Arcorann

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by Arcorann 3mo ago
My first solution was RNG(hash(seed.toString() + string)), which would get rid of the correlation while still being deterministic based on the seed. It's also more robust than calling RNG 10 times since if you use the same algorithm to
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by Arcorann 4mo ago
Fun game overall, took a little over 2 hours to beat. Some notes: - I found the decade theming of the packs a nice touch. - I'm mildly curious as to the maximum difficulty of the math problems. - I did find the combat a little frustrat
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by Arcorann 4mo ago
Don't forget Wikisource! https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page
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by Arcorann 10mo ago
The 500 edits required for access to TWL is actually for all of the sites under the Wikimedia banner. If you're having trouble finding things to edit on Wikipedia, you can try their other sites such as Wikisource or Wikibooks. On Wikis
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by Arcorann 1y ago
The conclusion is basically (Larry) Niven's Law of Time Travel. From "The Theory and Practice of Time Travel" (1971): > If the universe of discourse permits the possibility of time travel and of changing the past, then no
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by Arcorann 1y ago
Somewhat related is the work done in "Falling with Style: Factoring up to 255 “with” a Quantum Computer" published in the proceedings of SIGBOVIK 2025 [1]. The author, Craig Gidney [2], successfully factored all odd composite numb
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by Arcorann 1y ago
A while back I came up with the idea to carve out 4096 code points in plane 14 (Supplementary Special-purpose Plane) for super-surrogates, and use three such surrogates (1 initial, 2 extension) for codepoints beginning from U+110000. If don
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by Arcorann 1y ago
Having come across the connection from somewhere else entirely, I found it a very curious rabbit hole. I saw recently a website that attempts to summarise the whole thing (not quite complete) [1], with a section on St. Bride's. Then th
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by Arcorann 1y ago
RFC 2550 to the rescue: handling the transition from A99999 to B100000, or even from Z999999999999999999999999999999 to ^A1000000000000000000000000000000 will be a piece of cake.
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by Arcorann 1y ago
Neat. However, I noticed that the page description reads "No stress, memory-optimized 3D Tetris variant.", but I can't figure out what's supposed to be 3D about it.
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by Arcorann 1y ago
MAX_SAFE_INTEGER = 2^53 - 1 = 9007199254740991. The next integer 2^53 is representable, while the following one 2^53 + 1 isn't. 2^53 + 1 milliseconds = 9007199254740993 milliseconds = 104249991 days 8 hours 59 minutes 0.993 seconds. Si
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by Arcorann 1y ago
Have you looked at TGM4, which released on Steam last week? [0] I'd be interested to see your thoughts on it. Also would like to note that, at least for TGM1, 2 and 3, the PRNG used is a 32-bit LCG (the common C one, in fact). [0] htt
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by Arcorann 1y ago
In a similar vein, there is Wikisource.[0] Wikisource has the advantage of allowing for extensive formatting to closely match the source works due to its wiki-based format, but doesn't have quite as robust processes. Its flexibility is
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by Arcorann 2y ago
If you check the section "Extensions of the standard dictionary numbers" on the page you linked, there's a system for naming arbitrarily large numbers as -illions. The prime here is approx. 8.82 * 10^41024319, and 10^41024319
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by Arcorann 2y ago
> I also read that starting with Aldous Broder and then switching to Wilson's Algorithm (reasoning: Aldous Broder is slow at the end, Wilson's Algorithm is slow at the start) is faster than either. However, I haven't seen
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by Arcorann 3y ago
Funnily enough, there was a short story about the killion published in the New Yorker in 1982: "The killion, as every mathematician knows, is a number so big it can kill you." [1] [1] https://www.newyorker.com/maga
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by Arcorann 3y ago
RIF dev just posted an official update on the changes: https://old.reddit.com/r/redditisfun/comments/13wxepd/rif_de... As the URL suggests, at this pricing RIF will simply die.
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by Arcorann 4y ago
This reminds me of an old Roald Dahl story, "The Great Automatic Grammatizator". A man creates an electric computer that can write short stories in a few minutes (this being written in 1953, when electric computers were just becom
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by Arcorann 4y ago
You might be thinking of "Cat Pictures Please" by Naomi Kritzer, which can be found online at Clarkesworld: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_01_15/
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by Arcorann 4y ago
I once read a story in which a human gave an extraterrestrial visitor a calendar to examine and they were confused as to all the inconsistency. I then wondered how they would react if we gave them a Malaysian wall calendar instead: - Four c
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by Arcorann 4y ago
There are other wiki farms that are good if one wants to avoid Wikia's crap. I usually recommend Miraheze [1], which is MediaWiki-based, not-for-profit and ad-free (they run on donations). [1] https://miraheze.org/
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by Arcorann 4y ago
Wikia/Fandom has a history of refusing to delete wikis where the community has agreed to migrate (such as when many wikis left after the forced skin change in 2010), leaving a stale copy with better SEO. I don't know whether they
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by Arcorann 4y ago
Something I notice in the Kodak calendars image: rather than having extra days, the 1928 calendar simply has 364 days, but the 1989 calendar has an extra week in the last period. Did they ever explain the rule for adding an extra week?
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by Arcorann 4y ago
The original version of the post [1] cited the article "Real programmers Don't Use PASCAL" by name. For some reason it disappeared in the later versions. [1] https://cboh.org/mel.txt
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by Arcorann 4y ago
In the original version of the metric system, the base unit of mass was the grave, corresponding to the kilogram. 1/1000 of a grave was a gravet.
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by Arcorann 4y ago
Everyone always mentions "The Library of Babel"; considerably fewer bring up the work that inspired it, "The Universal Library" (Die Universalbibliothek) by Kurd Lasswitz [1], which places its treatment of a library cont
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by Arcorann 4y ago
Of course, if one were to switch measurements for that reason it'd be better to use the Japanese shaku [1], which at 30.303 cm is closer to a light-nanosecond than a foot. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese
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by Arcorann 4y ago
Thread from 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31679007 For some reason the blog post mentions the 31.4T record and the 62.8T record, but not the 50T record [1]. Weird. [1] https://blog.timothymulli
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by Arcorann 4y ago
qntm, creator of Hatetris [1], once did an analysis of this exact problem using brute force methods. While he managed to solve the problem for 4, 6 and 8 wide boards (including the minimum board height required, assuming game over if any pa
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by Arcorann 4y ago
Posted three days ago, funnily enough: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30820685 I've never had much faith in 2000s-era Twin Galaxies scorekeeping, ever since I saw their recorded scores for Pokemon Pinball in the

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