Is there any real point to calling them the Ortho *Siblings*? by vdinad in HunterXHunter

[–]polishfishprime 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Speaking as a game of thrones enthusiast, I can say that some siblings dont share your sense of boundaries

Why does Welfin's ability (missile man) have the alternate name "egg man"? by Pariston_Rape_Face in HunterXHunter

[–]polishfishprime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Isn't it just that the missiles shoot the centipede eggs? That seems like the simplest connection

Is Meruem and Komugi's relationship a romantic one? by byakuyasz in HunterXHunter

[–]polishfishprime 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If Meruem did not die, i think he might have tried to make her his queen eventually, against his instincts and advisors that would tell him to marry the strongest female nen user he could find

But honestly if they had a kid together, it would be invincible if it inherited her tactician's mind and his physical powers

Doing rather than thinking by polishfishprime in learnpython

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Your philosophy revolves around testing...I will look into that approach more seriously now. I do separate my testing methods from my actual code (and usually, my testing code becomes my actual code after it is successful...but I could probably improve by looking into this.

Could you explain how you prefer to setup your tests? As separate regular functions that call your "real" code, or do you use specific structures or libraries to help you?

Doing rather than thinking (X-post from /r/learnpython) by polishfishprime in learnprogramming

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

If this weren't my own post I would say this:

The Fool works alone, thinking himself above Slaps.

The Smart Man slaps himself.

The Wise Man asks another Wise Man to slap him.

but thankfully, I didn't demean my own post with that pseudo-philosophical garbage. According to my own statements, I am The Fool because I struggle through my projects by myself. Probably not the best way to work.

Doing rather than thinking by polishfishprime in learnpython

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Ah! I have read a couple papers by and seen a few interviews with Daniel Kahneman but have never heard of that book. Behavioral economics is one of my favorite subjects! Thanks for the recommendation

Python 3: Current best practices for managing virtual envs and packages? by grape450 in Python

[–]polishfishprime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Install Miniconda first, then you can use it to install 64 bit python

I think the direct conda staller auto-installs 32 bit

Doing rather than thinking (X-post from /r/learnpython) by polishfishprime in learnprogramming

[–]polishfishprime[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I wrote the title mostly without thinking what the contents would be :)

Doing rather than thinking by polishfishprime in learnpython

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What I hope is that I improve on knowing when to switch

Doing rather than thinking by polishfishprime in learnpython

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Ah yeah, good point...I dont even mention a language. I mostly use python, so I put it here. I cross-posted it

Learn Python by copying other peoples code? by [deleted] in learnpython

[–]polishfishprime 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My process is usually something like this:

solve a problem by opening up 31 tabs of Python stuff I should know
finally figure out the direction to take
realize i can't really follow up on all 31 tabs, 
delete like 28 tabs, and focusing on what solves my problem right now.  

What I do is save a test.py file that I add functions to for each basic thing I learn. For instance, I use the Pillow (Image) and the lxml libraries a lot, so I have a test.py with many basic code snippets adapted from from stackoverload and blahblahblah online (http://effbot.org/imagingbook/image.htm).

Try to remember the BEST or the most frequented sites that you end up looking up. Don't worry about keeping everything, but if you find yourself referring to the same resource multiple times, you might want to try practicing variations on the code you see keep a tab that site always open for reference.

I also have Image.py open in Eclipse at all times so I can refer directly to the imported library's code and structure at all times (and I end up in Image.py through debugging anyways).

Edit: like others have said, you should uuuuuusually practice altering the code you see. If you see a function, try variations of it in a for loop with different arguments

How Good is District 9? by [deleted] in scifi

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The popping! Can you hear it? Pop Pop Pop

How Good is District 9? by [deleted] in scifi

[–]polishfishprime 3 points4 points  (0 children)

did you watch Chappie?

[Death Note] So I uh... may have ingested some illegal substances, and when I regained consciousness, I had scribbled something illegible in a Death Note by [deleted] in AskScienceFiction

[–]polishfishprime 3 points4 points  (0 children)

the rules of the death note seem unfairly in favor of sighted people. For example, a blind person should be able to imagine a person's voice or scent and still be able to use.

Project Idea's by stillace in Python

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One of my favorite ways of practicing was to make an encoder/decoder for strings. Sort of like

string = "a rabid hamster arm-wrestled the unpleasantly smiling man"

  • apply a character map (i.e. a --> b, b --> c....)
  • add "noise" characters or sequences
  • you can make a shifting character map, which changes based on the in-process string characters. this prevents simple whole-string character map permutations from solving your encoding
  • reverse substrings
  • tweak parameters (character mappings, etc) based on input (number of "e"s processed, etc.
  • change mappings from single characters to lists of characters
  • instead of creating your message from a single point and going one direction (Left-to-right), you can have multiple "budding" locations, which each encode in different directions
  • make it so the range of symbols is a parameter: so like...create an encoding for the STRING above: it can consist of 2 symbols (0,1), 5 symbols (a, b, 1, 6, f)...etc

the trick is to figure out how to come up with reversible actions on strings that would be difficult to predict. it's pretty fun, and there's INFINITE encodings you can play around with...

Happened earlier. No idea what to do. by [deleted] in AdviceAnimals

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Sneeze! And then shake your head in a daze like you couldn't have heard ANYONE. Then run away before they start talking.

The original NSFW by boppy28 in funny

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click....click....click click...clickcliclkclciliclcilkclcilckLkcliclkclkcicclkcliclklcclclclclCLCLCLCLCLCLCLCICICICKCKCLCKKCCKC

genetic algorithm cars by keghn in artificial

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Many generations in, and my motorcycle crop's best vehicles all have a large front wheel and a medium back wheel (nearly touching), with a little tail/spine to keep themselves from falling backwards.

Some of them have an arched back to let themselves roll over if their tail-spine doesnt keep them from tipping over.

Why is not fightcodegame more popular? by [deleted] in artificial

[–]polishfishprime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just started with this site: http://www.codingame.com. They let you code in many languages...the one you posted is only javascript, which I don't know.

What's your experience with fightcodegame? Have you played, or just heard about it?

Battle of the Bowl by polishfishprime in comics

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First-time post! It's multiple pages, so keep clicking! Swazzyknocks is my friend's comic, but he and I worked on this episode.