Hello,
This post is an announcement of forming a collaborative group for solving problems related to Automata, Languages, and Complexity, which are usually at an introductory theory of computation undergrad course.
The focus is on solving problems not reading for the first time. We hope members share their insights, approaches, and strategies together. Sharing even partial progress is welcomed as others might contribute upon it.
As we believe everyone's time is limited, The group will take a week-based iterative approach for communication, So that you don't need to check new messages every 5 minutes.
This is an excellent chance for members interested in theoretical computer science to form new connections and friendships, Especially that we will be challenging everyone's skills by tackling non-trivial problems.
A seemingly good candidate for the problem set is Du & Ko's book Problem Solving in Automata, Languages, and Complexity, who authored Theory of Computational Complexity as well.
The only requirement is basic mathematical maturity and a familiarity with Sipser's introduction. Members coming from pure math background are welcomed, but they will be asked to self-study the materials on their own.
If you are interested send me a direct message here on reddit. All feedbacks are welcomed.
Hello! What's the difference between the domain-specific language and problem-oriented language?
This music programming language can run in browsers smoothly thanks to WebAssembly:
Check the tech details here:
https://github.com/chaosprint/glicol
Any feedback would be appreciated!
I'm a *Very* language oriented person. I'm fluent in Korean and Japanese, I learned to read Kanji at a high level fairly quickly, and I teach English as a profession (here in Japan). I naturally do well with language, but I cannot do even simple math problems on paper. I've met a lot of people who are totally opposite. Outside of language I don't consider myself especially intelligent at all. Outside of language my memory is also quite bad.
So I was curious, what type of people do you see learn code the fastest? I've started Python and was just wondering about this for curiosity's sake.
Everyone talks about advantages of functional languages over object oriented.. I'm curious to hear everyone's thoughts on the advantages of Object oriented instead. Particularly been thinking about mutability.
Benefits of Immutablity
- Hard to accidentally change a variable you didn't intend to change.
- Less likely to accidentally refer to the wrong variable
This study suggests using a functional language does indeed reduce bugs significantly:
https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~filkov/papers/lang_github.pdf
Benefits of Mutability
- Performance and memory wise mutability gives some advantages, though proper compiler level optimization helps a lot on this front.
- Managing state seems much harder with functional code.. such as having a car object in a game and you have to throw away the old car every frame when you update it's speed, I think your main loop would have to be recursive with tail optimization to keep track of game state? Doesn't feel as clean. Not a functional coding pro.
- Seem all around easier.. and a little bit like functional languages are the Esperanto of programming languages but that might just be my bias from having more experience with OO.
- Can use iteration instead of recursion, which is often easier to reason about
- At the end of the day you need to interact with mutable information anyway in functional programming.. files, database, networks, etc. So 'purely' functional isn't completely honest
One of the data points I found particularly interesting is in this study it was found that Object Oriented languages tend to be more productive than functional languages, found another study that indicating the same thing on this front though I can't find it at the moment:https://medium.com/smalltalk-talk/smalltalk-s-proven-productivity-fe7cbd99c061
I do believe at a minimum modern languages should support immutability by default but wondering if there is a better way or specific cases when mutability is needed.
That's it. I'm newbie :)
Hello, I am 21 years old Bsc cs graduated, I have basic knowledge about Languages.
Hi! I'm Matteo and I'm a game designer.
I recently released my first Forged in the Dark game (based on the Blades in the Dark ruleset), Bloodstone, and I wanted to share the mechanics of which I am most proud: the Stamina system instead of Stress.
I'm here to collect feedback, discuss the design of the Stress system in Blades and the possible hacks, and maybe to inspire other designers or players to try to hack Blades themself (it's a really amazing game system, and I'm in love with it).
How Stress Works in Blades
The player has a pool of 8 Stress points which they can spend in various ways. The two most common are:
- Spend 2 points to get + 1d to the Action Roll (the roll the player does, facing a risky situation). Generally, the dice pool is 1-3, based on the action used, plus extra dice (gathered spending 2 stress points or through the help of another PC). A player can spend ONLY 2 stress points per roll, to gather a +1d.
- Resist the consequences of an action, paying a variable amount of stress (from 0 to 5), established by the Resistance Roll. Resist to a consequence is automatic, the player rolls only to determine how much stress they will spend.
Stress is recovered in the downtime phase, between one score and the next one.
How Stamina works in Bloodstone
The Stamina system is slightly different. The main source of inspiration is Bloodborne (yeah, I really like that From Software game), and I needed to tweak the Stress to match a different game experience I want to bring to the table (more action-oriented).
All characters have 3 stamina points.
These points can be used:
- To get extra dice during an Action Roll (character attributes range from 1 to 3, so on average 2 dice are rolled during an Action Roll, which equates to a 30% chance of succeeding without consequences). For each Stamina point "spent" (a somewhat misleading term, it is probably better to say "staked", as if it were a bet), the player gets + 1d.
>The results of action roll are (both in Blades and in my game):
6s -> critical success
6 -> success
4/5 -> success with consequences
1-3 -> failure with consequences
- To resist the consequences: Stamina points are the only pool from which players can draw for the Resistance Roll. Unlike in Blades, in Bloodstone the resistance is not automatic: if you want to resist, you have to roll and hope to get a good result.
>The result of the **resistance ro
... keep reading on reddit ➡Update: My bad to potentially sound like I'm asking whether all you people do is making human-computer comm languages. Actually I was aware you make people-people languages for granted, so didn't think too much about my tone. Sorry if I did offend someones, that's really not my intention! I mean to ask whether some of you happen to make people-computer languages or interested in it.
Hi, I'm newcomer with computer programming background. As I understand it, software developers (GUI designers, programmers etc.), and more generally, HCI (Human Computer Interface) makers don't take inspirations from natural languages. Software products like UNIX shells, Windows cmd/PowerShell, may feature CLI (command line interface) that's a bit closer to human language, but barely similar. And AI (Artificial Intelligence) folks may train neural networks to do NLP (Natural Language Process) and mimic human language speaking / recognition, but that's treated as special domain application from the perspective of computer profession.
So I'd like to ask, do you construct languages to communicate with non-people entities (i.e. computers mostly)?
It is not a hardware problem. Yesterday, I changed system languages and my phone hanged for a bit before becoming responsive again. But, a narrow portion of the top part of the touchscreen isn't working. I can pull down the notification bar from one spot only, and the top portions of some apps aren't working. I rebooted in safe mode, and it did fix it up to a point (but not completely) which leads me to believe it is a software problem. Any fixes?
If someone close to you says "I deserve to be loved and supported" what is a good way to respond? I have tried explaining that framing things in terms of what we or other people deserve is less helpful than expressing needs. I guess my need for understanding is not being met when my partner doesn't respect my requests to speak to me in non alienating language. I get hung up and have a hard time just translating the jackal to giraffe. But my partner's belief that being in a relationship obligates someone to give what they deserve is problematic. Any thoughts?
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