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Friday, May 4th, 2012
10:48 am	Transformations of brainfuck programs A brainfuck program is any string of characters in which the square brackets match. That is, you could walk the string, pushing addresses of left brackets to a stack, popping when you encounter right brackets, never encounter a stack underflow, and end with an empty stack. A brainfuck program represents a transformation between strings (slightly complicated by the fact that some don't terminate. This can, of course, not always be programmatically determined in advance.) Two brainfuck programs will be considered equivalent if they represent the same transformation between strings. Any character not in the set "<>+-[].," can be removed from a brainfuck program. If a brainfuck program ends with any character not in "].", that character can be removed. If a brainfuck program ends with a ']', and there are no '.'s between it and the matching '[', the entire postfix (including both brackets) may be removed. Any of "<>" "><" "+-" "-+" can be removed. Once these rules are applied, nothing commutes nontrivially. That is, angle brackets commute with eachother, but adjacent opposite angle brackets should already be removed, and the commutation of '<' with '<' is pretty trivial =P. Same applies to '+' and '-' That's all I've got. Any other easy simplifications of brainfuck programs that preserve behavior? (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, April 1st, 2012
10:21 pm	‎"Yess, I hear," hissed Harry. "You are an Animaguss?" "Obvioussly," hissed the snake. "Thirty-sseven ruless, number thirty-four: Become Animaguss. All ssensible people do, if can. Thuss, very rare." -HPMOR Serious question: What one thing do all sensible people do (if they can) in real life? (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 5th, 2012
5:53 pm	Rick Santorum Because the fucker does *not* deserve to have his campaign site top his google results. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
10:40 am	10:15 Michael Blume *hug* so I had an odd BART ride train from MacArthur->SF was standing but there was a biggish dude in a hoodie sleeping across a bench so I decide I'm going to sit on the bench with him so I say "excuse me, sir, can you budge over please" a couple times in my usual sorta timid high voice X3 and he doesn't move at all so I stand for a while and then I deepen my voice a bit and say more loudly "sir, can you scoot over so I can sit on the seat next to you" still nothing so I just squeeze into the spot next to him and eventually shove his leg out of my side which gets an "aww, ferchrissakes" and ride like that to SF 10:23 Lindsey Snider lol wow you are brave 10:23 Michael Blume lol I guess? 10:34 Michael Blume I dunno, I still can't quite decide whether I was being a jerk or standing up for my rights as a BART passenger X3 10:35 Lindsey Snider you were both =P 10:35 Michael Blume lol =) ok (Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
5:55 pm	*roughly 24 hours after we got together* Ida: So how was karaoke? Lindsey: Mike was singing songs about my ass! Me: I wasn't singing about your ass, I was singing about asses in general... Lindsey: Everybody loved him though. They were all up and dancing and shouting his name and girls were whipping their bras off and flinging them at the stage.... Me: Yeah, I think that last bit was mostly you, dear. (Comment on this)
5:54 pm	congrats Junio Have I ever mentioned that I've been pulling and building from Git's development tree daily for about a year and have never once been hit by a regression? That is some damned fine project management. Current Mood: impressed (Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
9:16 pm	Lindsey (in reference to the mushroom stew on the stove): We make such delicious babies. Me: We do! Me: Speaking of which, how is our baby -- how's Sean? Lindsey: I don't know, I was playing Myst all day. Me: Let's not ever have that conversation about a non-Sims baby (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
10:33 am	A year later, this thread still makes me absurdly happy. Haven't actually chatted anyone up on a train in ages. Not sure if people are less friendly during commuter hours or if I just need to poke at myself a bit. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, March 18th, 2011
11:10 am	I have been known to make a rather tasty breakfast by pouring tomato sauce into a pan, breaking eggs into it, and scrambling the eggs in situ. Today there wasn't any tomato sauce, so I decided to try cooking down some V8 and scrambling the eggs in that. Freaking awesome. (Comment on this)
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
11:14 am	"I can't believe how many engineers I know who are straight. I mean, you're going to school for engineering and you only want to date girls? Yeah, good luck with that." -Zak (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, December 17th, 2010
5:33 pm	From the "Rationality Quotes" discussion thread on LW HonoreDB15: Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain. --J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Eliezer_Yudkowsky: I can't help but ask whether you've ever found this advice personally useful, and if so, how. MBlume: Actually my first thought upon reading that was "follow the improbability" -- be suspicious of elements of your world-model that seem particularly well optimized in some direction if you can't see the source of the optimization pressure. http://lesswrong.com/lw/37k/rationality_quotes_december_2010/35sf?context=2 (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
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Saturday, May 1st, 2010
12:03 pm	Snap. "Two men, two women, a man and a woman, a cooperative commune of many men and women…they can all serve [the purpose of caring for children]. Oh, and in all those cases, who is having sex with whom is pretty much irrelevant to the children, since these typically are not Catholic Sunday schools, so the children won't be participating in the sex." (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
8:00 pm	Hitler, as "Downfall producer" orders a DMCA takedown from Brad Templeton on Vimeo. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
10:46 am	Today I learned: Code you write in anticipation of a particular feature working -- and which, therefore, you don't actually expect to run until you do a lot more coding -- is always suspect. There's probably two or three typos in there you have no way of testing, and when you do bring it into operation, you're going to have no idea why it's acting so broken. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
8:07 pm	I win so hard at girlfriend Michael: *stares at amazing self-similar vegetable* Alicorn: Would you like to buy it? Michael: I think...I think I would like to hug it. I will hug you instead. Alicorn: You should. I am deliciously self-similar. Alicorn: I contain a factory for making more of me! (Comment on this)
Sunday, February 7th, 2010
5:25 pm	^_^ Dear /r/atheism, on behalf of /r/lgbt, I would like to thank you all for your continued support. You're all totally awesome. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, February 6th, 2010
1:22 am	This makes me sick Chicago Public Health Department destroys thousands of dollars of local food Because of a licensing fuckup. The woman who prepared the food didn't have a proper business license. No health, hygiene, or safety violation was claimed, or even suggested. And teams of men came into the kitchen and poured bleach over perfectly edible food, in a city in which 1 in 10 are starving. I've gotten a little disillusioned about this whole "something bad happened, the internet must know, so that the world can get better!" thing, but seriously, if you know someone in Chicago, please say something. The people who did this deserve to be shamed, humiliated, and ultimately driven out of office. (Comment on this)
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
5:40 pm	God's Laws of Robotics 1. A robot must be made to suffer physical and emotional pain. 2. A robot must be free at any time to turn into an evil robot, especially in so much as this contributes to the First Law. 3. A robot must be given no knowledge of its creator except through obscure manuscripts created by other robots, especially in so much as this contributes to the First or Second Laws. -Edwin Evans (Comment on this)
Monday, January 18th, 2010
10:49 pm	Document we were working on: Nick Bostrom claims [when he was writing] there is "more scholarly work on the life-habits of the dung fly than on existential risks" Me: What does "when he was writing" mean? Is that as opposed to "when he was showering"? Are the part of Nick Bostrom which showers and the part of Nick Bostrom which writes in some sort of disagreement? Steven: Now I can just picture it, Bostrom's standing in the shower and suddenly he thinks "Oh my god, there's more research..." Beth: Now we're *all* picturing it, thanks. Steven: I heard somewhere, though I may have gotten it wrong, that there's been more scholarly work on the mating habits of Nick Bostrom than on existential risk. (Comment on this)