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7:02 PM
@wizzwizz4 Maybe he's trying to increase the questions/day-ratio
 
@Adnan Maybe we should join in... Any ideas bordering on the complete?
 
ahem
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴcode-golf {{Meta: a double enclosure {{...}} means a meta comment.}} The cosmic number! There is an old comic strip that relates to this challenge. I've written a blog post on it, as well. So, your task is to print the steps to get to the cosmic number. To get there, one simply counts the numb...

 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

SuperJedi224Count common Game of Life patterns. code-golfgame-of-lifeparsing The task here is to read from a Golly .rle or plaintext file (your choice) whose filename is provided (on STDIN or as a command line argument) and identify and count the common patterns in the grid encoded therein. Your program s...

 
Oh heck @MartinBüttner. I forgot to write up that KotH I mentioned last week
Let me write down the rules in the morning
 
7:13 PM
If you think they're ready, go for it!
 
Man, chat on mobile has got nothing on chat on browser
 
I am thinking about a series on machine learning. It might be a bit complicated. I will start to write it up as soon as I can.
 
@wizzwizz4 Well, I was planning to post a lot of questions at some point, but the problem is that quantity isn't more important than quality
So it takes at least half an hour to write a challenge, including research, test cases and searching for duplicates on the site
 
@Adnan And that is why I don't post questions, unless I have a really good idea. (Not after some of my... disasters.)
 
what's wrong with me? :
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A: Shorten an already short mathematical expression

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'BʀɪᴇɴEmotinomicon, 48 bytes / 13 characters I do it, not because it is short, but because it is fun. Try it here. You'll have to copy+paste it into the textbox. 😼⏪🆙😦✖😎😿➕😨😼🆙😄⏩ Explanation: 😼 ⏪ 🆙 😦 ✖ 😎 😿 ➕ 😼 🆙 😄 ⏩ explanation 😼 ...

 
7:23 PM
@wizzwizz4 Yeah, I also think that people are mostly scared of posting questions, because they're afraid of downvotes and all the criticism
I think that's the main reason why there aren't a lot of questions on this site
 
@Adnan cough cough peter cough cough
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ conor pls
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ huh?
 
Don't make fun of Conor's Victorian Era disease
 
7:25 PM
@Sherlock9 shhhhh
no one must know
ɪᴛ ᴡɪʟʟ ʙᴇ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴀɪɴᴇᴅ
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I like the colors of the explaination
It looks like skittles
 
@Adnan Is my question something to be scared about?
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Q: Map string to Hilbert curve

wizzwizz4Let's map some strings to 2d space, fractal style. Your task is to compute a Hilbert curve and lay a string along it. Task The task is to take the single-line input string, and lay it out along a Hilbert curve big enough to contain it, but no bigger. Try to make the byte count as low as possi...

 
I think NBZ is trying to push us up to 10 q/day for graduation
 
@wizzwizz4 No, it's very detailed and clear
So that is a good quality question
 
@Ampora And I think we should help.
 
7:30 PM
6 q in th'last 7 days I think.
@wizzwizz4 Yah, I'm trying to put out 1q/7 days atm, but post-applications, I'll b putting out moar than that.
 
@wizzwizz4 I'm in my vacation now, so I can try to post 1 question a day
 
Should I post my Game of Life question now?
 
@SuperJedi224 Looks fine to me
 
hello
 
@AndréMuta Hi
 
7:43 PM
How many digits are in 1 billion factorial?
 
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Q: Count common Game of Life patterns

SuperJedi224The task here is to read from a Golly .rle or plaintext file (your choice) whose filename is provided (on STDIN or as a command line argument) and identify and count the common patterns in the grid encoded therein. Your program should be able to identify and distinguish at least the fifteen most...

 
@quintopia Lots
 
@Adnan thanks :D
 
@quintopia 8,565,705,523
 
Thanks
 
7:49 PM
mini: Find how many digits in n! for input n
 
@Dennis Very almost one more.
 
How can I see if someting is going to stdout in R?
 
That's floor(log_10(S))+1 of Stirling's approximation if Stirling's approximation = S
But it isn't 100% right. Stirling's approximation is an approximation (although it's an amazing 1 :P)
 
how many questions have been submitted today?
 
