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TheresaJayne posted:8 out of 10 cats is a comedy show, the actual show is called Countdown. code:
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Update on the Countdown cheat program: I implemented a cache of possible expression based on their operands, and culled that so only one expression per unique value was stored. I also moved the expressions from a vector to a custom class that stores the list in a member array, saving some time on allocations. All in all, I was able to get the run time down from "barely beating the countdown clock" to 25 milliseconds. This week, I've been working on reimplementing an old project of mine in C++11. This dates back to my days at uni, when the student paper published two solutions to a crossword puzzle; one correct one and one purporting the picture of physicist Richard Feynman was in fact one of pop sensation Michael Jackson, then solving the entire puzzle wrong based on this premise. This inspired me to write a program doing the same thing: given a crossword puzzle layout and some already filled in letters, fill the rest of the boxes with valid but arbitrary words. Back then I wrote it in Java, this time C++. Step one was to find all the word entries, each a list of coordinates into the grid. Then, using these entries, a recursive function fills in words and moves on, going until an entry has no valid possible words. There is still some work to do for certain edge cases, but the main premise works. I also added a function to render the solution to an svg image. Here's a sample output:  Generated in 1800 milliseconds.
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Sep 13, 2015 14:49
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Programmer Humor posted:Step one was to find all the word entries, each a list of coordinates into the grid. Then, using these entries, a recursive function fills in words and moves on, going until an entry has no valid possible words. There is still some work to do for certain edge cases, but the main premise works. Are you using some variation of a depth-first search? When you reach a dead end, do you back up one word, pick a new word for that spot, then carry on? Do you take letters that you know must be in place x, then select all words of the appropriate length matching those criteria? How do you track which words you've already tried? Do you allow the same word to appear multiple times in a single puzzle? Which dictionary or dictionaries do you use?
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Sep 13, 2015 20:16
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Centripetal Horse posted:Are you using some variation of a depth-first search? When you reach a dead end, do you back up one word, pick a new word for that spot, then carry on? Do you take letters that you know must be in place x, then select all words of the appropriate length matching those criteria? How do you track which words you've already tried? Do you allow the same word to appear multiple times in a single puzzle? Which dictionary or dictionaries do you use? Yes yes yes yes. I maintain a list of already used words, stored as their indices in the word list, so the same word can't be used twice. One problem is to pick which word to fill in next. At the moment I do the one with the least matches since I figured if I'm going to fail, I might just as well do it fast. The recursion also doesn't handle cases where the word dependency graph gets disjoint, so I might also have to figure out how to detect that to save doing a bunch of useless tests. Also I got lucky with the sample, sometimes it just churns on forever, depending on which words are randomly selected, so maybe I'll add some function that just gives up if a partial solution seems to be taking too long. The word list is public domain Moby Word Lists by Grady Ward, Gutenberg Etext #3201.
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Sep 13, 2015 21:09
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Just got done writing a couple of programs for a cryptography class. the first one is a simple frequency analyzer for substitution ciphers, and the second is a tool used to decrypt a Vigenere cipher with an unknown key length.  
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Sep 13, 2015 23:07
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Someone on Reddit asked for help with a CV problem: identify fuse colors for an aligned, lighting-constrained image. I threw together a tiny program which gives a probability distribution for the different colors (with an argmax at the end so the output was prettier). It was kinda' fun.   code:
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Sep 16, 2015 19:08
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So I'm 'releasing' my game next Thursday on itch.io so I decided I needed to spend some time making a stupid trailer for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5HSIGDc5pU
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Sep 19, 2015 02:10
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clockwork automaton posted:So I'm 'releasing' my game next Thursday on itch.io so I decided I needed to spend some time making a stupid trailer for it. This is amazing and you should be proud.
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Sep 19, 2015 03:00
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clockwork automaton posted:So I'm 'releasing' my game next Thursday on itch.io so I decided I needed to spend some time making a stupid trailer for it. Dang good job!
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Sep 19, 2015 04:03
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clockwork automaton posted:So I'm 'releasing' my game next Thursday on itch.io so I decided I needed to spend some time making a stupid trailer for it. Holy poo poo, pro click!
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Sep 19, 2015 16:54
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clockwork automaton posted:So I'm 'releasing' my game next Thursday on itch.io so I decided I needed to spend some time making a stupid trailer for it. Congratulations! Looks awesome.
