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Yep .. it seems to be allowed, and only now I am fully aware of the risk I took
( excluded, banished from the Lounge, not allowed to talk in SOTW, etc ...)
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wow ... until now I never heard of heteronyms but distinction based on sound seems fuzzy to me,
- spelling is well defined, but sounds ... this would mean that a homonym can also sometimes be a heteronym, or did I miss your point ... Cheers,
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It was mostly a play on words :rim-shot:.
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Oops ... in some way I thought so. It would be thus "learning by playing", which is BTW quite a good outcome ...
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Tachyonx wrote: "learning by playing"
I had to; my wife has a Master's degree in English  .
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Actually something I mull over now and then.
For a lot of criminal acts, you's have to be insane to even try them (various reasons). As an example, killing someone for their sneakers. Animal cruelty is another.
On that basis, it really is a guilty plea. OK - so we won't send you to prison, but since you're that crazy, we'll never let you out on the streets again. Much to dangerous and unpredictable.
Case closed !
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Not necessarily insane, just immoral.
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Always puzzled me how you could be not guilty of murder by reason of insanity - surely no sane person would commit murder?
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Sooooo, I read that as "not guity by reason of insanity" Marc Clifton. It's good to know you have a defence.
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The best one is "temporary insanity". How convenient!
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That's also known as parenthood.
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As a non-parent, suddenly that explains a lot.
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yeah.. for sure... temporary insanity. we'd live in a perfect world. I hope there are valid ways to demonstarte that moment of insanity
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In which case the pleader should be instantly neutered and locked in a padded cell for a substantial term. I'm a great believer in eugenics
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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~ singularity's brink ?
are we near the nether edge where real
and virtual are just a-and-b-sides for
the theme music for the march of genes?
analogue wonder of our bag of meat and
bones eclipsed by a digital perfection
where we can wallow in spotless dreams?
communal fragmented into isolated pods
reveling in the instantaneous illusion
of sharing thought divorced from being?
hunkered down in always online bunkers,
who will see the new barbed-wire fence
surrounding shrinking personal freedom?
to me the choice's clear: to hell with
virtual suicide by FaceBook or Twitter ~
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«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Yup. The evolution of homo sapiens resulting in the creation of machines that allow us to create virtual realities simply points out how what has always exist: the need to escape the dull and boring present into magical/violent/sensual/transwarp alternates.
BillWoodruff wrote: to hell with virtual suicide by FaceBook or Twitter
There's always the "resurrect" button, you know. 
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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I wrote a small (85 lines of C# code) backtraking Sudoku solver - primarily to illustrate the idea of backtracking. (After all, the fun of Sudoku is not "Press this button to se the solution", but exercizing your brain  .)
Wikipedia claims that the general problem of solving a Sudoku "is known to be NP-complete". So I thought finding a Sudoku problem that could really stress a PC would be simple. Not true. The most difficult I have found until now solves in 3.4 milliseconds, evaluating about 110,000 tentative digit placements (about 30 ns per evaluation).
A typical "trait" of backtracking is that on the average it usually performs well, but the worst case performance may be bad. So I am searching for examples of that worst-case performance .
Where can I find Sudoku boards that are truly difficult to solve, even for a PC?
NP complete problems are extremely dependent on problem size, and 9 by 9 is not exactly a large problem. My solver can handle any board size, but I made a very quick and dirty user interface that handles 9 by 9 only, so I would like to stay within that size.
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Try to give your prog 9x9 empty squares!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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That's actually the most simple one to solve  (but there are multiple solutions).
modified 13-Sep-18 21:01pm.
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I would think that less much clues with a multitude of solutions gives you a deeper search tree. I would not be surprised if that takes more time...
The most simple would be with one missing square.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Or no missing squares...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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True that!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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My backtracker makes 970 checks to fill an empty Sudoku board correctly, in about 30 microseconds.
Don't ask me how that CPU can do the check in 30 ns/check, but it does. The program has a single thread; before I started coding I was considering how to do multithreaded backtracking, but when a typical problem is solved in a handful milliseconds, then you don't do multithreading to improve response time. Actually, one reason why I would like a really difficult, time consuming one is to see if I can make it faster by multithreading.
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You might not find what you're after. The accepted minimum number of clues that produces a *unique* solution is currently thought to be 17 so I'd look for boards with that number of clues. However less clues doesn't make it "harder", it just means there are possibly multiple solutions. If I was you I'd probably make my own starting solutions using a range of clues form various locations to see if you can work out what is a computationally hard board yourself.
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