7:53 PM
> one
> one
 
15
~27% by NBZ
 
12 excluding on hold and duplicates
 
Does anyone know what div means in the finite abelian groups challenge?
 
@AndréMuta what's the daily requirement for a site to graduate? :3 On November 1st, of course.
 
7:56 PM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ wat?
 
@AndréMuta this site in beta needs N questions a day
 
Oh, I didn't know that.
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I believe it's 10
 
@Ampora But it has a known error function.
@AndréMuta Don't pay any attention. He's just trolling you.
This site isn't going to graduate, but nor is it going to be deleted. It's in permanent beta.
 
@PeterTaylor That's a shame
 
8:00 PM
@PeterTaylor oh is that confirmed?
 
Why that?
 
Because SE is a network of Q&A sites, and PPCG is not a Q&A site.
 
@Adnan ah, okay
@Dennis wait really? XD
 
My understanding was that they said that they were disregarding the metrics and permanent beta was possible, and we kind of assumed that we were one of them.
 
@Dennis So how does TIO handle language updates?
Do you have to update them manually?
Or do you use git magic stuff
 
8:02 PM
@quartata For now, yes.
 
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Q: The Complement Cat

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'BʀɪᴇɴObjective Write a full program that outputs (to STDOUT or closest alternative) an arbitrary string of text, no more than 64 characters long. Simple enough, right? Well, here's the catch: You may not use any characters that were present in the previous answer's output. That's right, none of them. ...

 
@Dennis Rats pl would do that in three also but I don't have length yet :P
@Dennis Mkay.
 
when someone upvotes the initial answer? o_o
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A: The Complement Cat

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'BʀɪᴇɴPython 3 Uses: !CGaceilmnoprstw z. print("Germanic Capitlization is awesome!") Simply prints Germanic Capitlization is awesome! with no restrictions. Good luck!

 
8:04 PM
Just found that on tumblr.
 
Well, to be fair weather can affect suicide rates
 
\o/ halfway to mortarboard
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ so I have to write a program that doesn't have any of the characters that your output had? Is my output allowed to have them?
 
@SuperJedi224 My conclusion: Somebody is really bad at math.
 
@AndréMuta Yes and yes.
 
8:12 PM
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Q: Convolve integers in subquadratic time

FUZxxlAn linear discrete convolution is an operation that turns two vectors of numbers into a third vector of numbers by multiplying elements inside-out. Formally, for two vectors a and b with elements 0 to n - 1 and the convention that a[i] == b[i] == 0 for i < 0 || i >= N, the discrete linear convolu...

 
@Dennis really
 
\o/ 4222 rep.
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I just had 666, there should be a hat for that.
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ 4400+
 
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A: The Complement Cat

Stewie GriffinMATLAB Uses: !GSaefgimnoprstuw and newline. [83,116,101,119,105,101,32,71,114,105,102,102,105,110,32,105,115,32,97,32,112,114,111,109,105,110,101,110,116,32,103,101,110,105,111,117,115,33,''] Prints: ans = Stewie Griffin is a prominent genious!

Is that a valid output scheme in MATLAB? @StewieGriffin
I don't know MATLAB
Gah, I kiled the chat >_<
 
8:22 PM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ That sounds painful
 
@SuperJedi224 ಠ_ಠ
 
@Rainbolt haha
 
@PeterTaylor I don't think there's any evidence to say "this site isn't going to graduate." It won't right now, but that's not to say it won't ever.
 
@AlexA. The actual reason is overcrowding, since 103% of Chicago's population lives in Chicago.
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That's a lot of Chicago in Chicago.
 
8:27 PM
I also have no clue why the total number of homicides is 9 times as high in Chicago, but the number of homicides per 100K only 4 times as high...
I think it's that extra 3 percent's fault somehow. They can't be trusted.
 
The table looks like it was made in Excel so I immediately disregard its validity.
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@AlexA. so sayeth the OS X user
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ hmmmmwhat
@Dennis The Chicagclones.
Clones of Chicago citizens hell-bent on destruction.
 
