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Comment on Karaoke headphones by Flick

Flick — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:29:20 +0000

Karaoke headphones exist?! Wow… time for Google (and to save up money!)

Comment on About by Flick

Flick — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:27:43 +0000

When I saw the link to ‘Rocket Launcher’ I really really had to laugh! Soldier was my most favourite class in TFC followed by Engineer (clearly I was rubbish at the game) but I haven’t played it for months now despite being quite obsessed with it at one point. Still miss that game a lot.

Comment on Bit-parallel finite field multiplier design (Part 1) by Silician Sketchbook » Bit-parallel finite field multiplier design (Part 2)

Silician Sketchbook » Bit-parallel finite field multiplier design (Part 2) — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:09:14 +0000

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Comment on Reed-Solomon for noobs by Silician Sketchbook » Bit-parallel finite field multiplier design (Part 1)

Silician Sketchbook » Bit-parallel finite field multiplier design (Part 1) — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:15:12 +0000

[...] for various reasons, it turns out that I don’t really need Reed-Solomon codes for what I’ll be doing, but I still have more than a passing interest in the decoding side of [...]

Comment on Pushing buttons by Jason

Jason — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:47:59 +0000

I feel the same compulsion to use as much of my bandwidth as possible towards the end of the month. Thanks for the stress testing, it’ll serve as a reference for me now.

Comment on A request for hints by introspect

introspect — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:52:04 +0000

Ah, the fractal. I actually didn’t solve this one, but rather guessed the right answer just by reading the hints thread for that puzzle, because a certain number comes up multiple times along with some mention that the number is significant. I just searched for the significance of that number and got the answer.

But the “right” way is to generate the fractal image using the parameters given to you, and then look for any differences. Once you have a list of differences, consider the length and then look at what you did with the length of a list in the level you just solved.

Comment on A request for hints by Wax

Wax — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:58:33 +0000

Got it !

Now i’m stuck with a fractal

Comment on A request for hints by introspect

introspect — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:25:55 +0000

Yep, those are the dimensions of the image, but you’re over-thinking things a bit. Don’t treat the floating point numbers as integers - that part in the forums is misleading. Treat them as floats, one float per pixel, so you won’t have an ‘RGB’ mode image, but an ‘L’ mode image. How you decide which of the primes is the width and which is the height, and how you convert floating point to integers to get those pixel values, I’ll have to leave up to you. Can’t give away the whole thing

I should note that you’re not out of the woods yet - the forums had a lot of talk about a formula, which you will “see” once you get the image right.

Comment on A request for hints by Wax

Wax — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:59:45 +0000

Thanks for your answer.
I already checked the forum but it didn’t help me a lot.
I guess the data i have in the csv could give me a picture of 53*139.

I tried to find the prime factor of 82207, but it’s a prime
91181’s prime factors are 19 and 4799… doesn’t help. I expected the factors to be coordinates or rgb values…

Well, if you could help me i would be grateful

Comment on A request for hints by introspect

introspect — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:33:14 +0000

Yup, I actually solved it shortly after posting this entry.

Check out the hints in the Python Challenge hints forum, if you haven’t already done so. Specifically, get some factors, and look at the data you have, using those factors. See the ninja edit I made.

And if you’re still really stuck, remember that “looking” at data differently is a code word for “turn it into an image.”