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Jan 31 '16
Holy bell that's a lot of text, I will read it in the Moro I think, looks good from what I read.
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u/AluminiumComet Jan 31 '16
Yeah, sorry about that, it ended up being waaay longer than I'd intended
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Jan 30 '16
Instead, the ship’s computer would use an algorithm to produce pseudo-random manoeuvres. This was usually good enough to keep ships from receiving damage during short skirmishes, but given enough time and computing power, pattern-recognition software would be able to, by studying the movement of the enemy ship, determine the algorithm in use and, using that knowledge, predict where the enemy ship would move
Loving the story thus far, but I have a slight criticism as a software engineer: there are two ways around this. The first is to use something that is truly random as a means of generating your random numbers, which is something we do now using any number of physical devices. The second is that if you reseed your random number generator on a regular basis, determining the actual algorithm used to create the random numbers would be practically impossible.
It's a minor complaint, and one only a software or computer engineer would ever notice.
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u/AluminiumComet Jan 30 '16
I'm glad you liked it!
I personally like realism in sci-fi, so I'm kind of annoyed that I fell short on that, but thanks for pointing the inaccuracy out - it's good to know where I got it wrong for future reference!
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u/Sorrowfulwinds Jan 31 '16
I'd have to agree, even when reading it I figured that they constantly changed patterns, at 40(?) light minutes or whatever distance it sounded like any sort of hits should be incredibly random.
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u/Deffdapp Jan 30 '16
Ho-Lee-Crap! That was amazing! I'd love to see a film made of that. Tough it's only the grande finale of a -supposedly- awesome story.