@TimmyD I know :P
 
8:32 PM
@TimmyD This is literally the shittiest product I've ever used.
Office for Mac is complete garbage.
My theory is that it's Microsoft's way of giving the middle finger to Mac users.
 
@Dennis It's because people in Texas are friendly. I'm dead serious.
 
@Rainbolt I believe it.
(At least outwardly friendly :P)
 
That's a better way of putting it
 
Who knows what goes on inside Doorknob's metal knob.
 
@AlexA. Oh, I dunno ... have you tried Lotus Notes?
 
8:34 PM
@TimmyD Nope. Never heard of it.
 
Lotus Notes is that endless virtual notepad that Math professors use to teach in college
 
All of my math professors just used the chalk board.
In fact, one of my professors would write a bunch of math, erase a hole in the middle of it, and write more math in there. It was incredibly confusing.
 
@AlexA. Be glad.
 
If you write big enough for 300 students to be able to see your chalkboard then kudos to you
 
Also,
 
8:37 PM
SexualEducation
 
@Rainbolt In the bigger math classes (100+ students) at the University of Washington, the professors would use projectors with the wet erase markers.
 
@Seadrus Congratulations, your answer far strengthened mine
 
@Rainbolt Assuming that was related to Timmy's image, I think my education was a little different than yours... ._.
 
There's a file in the image with that name
Well technically it could be "SexualEducatio". I extrapolated the "n".
 
Undoubtedly related to the fact that Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" is also present.
 
8:44 PM
This Skype message still make me laugh even after seeing it every day for the last year or so:
user image
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Haha
 
To all who are working on Play Antichess! pull the updated code from github now. I just fixed a major bug causing the game result output to be reversed.
 
@JAtkin Ok, thanks for the notice!
Btw:
Perhaps it's just me, but I'm getting an error when trying to use getFieldAtLoc on ReadOnlyBoard: groovy.lang.ReadOnlyPropertyException: Cannot set readonly property: pos for class: com.ppcgse.koth.antichess.controller.Field. Might it have to do with the fact that it's trying to clone the Field while pos is final? — ProgramFOX 1 min ago
 
Huh. What is your code? Is the error in the controller or something you are doing?
 
@JAtkin Basically I need a deep clone of a Board. It's an error in something I'm doing, but the stack trace points to getFieldAtLoc.
I do need a deep clone, because I'm simulating moves, and if I don't have a deep clone it just makes those moves on the actual game, which is of course undesired.
This is my code to deep-clone the board: gist.github.com/ProgramFOX/c6eb8ac43db59d6a7d0f
 
8:53 PM
@AlexA. Lotus Notes 6.0 was horrendous. Hitting <esc> while on the main screen would close the entire application without warning. <ctrl-n> did nothing (as opposed to practically every other program ever where it opens/makes something new). Out-of-office auto-responses would only go out during nightly maintenance at like 3:00am or something rather than immediately. <F5> is refresh in nearly every other application, but it's "Lock session" in Notes. Just horrible. All around bad.
 
@TimmyD 3/10 would accidentally close again
 
So, I just found out that the phone number I put on my resume is wrong in the last digit.... >_<
 
@ProgramFOX Lol, use this line (the link is to a bot I wrote)
 
>_< indeed.
 
@El'endiaStarman Ouch!
 
8:57 PM
@El'endiaStarman Send a follow-up email with a regex command
 
I need a feature that automatically freezes chat when I start typing.
 
@JAtkin That's what I was doing, but when simulating moves on it (by calling the movePiece method), the debug output was saying that those simulations were applied to the actual game board. So I wanted the deep clone.
 
@TimmyD Well, the error has been there since at least May 2015...
 
Odd, Well that should be a deep clone. I need to bring out my debugger.
 
I've applied to dozens of jobs in that time... >_>
 
8:59 PM
Oh. My condolences.
 
@El'endiaStarman Luckily, at least in my experience, you'll be contacted by email before being contacted by phone.
So if your email address is wrong, that's a bigger issue
 
@AlexA. Yeah, and in the same vein, phone is not the way to reach me. I regularly read text messages more than a day later and I never answer calls.
 
