I have made about 10 of these, trying different burner hole sizes and different cans. The best cans are Heineken beer - thicker and they have an out bulge that, if you cut along the edge of, gives you an insertion lip for the burner can. Best to use 2 Heineken cans though, the regular ones are a little too small and there's leakage between the cans. Priming the stove with a little alcohol under it does work. I like to heat it up a bit with a lighter, takes only 20 secs, and works well in the winter.
Isn't this a pared-down implementation of a Markov Chain?
Can you defined what you mean by "diverge?" You say "egyptated" is not related to the King James Bible at all. Umm...Egypt is mentioned heavily all throughout the old testament, especially in Exodus. How does "egyptated" diverge, exactly?
Hi Dominik, your stove looks good. You should have no problem to light it if you move to a better fuel than 70% isopropanol. You should have no problem finding a 95% or better fuel; try fondue fuel, denatured alcohol (sold as paint thinner) or gasline de-icer. The high water content in rubbing alcohol is sipping away all the heat so your stove can't stay warn enough to build a strong vapor pressure.
Yes, it's a Markov-Chain implementation.
When I say that Yould will diverge from the training text, I mean that no matter how well you train it, it will still produce a lot of junk. As you pointed out, "egyptated" is generated because the training saw the word "Egypt" many time and because it figured that adding "ed" to a prefix ending with "t" is a valid construction.
Nevertheless, "egyptated" is meaningless; its sound is close to some words from the KJB but its meaning, and it has basically none, is really far anyting in the KJB. When Arne suggests using Yould to find names related to a book, I just want to warn him that most words generated by Yould will just be a bunch of non-sense.
Reminds me of one of my old projects: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/projects/giveitaname/
Your generator is pretty good too. Can you tell us more on how it works?
I do see unrolling in gcc 4.2.2, using the code shown above (but using "%d %d", and two calls to f). gcc 3.2.3 does not unroll. Strangely, the best results were the older version of gcc with iteration:
- tail.c, with gcc-4.2.2: 0.400s
- iter.c, with gcc-4.2.2: 1.795s
- tail.c, with gcc-3.2.3: 2.153s
- iter.c, with gcc-3.2.3: 0.215s
It looks like someone implemented an optimization for tail recursion between the two versions; however, I don't understand how iter.c could be that much worse in the newer version of the compiler, so it's possible I made an error somewhere.
Hey,
For some reason whenever i want to light the stove it wont light up, I dont know what the deal is. Its my First time making a stove. Can it be that my jetz are too big? can it be that my Hole on the top is too big/small?
what i do is: ( i use 70% Isopropyl Rubbing alcohol) I poor some of my Fuel on a Tuna fish top. i place the stove ontop, put the Quater on the top of the stove and light it up. after a few seconds ( 5-10 ) the fire dies and it stopped.? any help? ( jets are 3 mm's the hole on top is 7 mm's ) here a pic: http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture004largehv5.jpg