Everyone with a DVB-T receiver knows that the tuner signal can get corrupted by the weather or in my case the bus which stops in front of the house I live in. Some DVB-T receivers display the tuner signal in an OSD of your TV. Since I’m using a DVB-T card in my PC with [...]
I’ve gathered a lot of sci-fi books in 2010, mostly from flea markets for around about 50c each. The publisher Heyne has its own science fiction series and makes it easy for scifi-nerds to find by printing white “SF” letters onto the black back of the book. If you happen to pile up a certain [...]
Every time i listen to this it gets scarier… Mau!
Okay, this is pure nonsense, but anyway, I’d like to share some thoughts in order to quantify and in some way “locate” god. The whole idea is to work with distances, everyone can measure his or her felt distance to some objects, things or even thoughts. While it’s hard to actually give numbers to those [...]
Hooray, it is world water week! Wait a minute… who cares? Certainly not my faucet in the kitchen which is trying to perform an acoustic variation of Chinese water torture on me every night. Maybe I’m too harsh and its intentions are to soothe me into sleep all the time with its rhythmic dripping-patterns which [...]
I’ve found an article called Optimal Play of the Dice Game Pig by Neller and Presser that discusses a variant of the dice game proposed by the Linux Magazin, the only difference is the winning score and that rolling a 1 leads to passing the die to your opponent instead of 6, so none of [...]
Just a quick post: In a very long rerun of the tests regarding HLimS(17,7) I came to the conclusion that HLimS(17,7) is definitely better than SlimS(16). Here are the results: Bot Matches Wins Defeats WinRatio[%] StartRatio[%] HLimS(7,17) 100000 50659 49341 50.66 50.07 SlimS(16) 100000 49341 50659 49.34 49.93 Thanks to user Solarix [...]
The German Linux-Magazin is sponsoring a programming contest for the following problem: Two players compete in a dice game, every player can roll a six sided die as often as he wishes. As long as no 6 is rolled the numbers are added up and the player can pass the die to the other one [...]