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by salomon812 4y ago
> I'd expect a lot more differences, bordering on unintelligible, before I call it a dialect. I'm not sure if I could help you with examples since it's my father's tongue, not mind. But I assure you, he found it very
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by salomon812 4y ago
Absolutely not. If it was just an accent, I'd like back all those times my father couldn't help with my Spanish homework.
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by salomon812 4y ago
Northern New Mexico uses "vosotros." No one told us not to. (Or so I'm told, see my main comment.)
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by salomon812 4y ago
This is my family. Sadly, the language dies with my generation. My father speaks this dialect of Spanish... or at least, he used to. We moved to Northern California when I was very little. But, if we had stayed in New Mexico, my cousins don
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by salomon812 4y ago
I have a Python script, called t.py and a bash alias "t" that calls it. I use it for quick navigation in the terminal instead of "cd" and "pushd/popd". The basic format is: "t <shortcut" while
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by salomon812 4y ago
I've been here before. I did manage to get my PhD. It wasn't easy and I'm so happy the author is getting therapy because I needed it too. But I don't think the underlying cause is procrastination. At least it wasn't
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by salomon812 4y ago
I loved my differential equation course, and it was a community college course I took senior year of high school. One of the chapters in the book was using diff eqs to solve physical systems and it was an eye opening experience. For a hobby
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by salomon812 5y ago
Dyslexic programmer here! Here's some of my tips I use. ALWAYS ALWAYS close your parenthesis/brackets/quotes as soon as you open them then go back to write what's in them. So, if I write: func(arg), the keystrokes for me
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Give yourself full permission to interview your future managers back(twitter.com)
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World First Analog NFT(youtube.com)
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by salomon812 5y ago
Absolutely. True story: I was at a small startup and our company organically made it to Hacker New's front page. I was so excited. At that point, I was only a reader. I made an account, upvoted it, told our social media manager. Next t
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by salomon812 5y ago
No, I'm looping through all possible guess and targets and grouping possible targets by matching scoring. Then I select a guess on which one has the smallest set of possible words afterwards. For example, "SERAI" seems to be
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by salomon812 5y ago
Ah, apologizes, I missed your post. This analysis is awesome! I did a single look ahead, so it falls into the -OUCH zone and I have to burn some guesses. Doing the full search across all guesses is key. Well done!
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by salomon812 5y ago
Your solver is awesome! I'm really curious what the algorithm is find the 4 move play. Mine only optimizes for a single look-ahead.
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by salomon812 5y ago
So, there's another evil Wordle thread on Hacker News today ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29862597 ) and over there, I've been refining my algorith for optimal play. Here's the current approach:
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by salomon812 5y ago
Okay! It's been reworked with all of this new information, so it knows what words are possible. And I also had it output what it would consider to be the worst-case scoring and it matches the adversarial's scoring! Here's wha
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by salomon812 5y ago
So, my algorithm is deterministic because there isn't any random element in it. And then it appears the adversarial doesn't either because the game plays out the same way every time. So, to generate a single guess, the algorithm w
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by salomon812 5y ago
Good point! And it's clear to me that this isn't the dictionary I was using. I grabbed a random Scrabble dictionary online and filtered for length of five. I'll rework my code to take all this into account and we'll see
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by salomon812 5y ago
Okay, I ran it again with the squared term in the utility function. Here's what it did: L A R E S (0 green, 0 yellow, 576 words remain) T O N I C (1 green, 0 yellow, 50 words remain) B O O D Y (4 green, 0 yellow, 5 words
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by salomon812 5y ago
It's very possible we don't have the same dictionary! I have 8938 words. I confirmed that NARES, DOILY, and TOUCH are in my dictionary. My analysis shows that SERAI's worst-case is 461 words and NARES would have 578. I found
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by salomon812 5y ago
Wow! I really like your analysis! Yeah, I was trying to determine the utility function that would determine how to select words, but I'm more of a gut-feel, intuitive sort of person. I also tried a squared term like yours, but for some
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by salomon812 5y ago
This is great! A few days ago, I wrote a Wordle solver in C. It selects a word to minimize the number of words assuming the worst-case green/yellow. So, it sounds like these two are in direct conflict. My solver is deterministic, and i
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by salomon812 7y ago
When I go rock climbing, I don’t use ropes. It saves me time of having to set anchors. The git advice works for either experts or small projects. If you’re an expert, choose your own workflow. I find in large projects with many users, branc
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by salomon812 10y ago
I have a fair bit of Microchip experience, things to consider: - You must set the AD1PCFGH or ANSEL bits to enable ADC functionality on a pin. - There's nothing stopping you from accidentally configuring the pin as a digital output (it
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by salomon812 10y ago
I'll be using QBasic to teach my kids programming. They both got Raspberry Pis for Christmas, which I preloaded with DosBox. This was always Plan A, but this article made me stop looking for a Plan B: http://www.nicolasbize.