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Feb 2, 2018 at 13:17 history edited BrainStone CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jan 25, 2018 at 4:07 comment added BrainStone @Nathaniel I see. So then I have to hardcode my map. Good to know. Shouldn’t be too much of an issue.
Jan 25, 2018 at 0:40 comment added N. Virgo @BrainStone I'm afraid I don't know what "analyzing the text during startup" means. The important thing is that your code cannot make multiple passes through the text - it can't have access to any character of the text before it makes a guess about that character. (This is why I asked for the score calculating code. If I can see that then it should be more clear what's actually happening. I did look for it in the git repo, but it's not clear to me which part of the code does what job. If you could make a self-contained piece of code for that task it would help.)
Jan 24, 2018 at 14:22 comment added BrainStone @Nathaniel is my approach of analyzing the text during startup acceptable (I know I need to add line that actually initializes it) or would I need to hardcore the matrix?
Jan 24, 2018 at 14:21 comment added BrainStone @user202729 my solution actually got inspired by seed.
Jan 24, 2018 at 13:41 comment added user202729 Nice idea, but won't help getting a good score. +1 anyway.
Jan 24, 2018 at 13:39 history edited user202729 CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jan 24, 2018 at 13:14 comment added user202729 You will then end up encoding the text into the random seed. See esoteric programming language Seed, and you may want to reverse engineer the MT19937 program and beat this answer (if you can).
Jan 24, 2018 at 12:08 comment added BrainStone Upon reviewing the rules I have noticed that I violate some of them. I naturally will update my answer once I fix the issues
Jan 24, 2018 at 11:16 history edited BrainStone CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jan 24, 2018 at 11:10 comment added BrainStone @Nathaniel I linked the score code directly. In addition with the repository would you consider this enough?
Jan 24, 2018 at 11:09 history edited BrainStone CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jan 24, 2018 at 10:58 comment added N. Virgo Could you include a test harness in your answer that evaluates the score?
Jan 24, 2018 at 10:55 history answered BrainStone CC BY-SA 3.0