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This is a short account of how I wrote a program that solves all LQueens puzzles from LinkedIn automatically with Python.

This article walks through the code used to animate a tree fractal.

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

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

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

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

This post gives you the code to mess around with "Tupper's self-referential formula", a formula that plots itself.

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