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Oof, yeah, those are terrible, sorry. Humans can't count-on-sight piles greater than 5 or 6, in general. This means the digits for 7-9 are very difficult to tell apart from each other. This is why roman numerals have a special form for 5/50/500, rather than just using IIIIIII (which I'm certain you ...

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Ah, ninja'd.

Yeah, looking at a few values does not disprove anything. What you have so far is not remotely a disproof, it's an observation that this particular pattern generates "big Cs" more often than other patterns of similar complexity.

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however with 1 +(9^n-1) = 9^n, 9^n-1 is divisible by 8, and 9^n is just 3, which means for any integer value of n 1 or more will result in 9^n /rad(2*3*(9^n-1)/8) which means the power can be as high as 1.026 approximately before it's larger. You need to go into this more. What precisely do you thi...

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↶ Using do notation should just be the obvious "three lines, each pulling the value out of a deeper monad" thing: That's what you'd think at first, yes. But GHC will immediately complain that it can't match [] with IO . And then you realize (>>=) (and related combinators) work with m a ->...

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Please state this in a way that's actually comprehensible.

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Yo, it goes great for me, and I don't rely on the board to tell me anything, I just check the ~10 boards I actually read roughly daily. ^_^

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That's what fire is for.

(I've never even reached the flagship on hard, let alone beat it.)

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Can't be done without CSS. Can be done quite easily with, and you can just write it inline: <!DOCTYPE html> <svg> <defs><rect id=foo width=100 height=100 fill="var(--color, red)" /></defs> <use href="#foo" style="--color: green"/> </svg>

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Ah, indeed! I hadn't quite fully gathered the recursive nature there. So you're expressing a number solely by using the nth-prime() function, multiplication, and the number 1. For compactness, nth-prime(arg) is instead written as <arg>, multiplication is implicit from concatenation, and 1 can be omi...

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THREAD HIJACK ↶ Which, to be fair, is because the transporters never made sense with the rest of the technology anyway and were shoved in for filming convenience in the original series with the explanation following. They and the replicators are both limited to doing the one job they're assigned, de...

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Using do notation should just be the obvious "three lines, each pulling the value out of a deeper monad" thing: do files <- listDirectory dir file <- files contents <- readFile file doStuffWithContents contents And yeah, to tell IO to close the file you force strictness. Pulling some examp...

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↶ If you can decompress/unpause the thing back into a person with full value, why would it have any less value as a person when paused? There is an argument to be made that only the *last* remaining copy has value; up to that point, undo operations are possible... after that point it is a murder. Y...

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Yeah, ultimately, posts that are just links to something else, with no commentary or discussion, are more or less verboten here. At minimum, they're considered quite rude. Like, thanks for letting us know, cool, but this board isn't an RSS reader; if we care about updates to your blog we'll follow i...

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ahahahaha

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First, neat picture! It's always cool to see the kind of emergent patterns that come out of simple rules like this. Second, the few numbers you provided give *no* clue as to the pattern you're following. I had to puzzle thru your Python to figure it out instead. From what I can tell, the pattern is:...

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Nah, a good part of this is definitely arguments from incredulity. You don't believe that consciousness can be embodied in "unlikely" mediums (repeatedly calling the idea "patently absurd"), like a Turing machine. Several of your later "refutations" hinge on this basic ...

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Dont' worry, you've just plumbing a deep well of philosophers thinking "well, my brain works like this, so clearly everyone else's does too, so here are some Deep Truths".

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Okay, so I got to stage 23... and I'm also stumped. I can get the upper two cubes into the water to form bridges, and I can get all the lower cubes up to it, and I can't figure out what's up from there.

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Yup, that's all this is - a generalization of the polygonal number sequences to allow for 0 and negative sides.

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I mean, ultimately the problem is that mathematicians are allergic to good variable naming. Using single-letter variable names for anything other than a transient temporary variable used in a rote, expected position (loop iteration, or the sole argument to a small lambda) is considered extremely bad...

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There's no way to do it by just having a planet in orbit. Assuming noon = solar noon, sunrise and sunset are approximately equal distance from noon, by definition. The only way to get them different is to shift the legal definition of "noon" to be not solar noon. You could fiddle with it *...

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Ah, you didn't list "can't degrade" in your first setup of the problem, so when you mentioned it later I thought you were just inaccurately glossing your previous constraints. So yeah, we're in intensely magical territory here, with a hyper-intelligence watching every mutation and modeling...

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Any tracking over multiple generations has to take into account the changing environment the genes find themselves in, which greatly complicates the idea of a stable "fitness" score you can assign cross-generationally. So it's not unreasonable to take the simple route and classify it in a ...

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"Can't die" and "can't become cancer" do not combine into "all mutations are positive". Most mutations are negative, and even if they're somehow magically prevented from killing the cell, they can still disable it or otherwise make it work badly in various ways. So you'...

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The concept of a "far-future dragon society" apparently being a *thing* that a lot of people make variants of is clearly some norm from a community I've never touched on, so I'll leave that weirdness at arms-length. ^_^ Just some random bits, which are mostly me disagreeing with your moral...

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But a football cannon *could* launch it that far in a vacuum, theoretically. (Well, assuming that the football can stand up to the acceleration of the cannon. But imagine an arbitrarily-long football-railgun that can bring it to the desired velocity at an appropriately low acceleration.) But when yo...

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Note that you *can* retrieve all the Symbols attached to an object ; they're not "hidden" in any way whatsoever, they're just guaranteed to never collide with anything else unless you specifically use the same Symbol object. So if you really do have some private data to associate, you can'...

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Agreed, blank lines separating out sections is great.

Alternately and often better: separate into pieces, then factor those pieces out into separate functions.

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Heimhenge wrote:↶
It would be cool (no pun intended) if that temperature came out to 2.6 kelvin.

There's nothing special about the CMBR temperature; it's just how cool the CMBR happens to be at our current time. It was hotter in the past, it'll be cooler in the future.

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Oh, good point! In that case, 3119 1908 3927, with my stops generally being from California.

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First, I respect your opinion, because we all experience games differently and have different opinions about them, and that's all valid.

Second, I'LL FITE U

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You can discuss whatever you want, man. Nobody's stopping you.

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Yes, if you can establish that the "P" set is definitely a proper subset of the "NP" set (or, conversely, that they're the same set), then you've solved the problem.

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What "really long statement"?

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Yes, P by definition is a subset of NP; everything in NP is definitely in P. It's just that "subset" might mean "same set".

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Nah, your second definition is fine afaict. Only correction: For this discussion, "too much" means that if the original TM always runs in polytime, then the resulting TM will always run in polytime as well. This definition doesn't require the original TM to run in polytime, just that when ...

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Or just move some of the videos to a temporary location on another computer, then requisition a larger hard drive (or a better archiving scheme that doesn't rely on a whole bunch of large files all living on a single computer). Problem solved, both in the moment and longer term.

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Wow this OP started interesting and then went off the rails surprisingly fast. Everything from numerology to patriarchy to messages from aliens, wowsers. ↶ If you think I'm wrong, the universe is right there, mathematics is right there, prove it chumps. ↶ The experimentally determined value of the f...

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You get its integral. ^_^ I can highly recommend 3Blue1Brown's Essence of Calculus series . Each video is short and approachable, and the whole series is only about 4 hours total. It'll give you a really nice intuitive appreciation of what calculus is, what it does, and how and why it's used. (Try t...

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Oh duh, yeah, sorry, was assuming that the output was the state. If the output is trimmed from the state, you can def have repeated outputs that still have unique state and thus different successors.

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