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noodle person

00:27

Who would submit an AI-generated edit suggestion to code golf stack exchange as an anonymous account

Like if they were doing it for the rep why are they anonymous

lyxal

and why that one specific answer?

then again stranger things have happened

like that one time some bingus posted a spam answer to "tips for golfing in Vyxal 3"

and used the readme in the answer

> Literate mode is designed to allow you to write papa's freezeria vyxal 3 programs in complete ascii while maintaining a SBCS score.

classic :p

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l4m2

03:11

What's the strategy for connect-3(like connect-4, 3 in a row enough, gravity applies on both dimensions)?

user

03:36

@lyxal lmao I need the link

@lyxal I'm afraid I just blue myself

noodle person

codegolf.stackexchange.com/revisions/257239/4

@emanresuA I think you forgot to remove the [1] earlier in the text - but also, shouldn't the whole thing be re-written, since it's just admitting to using AI which isn't allowed?

lyxal

04:00

@user codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/267164/78850

10k+ only link obviously

@noodleperson only unattributed ai content is explicitly banned on cgcc

Because of the inherited rule from the greater SE network

It's up to the site to ban or not ban attributed ai stuff

Attributed ai answers are explicitly not banned, questions, well that didn't get an explicit response but I imagine it'd be the same

Q: Should AI generated questions and or answers be banned?

Relevant discussion that inspired this question Questions and answers (content) generated by AIs like LLMs (e.g ChatGPT, Google Bard, character.ai) are not prohibited on the StackExchange network by default: With due consideration, we've decided no network-wide, general policy regarding banning ...

noodle person

@lyxal Aha. Well, @emanresuA just removed the attribution :)

I'll roll it back, I guess.

lyxal

I added it back because it wasn't completely useless :p

noodle person

Well ok

lyxal

(as in I rolled it back myself before I saw you were going to lol)

noodle person

:+1:

lyxal

04:09

Side note, why is it easier for <2+k rep to do a roll back on mobile from the edit page than it is for 2k+ rep?

To roll back with edit rights means to have to go to answer history and find the right revision

noodle person

Weird

lyxal

Without edit privileges, all accessible from the edit page

noodle person

idk

lyxal

I'd like to also thank SwiftKey for autocorrecting well to we'll, despite the fact I changed it back

If I didn't have unlimited edits that'd be ever worse lol

user

@lyxal Aww ok

lyxal

04:13

You don't have sufficient rep?

I'll screenshot for you then

user

Thanks

lyxal

user

I am in awe

lyxal

No you're user

user

I stand corrected

lyxal

04:16

You stand as user

Not corrected

user

...

lyxal

😎

emanresu A

04:41

@lyxal ... I really don't think providing a citation in that form is remotely useful, or something we want to encourage

noodle person

05:08

@emanresuA Sure, but without it, it's plagiarism

(Arguably, plagiarism either way, but whatever)

emanresu A

... I guess :p

lyxal

@emanresuA even though it's a questionable practice, it's necessary to allow the challenge to not be deleted

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l4m2

07:09

CMC Output a sequence that sums to 1 and can be unordered paired that each pair sum to 0

example solution

Simd

07:39

@DLosc yes!

CMC I have a sorted list of positive integers I want to print. If there are three or more that are consecutive I want to show the interval as start-end. So 2,6,8,9,10,12 becomes 2,6,8-10,12. How golfed can you do this in python?

Themoonisacheese

08:24

@mousetail yes, that's why it's either just trivial or it feels like 2 cchallenges in a trenchcoat

att

08:37

@l4m2 both dimensions?

l4m2

@att aka they fall both down and left

att

depends on the size of the grid i think

Themoonisacheese

@Simd not extremely golfed but better thhan anything i can come up with stackoverflow.com/a/52302366/7611125

Sandbox Posts

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Count collisions in a python dictionary hashing python code-golf Task Given a list of integers as input, simulate Python's dictionary insertion process and count the total number of collisions that would occur. The process works as follows: Start with a hash table of size 8 For each number in th...

att

08:53

actually i might have a p1 wins strategy for ~4x4 up?

att

09:10

nvm

att

09:40

@Simd thought i had 69 but i read more closely and this is 76

Redz

@att is the {*a} conversion to a dictionary?

att

set

Redz

cool

att

there's a special ** for splatting dicts

69b also combines just two consecutive elements

Neil

10:39

for i in sys.stdin:print(i.rstrip(),'->',f(eval(i))) avoids the EOF error

Mukundan314

for i in open(0): can be used to avoid the sys import

att

11:01

habit

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The Empty String Photographer

12:35

I believe cryptographic hash functions may be key to solving the P=NP problem.

I believe the time complexity for solving inverse Blake2b is O(256^n), where n is the number of bytes.

But the blake2b hash is definitely polynomial time

But if P=NP then this would imply all hash functions could be cracked in polynomial time

(And there goes your security)

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lyxal

13:49

nice

Themoonisacheese

all of that just so i'd give you an upvote

lyxal

well actually see that for once wasn't the intention

noodle person

14:13

@lyxal Very cool

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Ginger

15:38

→ 1 joint ranking moved to The Nineteenth Bakery

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Sandbox Posts

17:04

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Recently, in an Analysis class, I was tasked with proving that the dyadic rationals are dense in R (which can be proven by the archimedean property). The dyadic rationals are defined as: $$\left\{ \dfrac{m}{2^n} \; | \; m \in \mathbb{Z},\; n \in \mathbb{N} \right\}$$ Your Goal: for two real numbe...

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Simd

18:24

@att maybe I should make it a challenge

@Themoonisacheese pandas is cheating!

att

18:39

Q: Determine ranges from a list of values

Given an unsorted list of unique, positive integers, output the shortest list of the longest possible ranges of sequential integers. INPUT An unsorted list of unique, positive integers e.g. 9 13 3 11 8 4 10 15 Input can be taken from any one of the following: stdin command-line arguments ...