Must…resist…the…temptation of posting a truly marvelous puzzle, since it might be used in the upcoming puzzle test.
As a slight hint, if the scale is 1-10 (10 being the hardest), this puzzle’s difficulty is approximately 8.5. And I don’t think I’ve ever made something this hard prior to this puzzle.
It’s like this:
stream = open(“World.txt”);
isEOF(stream) {
output “End of World(.txt)”;
}
Seriously though. I’m absolutely sure the world won’t end…I think I should say the world didn’t end. The winter solstice is said to be a minute ago since this post (18.12 UTC+7, 06.12 AM EST), so if you happen to read this post, the prediction has been refuted successfully.
In a very unrelated context, someone wants to draw some sketches to be included in the story-like puzzle pack? I can’t pay though, so only accept this if you’re really bored without any work-in-progresses and you decide to go to a random puzzler’s blog.
Screw it. Deleting the post and the page, since it’s a very stupid genre.
Meanwhile, I’m currently writing a detailed post. Time to canonize Sky and his surroundings.
Also, change of theme, and a post on 20-12-2012. I just have to have something 20-12-2012 here 😛
TOEFL iBT score of 103/120, enjoy reading about grammar constructs (not the formal grammar which is math-related although I like it too), and just thought of the word “impromptu” when I wanted to type this entry (which after googling “define impromptu” gives the meaning similar to unplanned, a perfect adjective for this entry). Yay.
I’m also a sesquipedalian, and I just searched the meaning of “hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian”. Apparently it’s an adjective applied to long words, while sesquipedalian is a noun describing either long words or people using long words. Meh hippopotomonstro- prefix is weird.
It won’t work for me. I failed to make Puzzle 30 large and I’m feeling really uninspired to make Puzzle 40 large either (Puzzle 39 constructed and no large grid ready in my puzzle book).
Meh. No longer any guarantee of large puzzles. I feel better to make puzzles that employ a particular trick as its attractive point. Large puzzles I made tend to combine stuffs so no trick is really highlighted. Maybe if I want to employ a trick that simply cannot be done in small puzzles, sure, but let’s see.
Meanwhile, Puzzle 39? Yes, I have a puzzle to be posted when I get on computer. Where are my twos :O
A syllogism is a kind of logical argument in which one conclusion is inferred from two or more premises of a specific form. — Wikipedia
According to Wikipedia (and propositional calculus), all the following are invalid inferences.
All humans are mammals.
No cats are humans.
Hence, no cats are mammals.
(AEE-1)
Some humans are not male.
All fathers of humans are humans.
Hence, all fathers of humans are not male.
(OAE-1)
No humans are reptiles.
No cats are humans.
Hence, all cats are reptiles.
(OOA-1)
A few other resources agree with this.
However, introducing my Indonesian teacher. He believes that all of the above three syllogisms are valid (but wrong), while propositional calculus states that the above three are invalid.
Also, here’s another:
All Indonesians are humans.
All humans are mammals.
Hence, some mammals are Indonesians, given that the set of Indonesians is not empty.
(AAI-4)
Propositional calculus agrees that it’s valid, but my teacher basically rejects everything not in Format 1 (major MP, minor SM, conclusion SP).
I never know that the concept of syllogism is heavily different between Indonesian and math. English and math both agree on the given concept of syllogism as in Wikipedia, right? I’m pretty sure all other languages do the same (at least Greek does). Why Indonesian has an insane syllogism rules is beyond my comprehension. Or maybe not Indonesian, but this Indonesian teacher; after all, all Indonesian sources I’ve read also state the same thing, only my teacher differs.
Sooner or later I might as well ditch Indonesian language. Seriously. Either it’s illogical or my teacher is illogical.
imo 2012 problem 6 (25): This. Basically the idea is inducting with step 12 (
hidato (15): My only Hidato published in this blog at least for now. Probably more coming later, but it’s hard to find something new. Maybe this puzzle pack by MellowMelon suffices?
fillomino (13): Yes I make many Fillomino puzzles. Subscribe to my blog 😛
Also a few that intrigues me:
fillomino solver (4): Fillomino is NP-complete by reduction to 3SAT. And while computer-generated Fillomino are easy (then why would you need to find solvers for them?), handmade Fillomino are hard for computer if not using heuristics. I don’t think one exists out there yet.
numerical puzzle in math 6 by 100 square (3): Wait what? Grammatically confusing for me. If you want a 6×100 puzzle though I can arrange it.
videos on how to yajilin (1): I don’t have it, although I can make some guide. Also searching Yajilin in YouTube gives this…what? Seriously.
give a formal proof that the kenken puzzle below has exactly one solution. (1): Needs the puzzle.
Procrastination rules.
This post is written from my Android phone.
I’m scheduling this to be up at 20 November 2012, 12.00, of whatever time zone this WordPress for Android app uses (probably UTC+7, but let’s see). Let’s see when WordPress posts this to my Twitter. Recent scheduled posts had the tweets delayed by 1h 20m and 20m respectively.
UPDATE: 0m? Meh.
Yeah, I’m a fan of it. Wait who is not a fan of a series if they have like 21 consecutive volumes from the start of the series while it has only 23[citation needed] and only 21[see Gramedia bookstores in Indonesia] published in Indonesia? Wait I use too much Wikipedia style.
Anyway, anyone knows where Volume 22-23 on the internet? I only find as far as Chapter 19, which is in Volume 3. 😦
Meh two three-stage, green evolution families both in Gen 5 which are not commonly used.
Sewaddle’s evolution is not Whimsicott.
Sewaddle – Swadloon – Leavanny
Whimsicott – Petilil – Lilligant
On average, I know about 400 out of 649 names of Pokemon now. About 250 of them pretty detailed (type, evolution family), 150 of them are detailed (size, color), and 100 of them are more detailed (NatDex, notable things). Yay. That explains why I’m bad at memory; I’m full with Pokemon 😛
Chaos at the Sky 