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- Mon Dec 05, 2022 3:20 pm
- Forum: Programming languages
- Topic: ChatGPT
- Replies: 3
- Views: 916
Re: ChatGPT
I get the impression that after the initial hype and surprise at how good it seems, enthusiasm is fading and criticism emerging. Play with the tool a bit more, and you start to think of it in terms like "it's off hallucinating again", or "it's really good at bulls***ting", or &qu...
- Sun Dec 04, 2022 5:24 pm
- Forum: Programming languages
- Topic: ChatGPT
- Replies: 3
- Views: 916
Re: ChatGPT
Noting that chatGPT claims "I am not able to provide information on events or developments that have occurred after the time period covered by my training data" and "My knowledge cutoff is in the year 2021, and I am unable to provide information on events or developments that have occ...
- Sun Dec 04, 2022 2:29 pm
- Forum: Programming languages
- Topic: ChatGPT
- Replies: 3
- Views: 916
ChatGPT
Anyone else tried testing the newfangled https://chat.openai.com/chat on Project Euler problems? (Requires an easily created openai account to use.) I did just try idly pasting the text of the first five problems into it. Bit of a mixed bag output: in all cases it gave the correct answer, but its lo...
- Tue Aug 27, 2019 10:57 am
- Forum: News, Suggestions, and FAQ
- Topic: About Statistics-->Countries
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2962
Re: About Statistics-->Countries
Aha, I'd been wondering about this since a browser tab I had open on the old https://projecteuler.net/country=Scotland page broke and I found it again at https://projecteuler.net/location=Scotland . This thread solves the mystery... I'd suspected it was probably something related to territorial clai...
- Wed Nov 28, 2018 11:15 pm
- Forum: Recreational
- Topic: Project Euler - Learning to code efficiently
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8927
Re: Project Euler - Learning to code efficiently
I would not say that Project Euler (PE) will teach you to code efficiently; more that you will need to learn to code efficiently to solve Project Euler problems. PE itself doesn't actually give you much to show you what efficient coding looks like (apart from some hints about prime sieving in PDFs a...
- Sat Apr 11, 2015 6:01 pm
- Forum: Recreational
- Topic: I just started project euler like 2 days ago.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5879
Re: I just started project euler like 2 days ago.
Nice. Bit loud for me; does make me wonder about other PE logo-ed things though: a PE lapel pin maybe? Or a PE mug (with an Euler picture or some other suitably Euler-ish decor on the other side)? OEIS (if you haven't come across it yet in your Project Euler journey... you will!) were having a bit o...
- Sun Mar 29, 2015 2:06 pm
- Forum: Recreational
- Topic: Favorite Problem?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10956
Re: Favorite Problem?
Thanks for explaining your philosophy MuthuVeerappanR. Elsewhere (maybe a thread on this board) I've commented that (IMHO) Project Euler has similarities with sports like rock climbing or mountaineering where most of the competition is "with yourself" and you define your own criteria for a...
- Sun Mar 29, 2015 12:33 am
- Forum: Recreational
- Topic: Favorite Problem?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10956
Re: Favorite Problem?
Hmmm...MuthuVeerappanR you claim to have solved problems using 12 hours and 2.5 days of computing time? Might I suggest that you might be missing the point of Project Euler? Personally I'd be unhappy submitting a solution to the site unless I had computed it in the requisite minute (those who can, s...
- Sun Nov 17, 2013 5:29 pm
- Forum: Recreational
- Topic: Jobs
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5094
Re: Jobs
I haven't seen enough job related traffic on this forum to make me think there's a need for a separate board on the topic. domdomdom's original post just makes me think "you need a more challenging job". Go and read some of Csikszentmihalyi's stuff on the state of mind called "flow&qu...
- Mon Apr 15, 2013 3:28 pm
- Forum: Recreational
- Topic: Happy Birthday Leonhard Euler!!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2813
Re: Happy Birthday Leonhard Euler!!
My wife just noticed today's Google Doodle marking Leonhard Euler's birthday:
"Look, it's Leonhard Euler! ... He's your nemesis! ... I mean hero!"
(Actually, I think nemesis was probably about right...)
