Comments on: Let's invent a new game! http://trilema.com/2014/lets-invent-a-new-game/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:53:14 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2014/lets-invent-a-new-game/#comment-98160 Mircea Popescu Thu, 20 Feb 2014 06:10:33 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=52831#comment-98160 @<b>ESRogs</b> In principle particular variants of the game could played which counted both fad and fade or forced you to pick one. I would guess in all meaningful variants xfade would be legitimately read as fade, so basically you're allowed to select any substring that's a word out of your string. Obviously this is more exploratory than set in stone, some practice'd be required to refine the best ruleset for whatever circumstance. @ESRogs In principle particular variants of the game could played which counted both fad and fade or forced you to pick one. I would guess in all meaningful variants xfade would be legitimately read as fade, so basically you're allowed to select any substring that's a word out of your string.

Obviously this is more exploratory than set in stone, some practice'd be required to refine the best ruleset for whatever circumstance.

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2014/lets-invent-a-new-game/#comment-98159 Mircea Popescu Thu, 20 Feb 2014 04:28:57 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=52831#comment-98159 Bugpowder> Semi-rational mutagenesis Bugpowder> mircea_popescu: I played that game quite a bit in grad school. Bugpowder> For example http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/16/e78 mircea_popescu> Bugpowder o hey so it has a name and everything ? mircea_popescu> asciilifeform check it out Bugpowder> Well, it's not exactly the same game but similar enough Bugpowder> You use degenerate PCR primers to evolve and screen fluorescent protein genes mircea_popescu> shorter alphabet basicall ? Bugpowder> trying to find an new one that matches Bugpowder> well... 4 characters mircea_popescu> shorter alphabet / longer verses. Bugpowder> but you mutate base on the codons * punkman1 has quit (Ping timeout: 272 seconds) Bugpowder> so 3^3 'letters' mircea_popescu> interesting Bugpowder> since you need 3 to actually code an amino acid. * punkman (~punkman@unaffiliated/punkman) has joined #bitcoin-assets mircea_popescu> but isn't it 3^4 then ? Bugpowder> uhhh Bugpowder> 4^3 Bugpowder> yeah mircea_popescu> right Bugpowder> though some represent the same letter Bugpowder> http://dps.plants.ox.ac.uk/langdalelab/protocols/PCR/degenerate_primer.pdf Bugpowder> So you can specify ATGC mircea_popescu> well cool! http://btcbase.org/log/?date=20-02-2014#518259 Meta-problem solved :) Bugpowder> Semi-rational mutagenesis
Bugpowder> mircea_popescu: I played that game quite a bit in grad school.
Bugpowder> For example http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/16/e78
mircea_popescu> Bugpowder o hey so it has a name and everything ?
mircea_popescu> asciilifeform check it out
Bugpowder> Well, it's not exactly the same game but similar enough
Bugpowder> You use degenerate PCR primers to evolve and screen fluorescent protein genes
mircea_popescu> shorter alphabet basicall ?
Bugpowder> trying to find an new one that matches
Bugpowder> well... 4 characters
mircea_popescu> shorter alphabet / longer verses.
Bugpowder> but you mutate base on the codons
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Bugpowder> so 3^3 'letters'
mircea_popescu> interesting
Bugpowder> since you need 3 to actually code an amino acid.
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mircea_popescu> but isn't it 3^4 then ?
Bugpowder> uhhh
Bugpowder> 4^3
Bugpowder> yeah
mircea_popescu> right
Bugpowder> though some represent the same letter
Bugpowder> http://dps.plants.ox.ac.uk/langdalelab/protocols/PCR/degenerate_primer.pdf
Bugpowder> So you can specify ATGC
mircea_popescu> well cool!

http://btcbase.org/log/?date=20-02-2014#518259

Meta-problem solved :)

]]> By: Bugpowder http://trilema.com/2014/lets-invent-a-new-game/#comment-98158 Bugpowder Thu, 20 Feb 2014 04:24:10 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=52831#comment-98158 Semi-rational mutagenesis. http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/16/e78 Semi-rational mutagenesis.

http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/16/e78

]]> By: ESRogs http://trilema.com/2014/lets-invent-a-new-game/#comment-98157 ESRogs Thu, 20 Feb 2014 04:22:02 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=52831#comment-98157 I'm not sure I understand the rules. Are there spaces? Let's say the dictionary is English words, and I read in "fad", and the next letter is 'e' and I read that too. Do I get points after 'fad' (since that is a word), and also after I read in the 'e' (since 'fade' is a word)? What if there was an 'x' in front -- do I still get points after I've read in "xfad" because a suffix of what I've read is a word? I'm not sure I understand the rules. Are there spaces?

Let's say the dictionary is English words, and I read in "fad", and the next letter is 'e' and I read that too. Do I get points after 'fad' (since that is a word), and also after I read in the 'e' (since 'fade' is a word)?

What if there was an 'x' in front -- do I still get points after I've read in "xfad" because a suffix of what I've read is a word?

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