Depends on what kind of job you are applying for. I got a phone call when I applied for YMCA Lifeguard, Subway, and IT Support. I got an email when I applied for Software Developer (both times)
 
But I found out because an HR person (I assume) tried to call me, and then emailed me.
 
@ProgramFOX Try changing the line in Field that says @AutoClone to @AutoClone(style = AutoCloneStyle.COPY_CONSTRUCTOR) and see if that works.
 
9:01 PM
ok, will try
 
@El'endiaStarman I do like how lots of people nowadays have a cell phone but rarely use the "phone" portion thereof.
 
My partner has always gotten phone calls from every school that wanted to offer him a job as a teacher
 
Uh, guys?
I just got a secret hat.
 
Right. If it's a technical job (which is what I'd assume you're after), you're more likely to receive an email first.
 
Called Flip Flop.
 
9:02 PM
Me too
 
@TimmyD Much more sensible for me because I'm deaf. :P
 
@AlexA. Wwwwwat are those?!?
 
What are whats?
 
The hats.
Why?
I suppose the correct question would be "Why are those..?"
 
At some point complete sentences help discussions move along
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9:03 PM
Wat?
 
Flip Flop is the only secret hat I've found
What color did you get?
 
Tan
 
@El'endiaStarman Well, at least you have a legitimate reason. I know a couple people that I don't think have ever made or received a call on their cell phones.
 
I have blue. o.o
 
@ProgramFOX That should be a partial fix, I need to fix Piece code as well.
 
9:04 PM
@TimmyD s/cell phones/cellular texting apparati/g
 
I have the white one
 
@ProgramFOX Hang on, I don't think that will work
 
So... do we know what that's about?
 
Hmm, okay. Couldn't try it yet, still busy re-adding my bot after the remote update.
 
It's obviously in relation to #thedress.
 
9:06 PM
0
Q: Pentagonal numbers made from pentagonal numbers

AdnanIntroduction A pentagonal number (A000326) is generated by the formula Pn= 0.5×(3n3-n). Or you can just count the amount of dots used: You can use the formula, or the gif above to find the first few pentagonal numbers: 1, 5, 12, 22, 35, 51, 70, 92, 117, 145, 176, 210, 247, 287, 330, 376, 425...

 
@JAtkin Indeed, it doesn't appear to work, I get groovy.lang.GroovyRuntimeException: Could not find matching constructor for: com.ppcgse.koth.antichess.pieces.Rook()
 
Hi there
 
@AlexA. Touché.
 
@FlagAsSpam Except this time there really are two different versions and it isn't just an optical illusion
 
Can anybody say what does this phrase mean?
:their ability to stomach someone else's way
 
9:11 PM
@Markberg Translation: their ability to accept someone else's way
 
@Markberg It'd be better to ask on english.stackexchange.com
 
@Rainbolt Less "accept" and more "tolerate" or "put up with".
 
^
 
@El'endiaStarman What dictionary did you get that out of?
I was using Dictionary.com, which defines the verb as "to endure or tolerate (someone or something):"
omg
 
 
9:14 PM
Google says "Endure or accept". When I click on the link it says "Endure or tolerate"
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ ^
 
I was tricked
 
I've always thought of "to stomach something" as to tolerate something you find disgusting.
 
@Rainbolt Not so much "dictionary" as my general understanding of the word. Like AlexA says.
 
9:15 PM
@ProgramFOX Try this: keep the updated line I gave you and then add this constructor
public Field(Field other) {
pos = other.pos
piece = other.piece?.clone()
}
 
@TimmyD I bought my Samsung Galaxy Ace to replace a Dell Axim PDA, because there weren't any 4" tablets. I have feature phones (a Nokia 3310 and a cheap Samsung flip-phone) for actual calls and SMS.
 
@phase Wow, that's very cool.
 
Trying...
 
@JAtkin To make formatted text, make a new message that just has the code and hit CTRL+K, enter.
 
@FlagAsSpam Ok
 
9:16 PM
@JAtkin groovy.lang.GroovyRuntimeException: Could not find matching constructor for: com.ppcgse.koth.antichess.controller.Field(com.ppcgse.koth.antichess.controller.‌​Location)
 
Spotted: user named "Jakuje." @Jakube sock confirmed?!!?11one!!?
 