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Sep 19, 2015 20:37
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Someone in this thread a while back made some really cool Lindenmayer System visualizations, and ever since I saw them I've spent a lot of my free time playing around with L-Systems and having a blast. So far I've had some neat things working with generating systems radially around a central point so I get a little fractal wheel type thing. Then I animate by adding some noise to the branching angles, point locations, color, etc. Here's a pretty basic one: http://gfycat.com/DarlingCheapAsiandamselfly Increased the number of systems as well as the amount of noise in the point locations: http://gfycat.com/WigglySerpentineChinchilla Pretty difficult to pick out the structures at this point but you can still see patterns in the motion: http://gfycat.com/CavernousUnluckyBird Trying to make the color a little more dynamic right now: http://gfycat.com/BossyWebbedIbisbill http://gfycat.com/MetallicFrailIchthyosaurs At this point I have an absolute shitload of free parameters, so I'm really tempted to implement something similar to Scott Draves' Electric Sheep and make a little web app where users vote on systems and a GA spits new ones out.
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Sep 21, 2015 00:13
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clockwork automaton posted:So I'm 'releasing' my game next Thursday on itch.io so I decided I needed to spend some time making a stupid trailer for it. Owns.
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Sep 21, 2015 16:23
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Something I've always been fascinated by and wanted to do since I was a child was make an OPL3 synthesis MIDI player in DOS. I've tried many things over the years, but only now do I feel like I have the knowledge I truly need to make a good one. To help me in developing it, I've made a tool that allows me to watch the state of the OPL3 registers that are emulated in DOSBox. Using this I'll be able to see how established software and games make use of the OPL3 synth and use that to help me design my own synth player. I would post a screenshot, but it's much more impressive to see (and hear!) it in action! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uHdUgkKxtM
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Sep 22, 2015 12:56
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Neurion: That's awesome! It makes me feel like a kid again  In my spare time for the last year or so (an evening a week) I've been working on a node- and timeline editor. It should eventually start rendering stuff but for now you can just connect and group nodes, animate properties and so on. Progress is slow, but steady! 
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Sep 22, 2015 19:44
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Dragola posted:Someone in this thread a while back made some really cool Lindenmayer System visualizations, and ever since I saw them I've spent a lot of my free time playing around with L-Systems and having a blast. Were they 2D? If they were, there's a good chance it was me. I love the drat things. In fact, I recently stuck some code up on Github, and made a few new gifs to share with the people who asked for the code.   If they were 3D, it definitely was not me. You mentioned points and fuzziness. Exactly what method are you using? Those words make me think of chaos game fractals.
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Sep 23, 2015 03:15
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Centripetal Horse posted:Were they 2D? If they were, there's a good chance it was me. I love the drat things. In fact, I recently stuck some code up on Github, and made a few new gifs to share with the people who asked for the code. If you rendered it breadth-first instead of depth-first it'd look more like a natural tree growing
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Sep 23, 2015 17:27
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Sagacity posted:Neurion: That's awesome! It makes me feel like a kid again Neat. What's the GUI toolkit you're using?
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Sep 24, 2015 05:02
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clockwork automaton posted:So I'm 'releasing' my game next Thursday on itch.io so I decided I needed to spend some time making a stupid trailer for it. By the way this is up for download now: http://lindseyb.github.io/CuppaTea/ - if you don't want to pay money for it PM me for a code.
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Sep 24, 2015 16:22
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Shinku ABOOKEN posted:Neat. What's the GUI toolkit you're using?
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Sep 24, 2015 16:51
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Also posted in the gamedev thread, but what the hell. Finally getting some real art together for Spartan Fist. Started with these concepts...  Then 3D artist produced these...   It'll look a bit more like this in-game, just the bones wouldn't be visible. Also, the lighting here is bad, I assume it's default Maya directional:  Next step is to pose a few 3D shots from the first-person perspective, to get an idea of how the fists will look close up. Since it's a first-person melee game, you'll spend a lot of time staring at the top of said fists, so we need to make sure the meshes look alright from that angle. It's coming together nicely so far, though.  Also, I think she looks a lot cooler without the helmet (this character being Emma Jones, again, now as an arena fighter). We'll end up with a lot of body parts, though, and the helmet will probably appear as part of a Commander Keen-esque enemy eventually.
