Timeline for Sandbox for Proposed Challenges
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| Jun 10, 2020 at 1:55 | comment | added | Mitchell Spector | @Dingus -- Thank you! I have no problem with answers being posted to both challenges as long as they're still open. (I think the other one should be closed, but I also don't believe in penalizing answerers for problems with a question.) If I had let it linger in the Sandbox for a month, it would be fair game, but it's only been there for a couple of days, which is the right way to do it. | |
| Jun 10, 2020 at 1:52 | comment | added | Dingus | @MitchellSpector I agree that yours is better thought out. The verification program is a great feature - obviously a bit of work went into creating it. I'll leave my answer posted pending the outcome of the close vote. Not because I don't support your claim to priority, but for the sake of my own priority in posting the first answer. | |
| Jun 10, 2020 at 1:43 | comment | added | Mitchell Spector | @Dingus Yes, I just noticed that. I voted to close the other question as a duplicate. Posting in the Sandbox for a couple of days first is the recommended procedure, after all, so my challenge has priority. I've gone ahead and moved it to the main site. (And I think it's better though thought out, and it has a verification program -- plus it benefited from mypronounismonicareinstate's comment about Mathematica built-ins.) | |
| Jun 10, 2020 at 1:28 | comment | added | Dingus | I'm sorry to say that somebody has beaten you to it. | |
| Jun 8, 2020 at 7:03 | history | edited | Mitchell Spector | CC BY-SA 4.0 | edited body |
| Jun 8, 2020 at 4:51 | history | edited | Mitchell Spector | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 3 characters in body |
| Jun 8, 2020 at 4:42 | history | edited | Mitchell Spector | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 16 characters in body |
| Jun 7, 2020 at 21:19 | history | edited | Mitchell Spector | CC BY-SA 4.0 | deleted 10 characters in body |
| Jun 7, 2020 at 18:33 | history | edited | Mitchell Spector | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 58 characters in body |
| Jun 7, 2020 at 18:28 | history | edited | Mitchell Spector | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 58 characters in body |
| Jun 7, 2020 at 18:23 | comment | added | Mitchell Spector | @mypronounismonicareinstate Thanks for pointing that out -- I added in something to handle that. The challenge now specifically prohibits any use of built-in genomic data or protein data. This should take care of somebody somehow getting, for instance, a related virus genome and then just compressing the diff. | |
| Jun 7, 2020 at 18:17 | history | edited | Mitchell Spector | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 266 characters in body |
| Jun 7, 2020 at 13:30 | comment | added | the default. | Mathematica has ResourceData["Genetic Sequences for the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus"]. It fetches data from the internet, but somebody like me could argue that it's allowed because it's sort of built-in, so I think you should disallow coronavirus genome built-ins here. I get 7846 bytes for Bubblegum with zopfli (probably because the raw storage mode in DEFLATE always stores >=1 byte per source byte, and the other ones have various LZ77 stuff in the Huffman tree, increasing overhead for non-compressible parts, assuming I understand DEFLATE correctly) | |
| Jun 7, 2020 at 6:43 | history | edited | Mitchell Spector | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 4 characters in body |
| Jun 7, 2020 at 3:48 | history | edited | Mitchell Spector | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 34 characters in body |
| Jun 7, 2020 at 2:02 | history | answered | Mitchell Spector | CC BY-SA 4.0 |