This article proposes an implementation of an ergonomic binary search algorithm implemented as a bidirectional generator.
This is a short account of how I wrote a program that solves all LQueens puzzles from LinkedIn automatically with Python.
In this article I explore functools.cmp_to_key and propose a possible implementation.
Today I learned that the hash of an integer is the integer itself, except for -1. The hash of -1 is -2.
Reverse-engineering the program from “Chronospatial Computer”, day 17 of Advent of Code 2024.
Solving “Bridge Repair”, from day 7 of Advent of Code 2024, in 4ms with Python with a simple deductive algorithm.
This article goes over the content I taught at the world's largest programming lesson that broke a Guinness World Record with 1668 students.
Explore unusual Python features to solve the problem of determining whether an expression is properly parenthesised.
How can you find the longest substring that contains only unique characters?
This tutorial shows how to use a simple genetic algorithm to deduce physics formulas.
Today I learned about the Damerau-Levenshtein distance used on strings in the field of genetics.
This article is an in-depth analysis of Python solutions to the “Sonar Sweep” problem, which is day 1 of Advent of Code 2021.
This article will teach you about the minimax algorithm and alpha-beta pruning, from a beginner's perspective.
Today I learned that the .join method in Python is a two-pass algorithm, and that's why joining a list comprehension is faster than a generator expression.
Today I learned about an algorithm that Python uses to sort out inheritance.
Alice and Bob are going to be locked away separately and their faith depends on their guessing random coin tosses!
