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Don't forget the utterly classic anagrams we made out of "Information Superhighway" when that term was first introduced to a skeptical public. https://ad1c.us/infobahn.htm
human parties | puritan shameI'm a non-coding lurker here, but the only thing that ever motivated me to write my own program was to solve the newspaper anagram puzzle, "Jumble", faster than my wife. I wrote it in Basic, then re-wrote it in assembly language, I forget when. Then in Fortran while home bound during the first summer of the pandemic - to atone for my past sin of neglecting to learn Fortran when I had a chance in the late 1960's.
I proudly boasted to a friend about my winning Boggle solver and they said it was the pettiest thing they had ever heard of.
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I'm listening. Please explain.
You basically said, “Can you believe someone actually was so stupid as to ask this question on stackexchange? I didn’t believe anyone could actually be that stupid, so I wasn’t go to address it, but it turns out there actually are people that stupid, and they actually outed themselves by posting their question out in the open! So, here I am having to address it in my blog post in case there are other people who actua…
All those thoughts about what a stupid question it is, and how stupid someone must have been to ask it—all those are thoughts you had, not me.
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According to GPT-4, an equivalent APL one-liner is: (⊢⌷⍨∘⍋∘≢¨)↑1<≢¨⊢⌸(⍋⊢)¨⎕NGET'/usr/share/dict/words'1
That doesn't work in Dyalog APL, comes back with RANK ERROR. It's idiomatic to pick ⊃ the first result of ⎕NGET to get just the lines to work on, and not the other things like file encoding. Then grade-up-right-train-each (⍋⊢)¨ is redunant, it's the same as grade-up-each ⍋¨ The grade is an array of which indices to take to put the argument in sorted order and I don't think it makes sense to group ⌸ by that since the…
I'm a non-coding lurker here, but the only thing that ever motivated me to write my own program was to solve the newspaper anagram puzzle, "Jumble", faster than my wife. I wrote it in Basic, then re-wrote it in assembly language, I forget when. Then in Fortran while home bound during the first summer of the pandemic - to atone for my past sin of neglecting to learn Fortran when I had a chance in the late 1960's.
I did similar for a newspaper puzzle unscrambler, pushing to rewrite it in lower level languages (PowerShell then C# then Rust) and changing algorithm (from sort letters, to precompute lookup hashtable of sorted letters, to multiply prime numbers one for each alphabet letter to drop the overhead of sorting, to lookup hash of those, to sorting the integer results into an array to do a binary search through and jump to…
how does that work?
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The point is that you don’t need a hash table implementation. And the normalization that is used as the sorting key doesn’t otherwise have good hash-like qualities (like constant size and a good distribution) and thus doesn’t especially deserve to be called a hash.
How do you extract the last (largest) entry for each normalized key from the sorted list? What is the command line function?
No hash table needed, just splitting the line into the two fields, equality comparison, and appending values to a list.
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Tell me you’re a millennial who grew up watching The Simpsons without etc etc.
Actually early genx. I don’t think most millennials were old enough for a lot of the jokes in 90’s simpsons as they were young teens. But glad you got it!
I was born in 1982, and a lot of the humor went over my head til much later. But the first ten seasons or so are still indelibly etched in my memory.
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You basically said, “Can you believe someone actually was so stupid as to ask this question on stackexchange? I didn’t believe anyone could actually be that stupid, so I wasn’t go to address it, but it turns out there actually are people that stupid, and they actually outed themselves by posting their question out in the open! So, here I am having to address it in my blog post in case there are other people who actua…
I didn't “basically” say any of that. I didn't say any of it at all; you made it all up and then attributed it to me. All I actually did was to state a fact: someone on StackExchange actually asked this question. All those thoughts about what a stupid question it is, and how stupid someone must have been to ask it—all those are thoughts you had, not me.
Given the tone of the rest of the article I assumed that I'd either read something into it that wasn't there or was missing some context - for example, perhaps the person on SO had insisted that this was the correct approach, and you'd gone to some lengths to show that it was not and were exasperated by it by the time you wrote the article.
At any rate - it didn't really take away from your article for me, but I did see it as condescending.
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I didn't “basically” say any of that. I didn't say any of it at all; you made it all up and then attributed it to me. All I actually did was to state a fact: someone on StackExchange actually asked this question. All those thoughts about what a stupid question it is, and how stupid someone must have been to ask it—all those are thoughts you had, not me.
FWIW, I also originally read that line to imply "I thought this was obvious, but apparently I need to be explicit anyway". Given the tone of the rest of the article I assumed that I'd either read something into it that wasn't there or was missing some context - for example, perhaps the person on SO had insisted that this was the correct approach, and you'd gone to some lengths to show that it was not and were exasper…