Tag: programming

All the articles with the tag "programming".

• How likely are you to beat the Raven?

  7 Jun, 2026

  Estimating the probability of winning Haba's First Orchard game.

• Magic Squares and Cubes

  13 Dec, 2025

  A collection of algorithms, including a vectorized version of Kociemba's two-phase algorithm, for solving Rubik's cubes.

• Of LLMs and other demons

  16 Nov, 2025

  LLMs are fantastic beasts, but hyperbole and acrobatic mental leaps have become the norm when people talk about them. My goal in this thinking out loud is to pose and try to answer some questions that will hopefully help me have more grounded discussions. These questions range from What are there useful for? to Are they good learning companions? to Are they going to kill us?

• Death, taxes and optimization

  23 Sep, 2025

  Modelling Rushhour 🚗 🚚 as an optimization problem.