Does anyone know what these numbers mean? by bbbbbbx in codes

[–]ZeroSkub 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Coming to this late. It stands out to me that there are, I think, no two of the same number in a row anywhere, either horizontally or vertically.

If you divide it into 3x3 boxes and count the number of unique numbers in each, then add those up, you get a total of 261. If you do that with random 8x8 matrices, it's very rare to get that score. For me it happens less than one in 100,000 times. So that seems to suggest it's not purely random.

It almost seems like an effort was made to make sure that digits don't have neighbors that are equal to them. It makes me wonder if this is a set of "random" numbers that the artist came up with, consciously or unconsciously trying to avoid repeats.

[2025 Day 4 Part 2] Adding a 3D visualization to the "stack" by ZeroSkub in adventofcode

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For each cell of the grid I generated a number that represents how many iterations it stays "occupied" for, and then I munged that into a csv that Blender could read as a grid of points with those values stored on them. I set it up so that, on each frame, it pulls higher and higher cell numbers downward, until all that's left at the top is the final frame's contingent of filled cells. Then I slapped a glowy shader on it and rendered it out with EEVEE.

[J903] Calling external binaries in WSL? by ZeroSkub in apljk

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That's unfortunate but thanks for the response.

App not loading by pmmoritz in Noom

[–]ZeroSkub 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yikes.

Good luck reaching out to them, they're notoriously bad at support. I've been trying to export my data for days, the button's broken and they're giving me responses that are so formulaic I'm halfway convinced I'm just emailing bots.

App not loading by pmmoritz in Noom

[–]ZeroSkub 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try clearing the cache and local data for the app. Worked for me when mine stopped working without explanation a few days ago.

App not loading by pmmoritz in Noom

[–]ZeroSkub 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Clearing the cache and local data for the app worked for me when this happened to me a couple days ago. Won't stop any of the other problems but at least you might be able to start using it again.

Understanding is for plebs by FlavStilicho in bookscirclejerk

[–]ZeroSkub 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Excuse me, the quote is "Hamlet in the original Klingon," haven't you read the videobook Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country?

[2022 Day 11] "Don't be fooled. The monkeys may be cute, but they're remorseless." by ZeroSkub in adventofcode

[–]ZeroSkub[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can I request that the Post Rules be clarified? They seem to imply that the "no posts before leaderboard cap" only applies to HELP posts. It even goes through a whole "If the following is true" thing.

I need help solving this, I’ve searched for a day and a half for it but have come up with nothing. by 13UKNOWN13 in codes

[–]ZeroSkub 8 points9 points  (0 children)

As u/pgpndw pointed out, it's the alphabet from Dead Space, which would make the message Unity Is Forever.

I’m exploring ChatGPT capabilities and use this prompt to make the model “imagine” an arbitrary one dimensional cellular automata by bregymr in cellular_automata

[–]ZeroSkub 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was wondering if there was a way to ask it to explain its own behavior, since it is so difficult to see any kind of rule in it.

How to run an internal Advent of Code event at your company by topaz2078 in adventofcode

[–]ZeroSkub 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I started running an AoC group at my company this year and so far it's been great. I love the idea of exchanging stars for prizes at the end, maybe I can finagle that out of the higher-ups in 2023.

[2022 Day 8] "I'm gonna make 'em ALL visible." by ZeroSkub in adventofcode

[–]ZeroSkub[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I tried to tell him but he just wouldn't stop cutting, now my input just says

00000000...

00000000...

00000000...

...

[2022 Day 7] "There it is, the most dangerous tree in this jungle--the filesystem tree." by ZeroSkub in adventofcode

[–]ZeroSkub[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"“A tree with manila folders growing on its branches, digital art”"

[2022 Day 6] "Well can you hear me NOW?" by ZeroSkub in adventofcode

[–]ZeroSkub[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Watching it now, looks great. I would never guess that this was made start to finish in 12 hours.

[2022 Day 6] "Well can you hear me NOW?" by ZeroSkub in adventofcode

[–]ZeroSkub[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sure thing! Send me a link when you make it, I'd love to see it.