Vierkantor @Vierkantor@mastodon.vierkantor.com

picnic, or picture nicholas,

@operand oof, thanks for the warning. it is indeed cursed and must be abolished

@faho Ah, sorry for misunderstanding your problem. In fact, I'm in the Theoretical Computer Science group of the university, so feel free to run away from any and all of my suggestions! :)

@faho Is this a correct understanding of your problem: you have a regex and a string, and you want to know a (minimal?) set of insertions and deletions in the string to make it match the regex.

I know solutions to the above exist for context-free grammars (e.g. error-correcting parser combinators), so one approach would be to write a context-free grammar for your regex, then run an error-correcting parser.

@operand hmm, i'm now 75% convinced to actually switch my locale to en_BE. if it had ISO 8601 date format, then 99% convinced

With some tweaks to the sensitivity, you can talk over the transmission and it will still arrive intact!

Update on FFT shenanigans: I can now send data through audio. (Frequency-shift keyed Manchester code: low-high is 1, high-low is 0. In the spectrogram, the range for low and high data is marked by the background colours. The green bar on the left indicates the pre-clock interval, the red bar is waiting for the clock and the blue bar is the bit being received.)

This is what you get when you FFT the first couple of kilobytes of the pdflatex executable.

A cool graphic I produced with FFT