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Topic: Anybody Out There? |
gfoot
Replies: 22
Views: 26568
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Forum: Challenges Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 6:52 pm Subject: Anybody Out There? |
When you work out the answer, it'll be obvious what you need to submit. |
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Topic: Best algorithms? |
gfoot
Replies: 16
Views: 60813
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Forum: Runaway Robot Puzzle Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:59 am Subject: Best algorithms? |
Is that for all the levels, or just level 513? My final algorithm, implemented in Python, solved all the levels in under two seconds each, and took about a minute to solve them all in sequence (witho ... |
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Topic: Countdown Calc |
gfoot
Replies: 18
Views: 24781
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Forum: Challenges Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 11:45 pm Subject: Countdown Calc |
Wine is mostly a Win32 API implementation, so you only need it for things that use the Win32 API. Pure CIL assemblies that don't use Win32 APIs can be executed through native Linux mono. |
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Topic: Marking of solved/unsolved challenges |
gfoot
Replies: 4
Views: 18591
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Forum: General Puzzles Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:53 pm Subject: Marking of solved/unsolved challenges |
For me, it changes the colours when you hover over the dots, and doesn't put them back properly. |
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Topic: New levels: 1107 to 1206 |
gfoot
Replies: 9
Views: 33697
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Forum: Mortal Coil Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:50 pm Subject: New levels: 1107 to 1206 |
I'd be really interested to see what that level looks like - would it be OK to share it? |
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Topic: Berma calculation |
gfoot
Replies: 10
Views: 15607
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Forum: The Hacker's Server Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 12:17 am Subject: Berma calculation |
It depends whether "still one egg remaining" means there might be more than one. Either way, though, it's true that there's no single solution.
I suspect she was lying anyway - even the ... |
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Topic: Maeda Path? |
gfoot
Replies: 12
Views: 16745
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Forum: Challenges Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 10:05 pm Subject: Maeda Path? |
I think people have written high-level bots to play Guitar Hero, which monitor the video stream from the console and submit controller inputs. Proper bots.  |
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Topic: Huge differences between people's level. |
gfoot
Replies: 7
Views: 25723
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Forum: OneOfUs Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:06 pm Subject: Huge differences between people's level. |
The leaderboard says otherwise... |
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Topic: Help me find the love of my life... |
gfoot
Replies: 7
Views: 10649
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Forum: Challenges Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:35 pm Subject: Help me find the love of my life... |
She's also only 13. Whatever you had at that age was surely nothing special - there are plenty more fish in the sea. |
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Topic: Random Problem Challenge |
gfoot
Replies: 8
Views: 15245
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Forum: Challenges Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:16 pm Subject: Random Problem Challenge |
It's asking specifically for a value for 'randomNumber', which is declared as an int, so your answer has to be a valid int. I don't think 2147483647 will cause an exception, so no, that's not the ans ... |
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Topic: Deluge |
gfoot
Replies: 7
Views: 16659
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Forum: Challenges Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:37 am Subject: Deluge |
I think your assumptions are correct. I seem to remember it just says you failed to flood correctly even if the actual problem was an error, e.g. exceeding the cycle count. So if your algorithm does ... |
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Topic: Confused on what a challenge is asking? |
gfoot
Replies: 48
Views: 78083
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Forum: Challenges Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 9:49 pm Subject: Confused on what a challenge is asking? |
There should be no doubt about the right answer for Anybody Out There - if you work out what the numbers mean then it will be obvious. |
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Topic: Challenge 'Didactic Bytes' |
gfoot
Replies: 2
Views: 7826
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Forum: Challenges Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 2:34 am Subject: Challenge 'Didactic Bytes' |
Your calculation is wrong. Convert the answer you got back again and see where it fails to match up. |
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Topic: Suggestion: randomized starting positions |
gfoot
Replies: 5
Views: 24403
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Forum: Wormageddon Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 2:17 am Subject: Suggestion: randomized starting positions |
I got the impression that one of the players has an advantage (one starts closer to the centre). Is that right? |
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Topic: Growing Bacteria |
gfoot
Replies: 39
Views: 48935
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Forum: Challenges Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 2:09 am Subject: Growing Bacteria |
It is related, but discussion of exactly how should probably go in the "solved" forum... |
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