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Entering the Battlesnake arena

Development

Entering the Battlesnake arena

It's an online game where programs play against each other. My program needs survival strategies!

· 15 minutes reading time
Text scrambler

Development

Text scrambler

A text is still readable if you re-arrange the letters of every word, but leave the first and last character in place.

· 5 minutes reading time
The Game of Fifteen

Development

The Game of Fifteen

A playable online game. Not every possible starting position is solvable, so we have to take special care.

· 3 minutes reading time
Working with Rust's num-bigint

Development

Working with Rust's num-bigint

Rust is my new programming language project. A problem called for big integers, so my fight with the crate num-bigint began.

· 4 minutes reading time
The Monty-Hall-Problem

Math

The Monty-Hall-Problem

The problem is a brain-teaser, in the form of a probability puzzle. It has sparked endless debate. See the solution with a simulator.

· 5 minutes reading time
The pandemic is not a great leveller

Life

The pandemic is not a great leveller

What the real status quo is and what needs to be done to change that.

· 2 minutes reading time