Sergey Smirnov

• Countdown to PDC2008: Technical Fellow John Shewchuk Talks About His Talk at PDC2008

  Sep 15, 2008 at 1:59 AM

  Let me guess... Olympics in Los Angeles (1984)? No, Fridjon, thanks for the tip, but I'm out. My kitchen timer rang up a couple of hours ago

• Countdown to PDC2008: Technical Fellow John Shewchuk Talks About His Talk at PDC2008

  Sep 14, 2008 at 11:24 PM

  I think I know what the words are (there are only three object nouns in the sentences). I just can't get the point or I got it, but I didn't realize that. BTW, I appreciate you apparently knowing the answer and letting others to solve the problem. I think I'll give up on that one, although I can't get rid of a feeling that I'm almost there...

• Countdown to PDC2008: Technical Fellow John Shewchuk Talks About His Talk at PDC2008

  Sep 14, 2008 at 2:24 PM

  Speaking of the challenge, the longest distances I could go so far were between 31 and 52 hops depending on the assumptions. And that’s after quite a bit of rather contrived coding to eliminate loops. This one seems to be more difficult than the previous two (unless I’m heading in the wrong direction J ). I wonder what I’m going to do tomorrow lunchtime… J J J

• Countdown to PDC2008: Technical Fellow John Shewchuk Talks About His Talk at PDC2008

  Sep 12, 2008 at 12:34 AM

  Mike,

  
  

  Is it possible to post a higher resolution image with the challenge? Until then, back to real life challenges

  
  

  Regards,

• Countdown to PDC2008: Secrets Revealed

  Sep 08, 2008 at 10:56 AM

  Thank you, Fridjon. That’s very generous of you. I mean both your comment and the right arm offer My plan now is to see what Mike comes up with this week. If I’m lucky, I might earn a left arm from someone else’s t-shirt. Eventually, I hope to end up with a unique stitched thing with some history behind it. It’d be nice if the pieces were in different colours and signed by the owners

• Countdown to PDC2008: Secrets Revealed

  Sep 07, 2008 at 11:58 PM

  Thank you for the audios, Mike. I think I made a mistake decoding the first file. In my version, each sample in the source audio was used to populate the resulting audio only once, so that my version of the output audio contaned samples with unique indexes. This overkill apparently resulted in a bit more distorted audio which prevented me from picking the name, Carol, correclty. Anyway, it was quite an enjoyable challenge. How about half-a-tshirt, perhaps, a vest? :)

• Countdown to PDC2008: Secrets Revealed

  Sep 06, 2008 at 1:31 AM

  Congratulations Fridjon! I knew that the name on the audio had something to do either with filtering out the noise or with further encoding. But my comrehension skills are limited:) I obviously tried GAIOL as another seed or a filter, but it didn't help.

• Countdown to PDC2008: Secrets Revealed

  Sep 05, 2008 at 2:30 PM

  Yet another small correction (if it matters): 'Hello, you've reached GAIOL's number. THAT'S G-A-I-O-L. I'm currently unavailable. Please try again using one of my other numbers." Sorry for multiple posts:)
  

• Countdown to PDC2008: Secrets Revealed

  Sep 05, 2008 at 1:49 PM

  OK, I'm really confused about the the name, but it's spelt like GAIOL. So the corrected text is 'Hello, you've reached GAIOL's number. G-A-I-O-L. I'm currently unavailable. Please try again using one of my other numbers."
  

• Countdown to PDC2008: Secrets Revealed

  Sep 05, 2008 at 1:31 PM

  Sorry, English is not my first language, so I might have missed something on the audio.
  It goes like: "Hello, you've reached Gail's number, GAIL. I'm currently unavaliable. Please try again on one of other numbers".
  Seed: 

  33550336

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