Boiledbeans

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October 2010

Starcraft

—devadutta @ 23:59

What is happening here?

These pictures were taken in totally different places.

This post is an acid test for AutoRaja :)

P.S: Please note that all posts will be manually screened after AutoRaja does its job

Cracked by: udupendra, shrik, Bharath, raklodramA, SV, jowens, Goyal, username, Ananth, krudebox, Logik, Dibyo, Rogi, Manish Achuth, AmK, Keerthi Kiran M, kallukudian, Niranjan G, Vinay Hegde, Thejas V R, N@ngA, Rahul Rajeev and dineshk

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Observatories shoot a laser to the sky to create a fake star. They then focus on the laser to calibrate their telescopes. This results in images with stunning clarity.


Behold the auto correction robot: AutoRaja!

—devadutta @ 01:41

We have some really exciting news! We have successfully deployed a robot called “AutoRaja” on our servers which automatically moderates questions at the end of 3 days, assigns points and posts the answer!

AutoRaja uses a very sophisticated fuzzy search method to detect correct answers and assign points! (It is based on the Bitap algorithm, no less!)

Thanks to AutoRaja, from now on,

  • Scores will be up to date
  • Medals will be assigned on time and
  • Most importantly, answers come out automatically, so you dont have to wait!

Like all robots, AutoRaja can not yet replace humans, so we will review points assigned manually too. Until we do the review, you can see a note left by AutoRaja stating that the post was modded by it and not by humans. So, in case there is a discrepancy in scores, you know why.

Let us know what you think!

Also, we can make this project open source, if we get at least 50 comments on this post asking us to do it. Cleaning up code to release level is hard work :)


Monday, October 11, 2010

2b|^2b

—srikanth @ 23:59

What is this all about?

Cracked by: udupendra, Logik, Ananth, shrik, Anjul, Bharath, krudebox, Thejas V R, Dibyo, username, mankuTimma, kallukudian, Rogi, shrey, akhi, N@ngA, Sumanth Patlolla, Raghuvansh, byslexia, dineshk, AmK and Manish Achuth

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This is a guide to building logic gates, and other similar constructs, in MineCraft! This pastime is becoming quite serious of late, with people even going so far as to attempt building complete computers in MineCraft.


Sunday, October 10, 2010

In the shadow of the pipe...

—srikanth @ 23:59

: :: : X

Solve for X.

PS: Happy binary 42 day everyone.

Cracked by: udupendra, username, Logik, shrik, shrey, Mikey, Ananth, Aparna, Goyal, Rogi, Bharath, AmK, mankuTimma, Thejas V R, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, dineshk, varuns88, v.chandrashekar, jowens and byslexia


Saturday, October 9, 2010

Estoy en su base, la exploración de su lugar

—devadutta @ 23:59

Who connects

See the clouds in 3. KTHX

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Goyal, Bharath, krudebox, Dibyo, Shwetha Maiya, username, byslexia, nishansolo, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Logik, Ananth, Rahul Rajeev, udupendra, Anjul, Rogi, kallukudian, Thejas V R, N@ngA and dineshk

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Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan connects.


Friday, October 8, 2010

Boiledbeans has .31 milli units of this

—devadutta @ 23:59

What “official” unit of measurement is named after this guy and what is it used to measure?

Although he needs no introduction, he played this role

Very sorry for the delayed post folks.

Cracked by: jowens, Dibyo, Logik, Rogi, byslexia, Harsh, Rahul Rajeev, Sumanth Patlolla, shrey, N@ngA, Vinay Hegde, shrik, Aparna, Ananth, v.chandrashekar, Manish Achuth, krudebox, SV, Bharath, Thejas V R, dineshk, username, Shwetha Maiya, nishansolo, udupendra, Mikey and AmK

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Quoting Shwetha Maiya


Thursday, October 7, 2010

A moment of silence.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify:

Cracked by: jowens, Ananth, dineshk, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, SV, shrik, Rogi, v.chandrashekar, N@ngA, Goyal, krudebox, Thejas V R, Rahul Rajeev, Logik, udupendra, Dibyo, username, kallukudian, byslexia, Vinay Hegde, shenoyvarun86 and Shwetha Maiya

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Quoting Shwetha Maiya


Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Comeback King

—devadutta @ 21:21

What did he “win” ten years ago and What did he **win **now?

He did this ten years ago to “win” that “award”:

Yes, that frog is flying.

Cracked by: Hariprasad Kulkarni, Vivek, Kaustubh, ElatedSipun010, udupendra, raklodramA, Rahulk, shrik, Dibyo, Goyal, Nanda, madhur, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Logik, Ananth, jowens, username, dineshk, Vardhan Shenoy, Vardhan Shenoy, Bharath, byslexia, krudebox, Shwetha Maiya, v.chandrashekar, bluegem4, N@ngA, Sumanth Patlolla, kallukudian, Anonymous, Rahul Rajeev, panrod, Mo and Thejas V R

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Andre Geim who won an Ig Noble prize in 2010 for his research involving levitating frogs, won the 2010 Nobel prize for physics. How awesome is that?


Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Shine on?

—srikanth @ 23:59

What is this?

Cracked by: krudebox, username, Ananth, Rogi, Manish Achuth, jowens, udupendra, raklodramA, v.chandrashekar, shrik, Rahulk, dineshk, Bharath, Shwetha Maiya, N@ngA, kallukudian and Rahul Rajeev


Monday, October 4, 2010

It is dark in here

—devadutta @ 23:59

Simple one for the day. What is this? What is blocked out in red?

About t-shirts:

No, we have not forgotten about them :)

They are yet to be shipped out, so please hold on for a bit. We will put a note here when they are sent out. They should go out within the next 15 days.

If you want to BUY a t-shirt, let us know at [email protected] within the next few days.

Cracked by: udupendra, Logik, username, SV, Ananth, Rogi, jowens, dineshk, Mikey, Sumanth Patlolla, Goyal, Dibyo, Rahul Rajeev, Anirudh Patil, kallukudian, krudebox, shrik, Manish Achuth, Rahulk, Bharath, prasanth, bluegem4, bluegem4, Thejas V R, N@ngA, Vinay Hegde, Raghuvansh, raklodramA, ElatedSipun010, v.chandrashekar, madhur, Vardhan Shenoy and Shwetha Maiya

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Colossal Cave, the first ever adventure game for the computer.