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Apocalypse 3

Posted by michael on from the book-of-revelations dept.

rob_99 writes: "The third installment of the Apocalypse is out!" You may have missed the first or second Apocalypses. This one is roughly "all about operators".

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  1. Re:Imagine by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Wishing for a thing doesn't make it so.

    --
    Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
  2. Re:what a waste of time reading that.. by david+duncan+scott · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Nah, 'cause even back then she was a beautiful and famous star and you'd still be...well, let's just say NOT a beautiful and famous star.

    --

    This next song is very sad. Please clap along. -- Robin Zander

  3. Re:Troll?! by BlowCat · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I agree that there is nothing trollish in the original comment.

    But what do you expect from moderators? They are the same people who read SlashDot and post comments. Whatever algorithm is used to distribute moderation points, it can be abused by trolls.

    Try reading read this story at -1. Most comments are offtopic or real trolls. I'm sure that more than half or the comments to this story were made by people with no Perl programming experience at all.

    This story is just too hard to understand for an average SlashDot user. Almost every on-topic comment has been moderated up (or down, as in this case) because they are rare compared to the noise.

    An average moderator is probably a bit smarter than an average comment poster, but not much.

    What bothers me is that moderators are not forced to moderate at -1 threshold. The moderator guidelines recommend it, but the system doesn't enforce it.

    The guidelines also ask to concentrate on promoting, not demoting. But I believe that some moderators read the story at +2 and demote comments that they don't understand. Yet they almost don't see the real trolls to compare. Neither do they see good comments at +1.

  4. Re:Unicode operators? (slightly OT...) by WWWWolf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It'll be so great to be able to use expressions like "x &274A; y". Of course, you'll have to define for yourself what an eight teardrop-spoked propeller asterisk does...

    Hmm... slashdot doesn't seem to like my character. Gonna make it hard to ask about my programs...

    No, it works just fine. Maybe if you'd use ❊ instead, as the Standards intended: ...

  5. Re:[OT] programming riddle, HELP! by khuber · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Answer: particle swarm optimization

    2.739 1.988 0.854 1.529
    1.581 0.871 2.840 1.818
    2.482 0.861 1.414 2.353
    2.071 1.729 2.523 0.787
    1.302 1.321 3.192 1.295
    1.587 2.860 1.786 0.877
    2.927 1.106 1.952 1.125
    1.827 1.316 0.995 2.972
    3.054 1.085 1.238 1.733
    2.307 2.089 0.752 1.962

    Coding is left as an exercise for the reader.

    -Kevin