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I think that's actually just an example of either ask culture or guess culture, depending on the context.

If the friend should only say yes if they really want to, then that's ask culture.

If the friend should feel obligated to say yes, then that's guess culture.

The only difference here is that the request is worded differently (as a statement rather than as a question), which is simply close friends adopting their own language conventions, a slightly-related but independent concept.


I admire your dedication! Thank you for sacrificing 38 minutes of screen time for a noble cause.


Update: I added a new algorithm, and I think it might be impossible to crash the ship now.

Let me know if you can still reproduce the bug!


Max speed: 148.7 Max height: 3998 Flips: 34

Perfect landing. :)


Yep, it lands safely now!


Update: I improved the algorithm.

The autopilot now scores a "perfect landing" almost every single time, it lands very noticeably faster, and the code no longer contains a complicated, trial-by-error formula!

I got my first 103+ point landing! (It does this about half the time now)

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1570168/224399420-...


Oh that sounds like fun, I would definitely play that. You should suggest it to the developer who made the game!

https://github.com/ehmorris/lunar-lander/issues

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35032506



Oh yeah, the author of the game said he made use of a similar tutorial:

http://students.cs.ucl.ac.uk/schoolslab/projects/HT5/

from the readme here: https://github.com/ehmorris/lunar-lander


The art collective MSCHF did something similar and slightly more dystopian: https://childrenscrusade.com/


Thanks! Yeah it's just (1) rotate to follow the trajectory line and (2) slow down once you get close to the bottom.


oh yeah definitely. Left as an exercise for the reader??

(accepting PRs!)


Actually, I think my new algorithm fixes this -- and without any dedicated "swaying" edge case!


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