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Reverse-engineering the “Chronospatial Computer”

Reverse-engineering the program from “Chronospatial Computer”, day 17 of Advent of Code 2024.

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Solving “Bridge Repair” in 4ms with Python

Solving “Bridge Repair”, from day 7 of Advent of Code 2024, in 4ms with Python with a simple deductive algorithm.

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N queens problem

This article shows how to solve the N queens problem in 20 lines of code.

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(More) Animations from first principles

Create a zooming animation from first principles in Python. In 5 minutes. Kind of.

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TIL #064 – open recursion

Today I learned what open recursion is and how to leverage it.

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Minimax algorithm and alpha-beta pruning

This article will teach you about the minimax algorithm and alpha-beta pruning, from a beginner's perspective.

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On recursive functions and Kleene's approach

In this post I just ramble a bit through some mathematician's definition of what a recursive function is...

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