"Look, it's Leonhard Euler! ... He's your nemesis! ... I mean hero!"
(Actually, I think nemesis was probably about right...)
- Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:19 pm
- Forum: Recreational
- Topic: Solution threads at the forum. Are they important for you ?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6616
Re: Solution threads at the forum. Are they important for yo
What makes me really happy is seeing a bunch of other folks posting things like "hardest one yet" when I finally crack a really head-bangingly tough one. Good! Not just me then! The other more pragmatic thing is picking up other mathematical techniques/tricks useful for solving (later) pro...
- Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:04 pm
- Forum: Recreational
- Topic: Physics site like Project Euler?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8026
Re: Physics site like Project Euler?
That would be pretty cool. I do find I have more affinity for the PE problems which are a bit more on the applied side (geometrical or probability ones mainly). Recently I needed to revise my knowledge of FFTs and my first instinct was to look for a PE problem involving them... but apparently there ...
- Mon Feb 25, 2013 7:30 pm
- Forum: Programming languages
- Topic: Interesting Observation
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4550
Re: Interesting Observation
notfruit wrote: > Some people prefer to stick with a language (like c++) even though they don't need all the bulk of the language I suspect there could be a substantial number of people using PE as a platform to explore/learn new languages as there are people using their "day job" language...
- Sat Oct 06, 2012 12:25 am
- Forum: Programming languages
- Topic: Scratch?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6143
Re: Scratch?
Nice one; wondered when we'd see some Scratch-ing on PE. Can see the difficulty in posting solutions in the forum though! Having watched some friend's bright kid get into programming through Scratch, I think it's an absolutely fantastic tool for learning; the snap-together blocks sidestep many of th...
- Thu Oct 04, 2012 7:00 pm
- Forum: Recreational
- Topic: Graph of the Statistics
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10883
Re: Graph of the Statistics
Semi-related to this, some stuff I did a while ago from stats on participants by country at http://www.bottlenose.demon.co.uk/article/euler/index.htm#participants (bear in mind this was back in the day of the old 50-problem "levels"), and also at http://www.bottlenose.demon.co.uk/article/e...
- Mon Sep 03, 2012 11:27 pm
- Forum: Recreational
- Topic: 1 minute contest variant
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3891
Re: 1 minute contest variant
Indeed. With AWS EC2 spot instances available for under 1c per hour, it's presumably entirely possible for anyone with the solution code available to script the marshalling of enough instances to have claimed to solve the entire lot in however much time their longest solution takes for just a few do...
- Sat Apr 14, 2012 1:54 pm
- Forum: Applied Mathematics
- Topic: Any PE problems requiring Fourier Transform/FFT to solve ?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8823
Any PE problems requiring Fourier Transform/FFT to solve ?
I'm curious whether there are any Project Euler problems which require a Fourier Transform to solve, either because the solution implementation actually includes FFT code, or because some analytic treatment involving FT reveals something needed for a solution. No need to give a problem number if it ...
- Fri Apr 13, 2012 1:38 pm
- Forum: Recreational
- Topic: Alcohol and problem solving
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4345
Alcohol and problem solving
This recently published research cannot go unremarked: Drinking Alcohol May Significantly Enhance Problem Solving Skills Does this square with anyone's experience ? While I'm partial to "a wee dram" on the side during a late evening problem solving session, I can't say I'd claim it was par...
- Fri Apr 06, 2012 11:57 pm
- Forum: Recreational
- Topic: Visual artefacts of Project Euler coding
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7571
Re: Visual artefacts of Project Euler coding
The poster was made with LaTex and the "beamerposter" package. I use LaTeX from the texlive distribution included in Debian (install texlive-full to pull in everything ). More about beamerposter (and some other examples): http://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~dreuw/latexbeamerposter.php...
- Wed Apr 04, 2012 1:00 pm
- Forum: Recreational
- Topic: Visual artefacts of Project Euler coding
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7571
Re: Visual artefacts of Project Euler coding
Hmmm thanks that's very interesting information. I do probably tend to overruse BigInt; if there is any doubt about whether a problem will fit into 64bit "Long" range, I'll generally start off using a BigInt through until it becomes clear that I need some more performance to get a sub-minu...