Weird. I will try this my self and let you know when I have a fix
 
@ProgramFOX Doesn't really work with the @ in it. ;)
 
@FlagAsSpam What? :P
 
@ProgramFOX I may've forgotten who that was directed at... >.> Sorry.
 
9:19 PM
oh lol
 
@El'endiaStarman @CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I don't know why I haven't just been linking this.
 
@Katenkyo Yeah, it's just called the crowd mentality, it's typically used as an explanation for human inaction against crimes in large groups.
 
@phase I'm honestly surprised that isn't a link to localhost.
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why no markdown images?!
 
9:27 PM
I wasn't asking for a link to localhost...
 
@AlexA. but I had an idea of linking images to localhost, but chat no suporto md images
 
What's a markdown image?
 
![title of image](link) which you can use to make image links [![title](image link)](link)
 
@ProgramFOX That should do it.
 
@phase Oh, gotcha. Yeah, minimarkdown (or whatever chat markdown is called) doesn't support that.
@ProgramFOX Hellooo
 
9:30 PM
@AlexA. stackdown(?)
 
WWE Stackdown
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Lightweight Championship, in this case?
 
That should be the name of the beta site Wrestling.SE.
 
20 bytes or less to enter
 
Either the power at my house is flickering or I keep blinking unexpectedly.
 
9:34 PM
@AlexA. Don't blink.
 
I just went to look up "don't blink" and I accidentally typed "dong".
Something has gone horribly wrong.
 
nightmare dong is coming
 
What in the hell
As in "don't blink" became just "dong"?
That's one heck of a misspelling
 
@MartinBüttner, your CJam thing for the pentagonal numbers is character for character what I was about to post
 
Says something about your Google search history ...
@PeterTaylor
 
9:37 PM
@AlexA. G is very close to T.
 
@PeterTaylor I just deleted it because I realised it's not clear whether it's asking for 10k pentagonal numbers as the potential summands or as the potential sum
 
@AlexA. Hellooo
@JAtkin Um, what exactly should do it?
 
"cannot be made from the first 10000 pentagonal numbers" looks pretty clear to me
 
oh right
 
I think it's a really bad restriction, but that's a separate issue
 
9:39 PM
undeleted
wait, but then the code is wrong
 
Ah, I just saw the new commit.
 
Ninja'd
 
My gifs always die... sigh
 
@PeterTaylor I think we need to check up to 577380 numbers for the sum then
 
@ProgramFOX I don't see you talk in here all that often. It's nice to overlap with you. :) How are things going?
 
9:42 PM
@MartinBüttner Yes.
 
testing my new code is gonna take a bit longer I suppose...
 
And then filter to just the first A4# before doing the ew
 
@AlexA. Fine, thanks for asking! It's winter break here now. How are you doing?
 
@ProgramFOX Things are going well for me. Enjoying not working today though I have to tomorrow. Are you a student?
 
9:44 PM
that's 29 bytes then
 
@AlexA. Yep, I'm a student in the Belgian equivalent of high school.
 
> There are no solutions for e.g. x = 3
 
@ProgramFOX High school? Wow! I figured you'd be older. You youngsters here are all so smart. :D
 
Bold assertion.
 
9:47 PM
(I say, being only 25 myself >_>)
Older than Doorknob, younger than Peter.
 
@TimmyD I've got proof
 
@AlexA. Get off my lawn!
 
@AlexA. HS Junior. c:
Also, I just updated my question - you do not have to simplify fractional output anymore.
 
@AlexA. "Proof by writing with the right hand and simultaneously wiping with the left."
 
@PeterTaylor I was just coming by to offer to mow your lawn and help you across the street
@flawr I've seen professors do that. It's horrifying.
 
9:51 PM
@JAtkin I've no idea what's happening but for whatever reason the debug feature recorded that my bot made this move as move 1: chosen move: Move(Piece(WHITE, PAWN, Loc(6, 3)), Loc(6, 3))
 
@TimmyD It's true, though.
 
@PeterTaylor @Adnan Being skeptical doesn't necessarily mean I don't believe. ;-)
 
@ProgramFOX Your pulling my leg. There is no way that is happening. I'm going to try that right now.
 

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