Coding

[Gordon Freeman]

All other music is in-game music. It makes me want to understand this.

[atomic7732]

What I ran overnight...



Now I'm trying it without coriolis as kip suggested to see if that has any affect on the corruption



compare with (from yesterday)



and a higher resolution:

[blotz]

:O

[vh]

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time = calendar.timegm(datetime.datetime(*[int(val) for val in re.split('-| |:',line[line.index("[") + 1:line.index("]")])]).utctimetuple())
this a beautiful one liner than turns a line like this:

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[2011-10-05 17:27:05] <matty406> screenies\n
into a timestamp like this:

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1317835625

[vh]

parses a eu4 save game into a csv file which i've imported into a sql database

(wars, sorted by largest number of boats destroyed)


(battles in which both sides had more than 50000 participants. note the 17th century battle)

[atomic7732]

I wrote a program to calculate the current time on Universalis...

Fiah and dar came up with year 984, but I'm not sure how. I got 988.

Here's the code: http://pastebin.com/KUeGYDZ1

Output for the value on line 2

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Universalis days: 245240.501362
Universalis years: 988.470426812
Base Universalis Time - 988-116, 15.70824
Calendaric Universalis Time - 988-107, 11.0399999997
Soleani Calendar - 988-2-25, 11.0399999997
Base Universalis Time is basically just the time i got by dividing 22.02 and 248.101, the exact hour and day values. This differs from the Calendaric Universalis Time (should it really differ by 9 days though?) because that is calculated as a calendar would calculate it out, in blocks of days per year, and not just a raw time value. The Soleani Calendar is a modified version of CUT which uses the method of dividing into months. At the moment, it does not have an offset, but it will be offset to whenever the nearest Universalis winter solstice is to January 1, 1399, 00:00 UTC, Earth time. For ease, I assumed it synced up exactly with midnight January 1.

I posted this so that, if I made a mistake, someone will be able to understand what went wrong.

[Darvince]

what did you define as 000-01-01 00:00:00? how about 1399-10-21 17:00:00 UTC+0 is 000-01-01 00:00:00?

[atomic7732]

0 hours is January 1, 1399, 00:00 UTC

[vh]

drag the ball.
(requires tkinter)

[atomic7732]

the ball is a slow pony

[vh]

well at least it works

[atomic7732]

I figured it out, who would have known .001 was one per thousand and not one per hundred...

that might account for the 9 day discrepancy.

I'll update the code when I get home to see if that's accurate and then maybe I can host a thing on my site showing Base Universalis Time for conversion and maybe people's calendars

[Darvince]

fixx pygwm

[atomic7732]

i can confirm that i messed up the calendar thing, but it is fixed now

so if people want to work on their calendars, and decide on a time for winter solstice of universalis, that would be helpful and then i can start working on a calendar/time conversion which i can put on my site

[vh]

so i'm coding an evolution simulator for trees and it's neat how every single possible bug gets exploited by the evolutioning.

for example, i made the cost of growing a branch proportional to its height off the ground -- this lead to the forest become a carpet of branches at y = 0

i implemented a variable in the genes that determined how much energy the offspring would start off with, but used a constant value for that instead. the trees exploited this by using 1 energy to create offspring with 10 energy

[Darvince]

for the first issue you could keep that feature but make the cost decrease from 0 to 5 then increase and never let it reach 0, also if a tree occupies the same space as another one the cost increases

[vh]

eh. i just made cost be proportional to 1 + height

then i removed the height term because i was trying to get taller trees to grow

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i don't need to to do the tree occupying the same space thing because i actually measure the amount of sunlight absorbed by each branch on a tree and if a branch is covered by another branch higher up it gets less energy (50% less for every additional overlap)

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i'm having problems with speciation -- all my trees have evolved to be tall, but theyre all exactly the same tallness

[Bla]

Maybe coding a giraffe could help?

[Darvince]

speciation only happens when a population is isolated from another or put under pressure by itself

[FiahOwl]

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[vh]

tfw doing data processing and there's an io bottleneck

[atomic7732]

A simple little program which can be used as a memory game for learning your own conlang (or any language really)

not full definitions, but simple vocab glossing



if people want to help add to files or use it, just ask

the way it works is the english will always show up and you have to type it in the conlang, so if you need to specify things, then you can do that

I still have to test to see if special characters work and such.

And actually, I'd like to try to put it on my website so that it's always there to use when you want. Although the personal version would allow you to dump vocab things you want to work on, on demand.

[vh]

a brute force solver for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Game

[vh]

i find this data structure useful because if your code crashes unexpectedly in the middle of processing a large amount of data, you don't have to redo everything

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import cPickle

class IOlist(list):
    def __init__(self, filename, sentinel):
        list.__init__(self)
        self.count = 0
        self.sentinel = sentinel
        self.filename = filename
    def add(self, elem):
        self.append(elem)
        self.count += 1
        if self.count >= self.sentinel:
            self.save()
    def save(self):
        self.count = 0
        with open(self.filename, 'wb') as ouf:
            cPickle.dump(list(self), ouf)
    def load(self):
        with open(self.filename, 'rb') as inf:
            self[:] = cPickle.load(inf)
       
it saves itself to a file every so often

[FiahOwl]

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[blotz]

it's time to up the byebla game
there's a 0.1% chance it'll break when starting up

oops quickly squashing a bugs

[vh]

python space program https://djungelorm.github.io/krpc/docs/tutorials/launch-into-orbit.html

[blotz]

ok its call blabotc cuz its so crude
my complex design is in the process of breaking

[Darvince]

kol

[vh]

you can't stop me!