xkcd 2916: The Credible Machine

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Post by benley » Sat, Apr 06, 2024, 4:30 PM UTC

xkcd 2916: The Credible Machine
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Re: xkcd 2916: The Credible Machine

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Post by bell-cot » Sat, Apr 06, 2024, 4:38 PM UTC

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Re: xkcd 2916: The Credible Machine

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Apr 06, 2024, 5:36 PM UTC

bell-cot wrote: post #2

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Re: xkcd 2916: The Credible Machine

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Post by Rinzler89 » Sat, Apr 06, 2024, 7:07 PM UTC

For anyone wondering, this is a go at "The Incredible Machine" game series that was popular 20-30 years ago.

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

Re: xkcd 2916: The Credible Machine

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Post by RGamma » Sat, Apr 06, 2024, 9:34 PM UTC

Rinzler89 wrote: post #4

For anyone wondering, this is a go at "The Incredible Machine" game series that was popular 20-30 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine

Also, I enjoyed the similar Crazy Machines, that has more modern versions available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Machines

Re: xkcd 2916: The Credible Machine

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Apr 06, 2024, 10:11 PM UTC

bell-cot wrote: post #2

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Re: xkcd 2916: The Credible Machine

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Post by em-bee » Sat, Apr 06, 2024, 10:14 PM UTC

more details can be found here:

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2916:_Machine

Re: xkcd 2916: The Credible Machine

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Post by djmips » Sun, Apr 07, 2024, 1:41 AM UTC

This was writen in Rust?

Re: xkcd 2916: The Credible Machine

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Post by nextaccountic » Sun, Apr 07, 2024, 3:17 AM UTC

Ok, so this uses https://rapier.rs/ which is very cool

Rapier, alongside https://nalgebra.org/ (which it uses underneath) has seriously good documentation and some advanced features like cross-platform determinism (something made hard by the way floating point differs between platforms)

Re: xkcd 2916: The Credible Machine

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Post by yashg » Sun, Apr 07, 2024, 4:52 AM UTC

As usual, I am too dumb to understand this.