I can't take any credit; that was MPA and I think he had at least one forgotten-by-me accomplice. |
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13064. William (72.sub-70-198-193.myvzw.com) –
24 May 2015 14:34:14
[ CSD Logo, part II ]
Witness the power of the grass roots effort! |
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Hello! This is the only way I saw that I could get in touch with you. I am trying to unlock a font but I don't have a windows system. If I sent you the file could you convert it for me?! I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IT! dhendric25@gmail.com |
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Great work Tom. Somebody had to do it - glad it was you :D |
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What can I do about these mushrooms growing around my shower and mold in my closets |
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Ha, sure. I thought it went really well this year. There were about ~200 people in attendance this year, and ~10 talks. Nothing went on too long, a problem we've had in the past. I did emcee again. Here was my intro talk:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/talks/intro2015.swf
I'm always happy to emcee, though I'm hopeful that some young ones will take over for continuity's sake!
The idea about parallel tracks was basically a joke, though there was a talk by some of the organizers that briefly simulated what some of these would be like, which was pretty good. |
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Could you maybe tell us a bit more about what the SIGBOVIK conference was like? Were you emceeing? Were the plans about parallel talks in the same room or whatever it was successful? |
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13056. Tom 7 (74.125.59.145) –
01 May 2015 13:44:51
[ SIGBOVIK eve ]
Ha ha, good. :) Thanks for reading! |
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13055. jonas (84.0.94.103) –
01 May 2015 10:22:52
[ SIGBOVIK eve ]
Whew. And I approve of the back-dating.
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13054. Tom 7 (173.75.25.122) –
01 May 2015 09:22:20
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Thanks for the reminder! I actually forgot because I thought I had already posted this month, so now we have our first cheated back-date! |
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13053. jonas (84.0.94.103) –
01 May 2015 09:02:06
[ SIGBOVIK eve ]
Okay, now I'm worried. Are you all right, Tom?
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13052. jonas (84.0.94.103) –
01 May 2015 06:47:29
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Quick, if you're in the right timezone, you can still post in April!
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интернет казино играть на фани еще игровые автоматы бесплатно гейминаторы! |
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Thanks for the criticism. The first chorus is deliberately airy and muted to draw a contrast with the second half, but maybe I overdid it (I tend to). |
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13048. Tom 7 (72.14.225.65) –
08 Apr 2015 14:25:30
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The website (tom7.org/portmantout/) has a link to the source. Will probably need some minor modifications to get it to build in something other than mingw-x64 on windows.
Aside from the heuristics (choose long suffixes first) and opportunistic improvements (remove words that are incidentally covered), there isn't really any attempt to optimize. It's a good problem (though I'm pretty sure NP-hard). For the video, I ran it in parallel a few hundred thousand times (some parts are arbitrary so I choose randomly) and just saved the smallest one. |
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13047. Philip N (73.184.21.171) –
08 Apr 2015 00:44:07
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Nice video! Do you have a source release for that program, or do I have to make it myself? *runs* How does one optimize the output anyways? Obviously, one of the least efficient outputs would be to go in dictionary order and use that chart to link all words by just taking the last letter and going to the start letter of the next word in the dictionary. |
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I like it!
Some comments:
Around 1:13, the rhythm guitar doesn't resonate enough for my liking. It feels there is not enough background resonance in this section. A good way to make this better would to be add a bass part to it. The lyrics remind me of something out of a Jonathan Coulton track. Wacky and fun, just the way I like it. I love the coda (starts 4:12), and I think that could use some expansion. Heck, I'd listen to a whole track based on that coda. |
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13043. Tom 7 (173.75.25.122) –
01 Apr 2015 10:30:17
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Good ideas, though I guess I should also add that it needs to fit in carry-on luggage and be TSA approved! Then again, how could the Statue of Liberty not be TSA-approved? |
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13041. VoxAudi (69.10.219.128) –
31 Mar 2015 23:24:46
[ SIGBOVIK eve ]
Run dressed as the Statue of Liberty. Or the Eiffel Tower? |
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And... Mentioning the level editor, I have found a bug.
I've tried creating a level and so I resized it and made it a 5x5. It has a tick mark meaning it's been solved, but the level is unsolvable. I've tried uploading it, but whenever I hit "upload" the box just vanishes and does not confirm it. I'm guessing it's the bookmark, but the bookmark doesn't even touch the Exit Door. |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD6ZTTpCU9o&feature=youtu.be |
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^SCRATCH THAT!^
Fixed that, now I get a numworking > 0 error.
I know this means I am not running with "helpers". What are those, and how do I run them? |
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I apologize for the bother. I am new to this, and I reall don't know where the config.txt file is. I searched it, and I got a bunch of .cc files, as well as one .h file. I'm a noob at this, so help would be appreciates, thanks! |
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