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Sep 30, 2015 16:00
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 Just truckin' along on Roggle.
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Sep 30, 2015 16:01
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This is adorable and awesome.
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Oct 1, 2015 02:45
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DeathBySpoon posted:
How is this not getting more attention from you guys? This is awesome!
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Oct 1, 2015 02:59
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DeathBySpoon posted:
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Thanks! It's in Java with libgdx, so it'll run on anything. I'm mainly targeting desktop and Android, and hoping my code isn't too bloated for it to run in the browser too. I post about it pretty regularly in the roguelike thread. My goal is for it to be equally accessible with mouse, touch, keyboard, or controller. Too many roguelikes have indecipherable UIs, I wanted to make one anyone could play without sacrificing actual game depth.
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Oct 2, 2015 13:13
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I've been working my way through https://www.learnopengl.com's set of tutorials, and I finally got screen-space ambient occlusion working. At the moment, it's just the ambient map, but I'll be adding in lighting soon.
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Oct 11, 2015 18:08
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Cross-posting from the Ask/Tell Numerical/Statistical/Mathematical thread. Still working on my learning toolkit. I can reproduce some of the result from Hinton's group.  Still working on the reconstruction (outlier on the right), but if that gets fixed I'm going to start procedurally generating sprites and dialog for a game of some sort.
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Oct 13, 2015 00:09
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I made a thingy! It's to remind you to talk to your friends occasionally... not on fb https://diogenes.co
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Oct 21, 2015 06:18
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curuinor posted:I made a thingy! It's to remind you to talk to your friends occasionally... not on fb Some suggestions for you. First, there is no secure http connection on the site at all. You're passing login and tokens around without SSL. I mean, it's not the biggest site in the world, but you really should have a secure connection for at least handling usernames and passwords.  If you do something wrong on the form, the entire thing gets deleted and disappears. That's kinda lame. It should point out the validation error in the form rather than just reset the whole thing.  What's with the box at the bottom? code:
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Oct 21, 2015 20:49
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I finally put together a repo for a pair of projects I made using the Wikireader, a plastic widget for viewing an offline snapshot of Wikipedia which runs Forth. https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Wikireader-Adventures    
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Oct 24, 2015 01:16
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 Got a devlog going over at byob.
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Oct 24, 2015 17:40
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Let's convert .NET generics into C++ templates. 
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Oct 24, 2015 21:09
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Finally threw in some backdrops, and think I've figured out where the fists need to be situated to feel like they're attached to "you". Current feedback is that the fists are maybe too low-res, and we need to make some up-ressed versions for FPS view: One surprising result is that walking up close to the voxel terrain is actually kind of cool. It's like wandering through pixel art. It wouldn't work if the environments had pixel splotches of weird colors all over them, but Zach's been keeping them relatively "flat" for that reason: 
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Oct 24, 2015 21:46
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Drastic Actions posted:Some suggestions for you. First, there is no secure http connection on the site at all. You're passing login and tokens around without SSL. I mean, it's not the biggest site in the world, but you really should have a secure connection for at least handling usernames and passwords. I was shopping around for a real SSL token (digicert is apparently the standard but it costs waaaay too loving much) but for less than $100, found one so I'll go with it. Everything's http basic auth, I do agree that it's an inducement to get pwned The form deletion is definitely a thing, I'll fix that Drastic Actions posted:
It's a box! Yah, it's an extraneous box. Drastic Actions posted:
It's what is returning for some reason from flask's jsonify, which I thought was supposed to return a proper content-type... And it does return proper content-type on all the other requests, for some reason... 0_o
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Oct 24, 2015 22:57
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This just popped up, if you're willing to wait a few weeks: https://letsencrypt.org
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Oct 25, 2015 02:21
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NameCheap has SSL certificates for about $11/yr. It's just a Class 1 but it's a good way to get up and running.
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Oct 25, 2015 03:45
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You can get an SSL certificate for free from startssl.com.
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Oct 25, 2015 07:07
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biznatchio posted:You can get an SSL certificate for free from startssl.com.
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nuvan posted:This just popped up, if you're willing to wait a few weeks: This is beautiful, for the record. I love that they even threw in an auto-configure linux tool for nginx and apache.
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