@El'endiaStarman You should read behind the lines, I'm just saying sequence challenges can sometimes be boring if they're not done correctly, and it's kind of the same with kolmogorov-complexity challenges, which I've personally gotten tired of.
@TheBitByte In here and pretty much on Stack Exchange in general, if you need people to "read between the lines" to get your meaning, you've failed at communicating clearly.
@TheBitByte What distinguishes sequence and kolmogorov-complexity challenges? They're both instances of "output this pattern". What makes the former more interesting than the latter?
@El'endiaStarman I was just saying it's more true for these specific types of challenges. This is just my personal opinion, anyways, and I'm not forcing anybody else to accept it.
@TheBitByte Personal opinions can be valuable, especially if they're backed up with solid reasoning that may potentially lead to an improvement in the quality of the site.
@TheBitByte What, in your opinion, distinguishes the creative KC challenges from the dull ones?
@TheBitByte Graphical KC challenges are pretty rare, so that alone makes the challenge of outputting the G in Google's logo much more interesting. Are there any text-only KC challenges you particularly like? Also, the rickroll lyrics challenge was one of the early ones, and has been a dupe target for many other challenges with the same idea. A recent example would support your point better.
@TheBitByte That challenge has a different purpose than most. Most challenges invite competition, but catalog challenges are meant simply to collect examples in many different languages. True, the core is not all that interesting, but it's not really meant to be.
Has anyone here ever successfully used MinGW and the ncurses port? I'm using the 32bit libs from invisible-island.net/ncurses/#download_mingw - but ld just skips them as incompatible.
@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC There have been meta discussions, blog posts, and even voting/polls, and as much as I'd like to see Ask Ubuntu closed, it doesn't seem happening any time soon.
It might be wiser to multiply the entropy with the length of the string. Otherwise one can add arbitrary many copies of a single character to bring H_0 arbitrarily close to 0. — Angs4 mins ago
@TheBitByte: The main lesson here is: don't be so antagonistic. Your messages rarely seem to have any constructive purpose, and that's a problem. Antagonistic and unconstructive attitudes and messages are unwelcome in TNB and the SE chat network (and sites) as a whole.
I would start this post with something along the lines of "without naming names", but I think it's time to pinpoint the issues we currently face in chat and take action.
This is a follow-up to The state of chat. This post aims to identify specific problems and specific problematic users. Because...
@TheBitByte Genuine question: are you at all interested in improving the behaviour which has earned you several kicks and suspensions and which has been pointed out to you many times?
@MartinEnder I'll do that when I'm not being called names every five minutes. Try sitting in a room with everybody swearing at you and they wouldn't be a tiny bit surprised that you swore back.
hey, question for you all: if you were to hookup to my KoTHComm, would you prefer instructions on how to clone/organize your project, and the different modules you can use, or would you prefer a commented, premade "sample project" you can branch off of?
A sestina is a format of poem that follows an interesting pattern that we can generate. It has six stanzas of six lines each, where the last words of each line in the first stanza make up the line endings in each successive stanza, rotated in a set pattern. (There's also a three-line stanza at th...
@TheBitByte I don't see anyone calling you names, unless you mean that some people have complained about your continued off-topic messages and pointless arguments for the sake of arguing. When someone tells you that your chat behaviour is being disruptive, then it might be better to consider if they have a point instead of escalating the derailing behaviour and blaming everyone else.
@MartinEnder I don't see you much on chat here, which might be why you didn't notice how I was being treated like a special snowflake that has murdered somebody and deserves to be punished. But it doesn't matter, right? Nobody cares.
Why don't you grow up?
In the past week a meme involving the young actor Aaron Bailey became trending in most Brazilian social networks. Entitled "why don't you grow up" it consists in repeating a sentence replacing its vowels with is (it's a bit more complicated than that, I'll explain below). ...
The main reason I'm changing it is that the current method uses base64 encoded whatever, while v2 will transmit raw binary data, which is easier on the bandwidth.
Localize strings to Gaot Spek
Given a string, output that string into gaot spek.
How to translate into gaot spek
When two vowels (strictly aeiou) are next to each other, flip the order.
please, plz -> pls
help -> halp
what -> wat
? -> ?? (therefore ?? -> ????)
a e surrounded by non-vowels sho...
@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC Take it to the trash room, please. TNB is not the place for this style of writing. We occasionally have fun, but serious discussion matters more than fun and games, as shown by the chattiquette.
Localize strings to Gaot Spek
Given a string, output that string into gaot spek.
How to translate into gaot spek
When two vowels (strictly aeiou) are next to each other, flip the order.
please, plz -> pls
help -> halp
what -> wat
? -> ?? (therefore ?? -> ????)
a e surrounded by non-vowels sho...
Polygonal Numbers
Introduction
In mathematics, a polygonal number is a number represented as dots or pebbles arranged in the shape of a regular polygon. The dots are thought of as alphas (units). These are one type of 2-dimensional figurate numbers.
The number 10, for example, can be arranged ...
@betseg Allow me to explain why I perform such actions. It is through inductive reasoning that we can reach a conclusion, but because of its characteristics, it is only a probability, a value, something that would not necessarily be the case with deductive reasoning. After that, we examine the consequences of....
The IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic (IEEE 754) is a technical standard for floating-point computation established in 1985 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The standard addressed many problems found in the diverse floating point implementations that made them difficult to use reliably and portably. Many hardware floating point units now use the IEEE 754 standard.
The standard defines:
arithmetic formats: sets of binary and decimal floating-point data, which consist of finite numbers (including signed zeros and subnormal numbers), infinities, and special...
@LuisMendo I think it might be relatively easy to convert from a "binary markov chain" coin (where the current probability depends on the result of the previous flip) to a normal bernoulli factory.
@PhiNotPi If what you do is take the odd and even-indexed values, I think that does not assure independence. Independence in a Markov chain asymptotically tends to 0 with the index difference between the two observations, but never reaches 0, in general
@Flp.Tkc yes, anytime an answer claims to be "7 bytes" but actually contains 7 Unicode characters, the "real source file" has some other encoding and is actually 7 bytes long.
@LuisMendo I use the current value to determine which subcategory the next value goes into.
Any time the current flip is tails, the next flip goes into the first category (similar for if current flip is heads).
since any time the current flip is heads, for example, the next flip is IID with respect to all other flips which occurred after a heads.
@PhiNotPi i understand that, but does the language have to actually handle files with that encoding or can you just use standard text files that would theoretically in the specified encoding be 1 byte per character?
Your interpreter has to actually work with files in that encoding
What a lot of languages do (including my own golflang) is default to the smaller encoding, but allow a command-line flag for UTF-8 encoding for convenience
Print the Input
So, I'm rather surprised that we don't have this already...
Input
Any single valid ASCII string without newlines ('\n', '\f', '\r') with a length of 2 ^ 64 - 1 at most.
Output
That exact same ASCII string. Trailing and leading whitespace is forbidden, and trailing and leading...