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crl

00:02

Oh I realised it was just subtitled in French, but the guy is speaking English. Boulder seems a great place to do some hiking/wild climbing (without ropes and all this stuff)

But ultra-trail is surnatural: 160km!

I could do that distance in that time ~20h, but with a bike on a road

@ABeautifulMind damn, I'll apply, I didn't read well they give a salary range "Rémunération entre 30 et 46 K€ selon profil et expérience." 30 is 30 000/12=2500/month still a lot for a lazy man like me but possible

A Beautiful Mind

@crl OK, don't apply if you are not ready.

crl

I should be next week, I can't stand my parents...

I must find a job to not see them

Last job I had, in 2012-2013, I was sleeping at work the week-end, to avoid my parents and because it was fun to do so, spend all night chatting/coding, then I've rent a flat for a year or more, but left it because I was over-sensible to all smokers there

then I took those antipsychotics injections that took away many neurons and a lot of motivation :(

A Beautiful Mind

@crl Do you still take meds?

crl

@ABeautifulMind Of course no, and I regret a lot having taken them

A Beautiful Mind

@crl Do you go for psychotherapy?

crl

00:17

I see one woman psychiatrist, every 2 weeks, but now I may slowly stop with her, it's a bit useless. She said she had no solution for me

A Beautiful Mind

If she does not give you meds, what does she do?

crl

@ABeautifulMind just talking

A Beautiful Mind

@crl If she said so, then she is really useless.

crl

I pushed her a bit that time, to make her admit it

But the solution can just come from me, I just have to understand the smoke from cigarettes (brand cigs, cigars, e-cigs,...) is just some toxicity like we can find elsewhere, and in small quantity our bodies handle it easily

Johan Larsson

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crl

00:23

But I feel like each time our bodies fight with toxicity or a disease, it loses life expectancy

Johan Larsson

related, think I have spammed it before

crl

00:38

@JohanLarsson related to what? sorry

Johan Larsson

cigars

crl

ah right, I've seen him smoke-sing

github.com/nneonneo/2048-ai/blob/master/2048.cpp

> My approach encodes the entire board (16 entries) as a single 64-bit integer (where tiles are the nybbles, i.e. 4-bit chunks). On a 64-bit machine, this enables the entire board to be passed around in a single machine register.

duh!, how can you understand such code

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto No. I would need a house for that, or some overpriced condo.

crl

condoms?

Condominium

A condominium, or condo, is the form of housing tenure and other real property where a specified part of a piece of real estate (usually of an apartment house) is individually owned. Use of land access to common facilities in the piece such as hallways, heating system, elevators, and exterior areas are executed under legal rights associated with the individual ownership. These rights are controlled by the association of owners that jointly represent ownership of the whole piece. "Condominium" is a legal term used in the United States and in most provinces of Canada. In Australia, New Zealand, and...

Oh that, my parents live in an awful condo, with horribly lazy guardians highly paid. The charges are so high

They are proprietary, but with that charges it's looking like they rent the flat

Robusto

02:09

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Awwww . . .

Robusto

02:37

I wanted to hear from someone who has gigabit ethernet.

@tchrist: I like this proverb: Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto Sawry.

Robusto

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Well, I expect you to run out and buy a house forthwith.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

04:21

single-word-request : If Windows and e-mail training are systems training types, what are safety and ethics training?

Humanities?

tchrist

@Robusto Los viejos siempre decimos eso.

@crl It's unsafe to leave the condom inium.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Eew.

tchrist

04:49

That too.

Robusto

@tchrist No tonto que un viejo tonto

tchrist

Do you want un tonto que es viejo, or do you want un viejo que es tonto? Remember that no is always an adverb; the adjective is ningún.

A fool who is old or an old man who is foolish?

Robusto

@tchrist I was going for "There's no fool like an old fool."

tchrist

Then perhaps No hay ningún tonto como un tonto viejo.

Robusto

Better.

tchrist

05:07

It makes sense to put the adjective afterwards there. It's more distingishing/contrasting that way. Old usually come first but not here. Tu viejo amigo is your old friend but tu amigo viejo is your OLD friend--one who is old, not one of long standing.

Robusto

makes notes

tchrist

Remember tu bonita esposa is your pretty wife, but tu esposa bonita is your PRETTY wife (unlike all the others). Remember that article that explained there aren't "rules" for these, exactly, but there certainly are predilections and these are not random. El mero hecho that swapping them changes meaning shows that. (mero hecho = mere fact).

A good rule of thumb is that switching from normal word order in Spanish corresponds to italics or ALL CAPS in English, emphasizing the less common ordering.

Robusto

ok

tchrist

Compare "Roberto lo sabe" (normal) with "Lo sabe Roberto": The second focuses on the subject but the first does not.

The second is of course the less common way, but in no fashion uncommon. It's saying what it wants to say: "Rob knows it".

Robusto

Similar to vocal stress in English.

tchrist

05:19

EXACTLY!

You prolly won't contrasting pairs like that in your lessons, but it is kinda important to know about. Of course, first you need to grasp what's normal order to see what is abnormal.

Italian and Portuguese both do this too, French a bit but not at alll so much; English almost but not quite never.

"Helms too they took."

Insert a verb above after won't, like get, see, encounter, find, be shown.

Another form of emphasis is dative doubling. No nos gusta a nosotros = WE don't like it.

No te gusta a ti = YOU don't like it.

Robusto

hmm

-5

Q: The merchant of venice

Do you think that the Jew of Venice title would be more appropriate a title for this play than the Merchant of Venice?

tchrist

But le sometimes takes a double dative just to disambiguate, not just for emphasis. No le gusta a ella for places where the antecedent of le might be unclear.

Robusto

Voted to delete

tchrist

Was waiting for the last close.

Te lo dije ayer = I told you it yesterday. Add an a ti at either end and it becomes YOU, emphatically.

Robusto

05:35

Funny, but I live a few towns away from Ayer, so I can travel to yesterday whenever I want.

Estoy cansado, así que voy a la cama.

tchrist

They also have an anteayer as one word for "day before yesterday".

Am already there. Night!

Robusto

¡Buenas noches!

tchrist

Igualmente.

Johan Larsson

05:58

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A: What is the optimal algorithm for the game, 2048?

I developed a 2048 AI using expectimax optimization, instead of the minimax search used by @ovolve's algorithm. The AI simply performs maximization over all possible moves, followed by expectation over all possible tile spawns (weighted by the probability of the tiles, i.e. 10% for a 4 and 90% fo...

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