

flawr

I love rain too. Especially when it is about 0°C and half way snowing and I forgot my gloves at home and still have to ride my bike to the train station.

Easterly Irk

@Mego rofl

Anonymous

@EasterlyIrk ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Easterly Irk

Yep, CA is a synonym for LSD.

/s

TimmyD

9:11 PM

0°C ... ahahaha

Aqua Tart

4

flawr

Whats so fun about 0°C?

Easterly Irk

Grandparents got -20 last winter.

Aqua Tart

dammit

how did it know

flawr

I only know hot temperatures in °F

Easterly Irk

9:12 PM

@AquaTart roflmao

TimmyD

There's routinely a couple days per winter here in Minnesota where °C = °F

El'endia Starman

@AquaTart If you manage to stump the genie, he asks you who you were thinking of.

Aqua Tart

I have stumped it multiple times.

El'endia Starman

And it learns.

Aqua Tart

...but I wasn't expecting him to know Cueball

Even if you know what XKCD is you might not know the term

El'endia Starman

9:13 PM

I'm guessing (at least one) someone else tried Cueball already. :P

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Ask about Danish (black hat's GF)

CoolestVeto

@luserdroog Just the fact that you have that much rep on music.SE makes me already like you. Welcome to 19th.

luser droog

Yay!

CoolestVeto

I've never seen you here before. :O

Yet you have 3k rep.

What is this

aditsu

@GamrCorps that's fine, it's free software :p

luser droog

9:17 PM

I've haven't been around much for over a year. working on other stuff

CoolestVeto

Ah.

That would be why I haven't seen you here before. :P

flawr

@AquaTart What exactly is this?

CoolestVeto

(Joined SE in July, PPCG in October)

Aqua Tart

@flawr en.akinator.com

You think of a character and it asks questions and tries to guess it

flawr

I'm thinking of @AlexA. let's see.

Aqua Tart

9:21 PM

Riker already did that :PP

GamrCorps

@aditsu Sweet! That's going to save me tons of time. Thanks!

Aqua Tart

It's pretty good. I presume it's searching a binary decision tree of some sort but it deals with incorrect answers pretty good so it might be more complicated

It can usually guess popular characters in 10-20 questions and more obscure ones in 30-50.

aditsu

np

TimmyD

@AquaTart Even older popular characters that could now arguably be called obscure. It guessed the 7-Up Spot in I think 14 or 15 questions when I played earlier today.

Aqua Tart

Ha, nice.

Most of my "obscure" characters are pretty damn obscure so it takes it a bit

flawr

9:25 PM

@AquaTart I am disappointed. It couldn't guess AlexA. It couldn't guess Jon Skeet. Can it guess anything?

Aqua Tart

Yes.

TimmyD

@flawr I dunno. Is there a character named "Anything" somewhere?

flawr

A look at the Technology behind the 4D Game Miegakure

►

3

Aqua Tart

Rats, I thought Milo Bloom might stump it

Hmmm

Wow, character only played 14 times.

That's the lowest I've ever seen it.

Doorknob

Took him 50 tries to get Magnus Carlsen (current best chess player) after one incorrect guess

Aqua Tart

9:29 PM

How many questions did it take him to get @

It actually took him quite a couple to get the Wizard of Yendor

Doorknob

I don't remember but 20-30

Aqua Tart

That's pretty damn good.

Martin Büttner

@Doorknob He just got the Groke (upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/90/Buka.jpg) on the second guess

TimmyD

Up to 1478 bytes for my PowerShell answer to the Dyalog 2016 challenge. Only a half dozen or so to go. Not too bad for not having a ^ operator. I should be posting it tomorrow.

Aqua Tart

He can guess himself in about 5 questions which is nice

flawr

9:31 PM

@flawr I'm soo looking forward to the release.

Aqua Tart

Wow, got Drizzt in 20. That was impressive.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

> Question N°2
Does your character have human skin?

>_>

Aqua Tart

Yes, that's a fairly common question. It's not quite as absurd as you might think

Martin Büttner

he didn't get the protagonist from The Witness

flawr

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ NO IT HAS DRAGON SCALES

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

9:35 PM

XD

Aqua Tart

@MartinBüttner Probably too new.

If no one has stumped him with it before he wouldn't know

Martin Büttner

@flawr ah yeah I heard about that a couple of months ago...

looks like Fez on steroids

flawr

Fez?

Aqua Tart

ooh I loved Fez

gonna go check this out

flawr

Well it has been in development for years.

Aqua Tart

9:36 PM

Fez (video game)

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flawr

Thanks

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

> I know who you are thinking of, but I believe this is not for children

>_>_>

Martin Büttner

Fez is Miegakure minus a dimension

El'endia Starman

@flawr AHHH Miegakure! I can't wait for that game to come out...

Aqua Tart

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ If you give it an age under 18 at the beginning it tries to be "child-friendly"

at least I think

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

9:38 PM

@AquaTart Is that all it uses it for?

Aqua Tart

Yeah because some of the questions it asks at times are obscene so :P

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Oh.

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