It’s neat. I wonder if someone attempted detecting a graph coloring problem to replace it with a constant.

Graph coloring is NP-hard so it would be very difficult to replace it with an O(1) algorithm.

If you mean graph coloring restricted to planar graphs, yes it can always be done with at most 4 colors. But it could still be less, so the answer is not always the same.

(I know it was probably not a very serious comment but I just wanted to infodump about graph theory.)

Plot twist: this universe (planet) was created in order to reverse engineer what the prompt of the previous one was.

It's not that much of a twist, given that it was basically the plot of THGTTG.

THGTTG was actually just an early version of the prompt. "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"

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Agree.

> cargo-culting Stack Overflow

What do you mean by this? I understand “cargo-culting” as building false idols, e.g. wooden headphones and runways to attract airplanes that never come.

It means to copy code or instructions from a site into your own project without having any comprehension of how or why it works.

example: you have a Windows problem. You search and read that "sfc /scannow" seems a popular answer to Windows problems. You run it without ever understanding what sfc does, whether the tool is relevant to your problem, etc. You are cargo culting a solution.

I think the idea is copy-pasting code snippets from StackOverflow without comprehension of whether (and how) the code fixes the problem.

Cargo-cult in relation to programming exists since late 80s.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/cargo-cult-programming.htm...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming

Valid. Maybe something can be learned from using them more frequently, either by the maker or by the user.

“The office according to The Office” by Venkatesh Rao has the “clueless” act as gatekeepers between “sociopaths” and “losers”:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

“The Datasaurus Dozen”:

https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/the-datasaurus-...

Would the license help to prevent an AI training on the example code?

If they eventually start paying attention to licenses, maybe?

No, AI companies are apparently exempted from copyright laws.

edit: bring on the downvotes… doesn't change the fact that fb illegally downloaded a lot of material to train, and so did every other AI company.

You are right.

Your blog reminded me of “Linear RPG”: you run along a line to collect XP. It’s a flash game.

https://sophiehoulden.com/games/thelinearrpg/

Reminds me of Aftertext, which uses backward references to apply markup to earlier parts of the data.

Think about how this could be done recursively, and how scoping could work to avoid spaghetti markup.

Aftertext: https://breckyunits.com/aftertext.html

I do the same. Doing HR’s job is not my job. And yet, some how I do. If I rated any satisfaction metric below 80% my manager’s manager would have him talk to me; there would be flogging until morale improves. It seems all a game of Emperor’s New Clothes.

This isn’t even HR’s job. It’s the person’s manager’s job.