Man! Did you see TMyklebu's tripartitioning method using two for loops ( Read more... )

Ok, so as to explain my previous post:

I was sitting in my remarkably big office at my new job[1]. It was just about noon and I had opened up Thunderbird to ship off an email. I checked my in box and there was an invitation for the Google Code Jam Europe, the same evening. As mentioned in the post before the last one[2] I had nearly qualified for ( Read more... )

Happy Autistic Pride Day, Kistaro and other autists and aspies who might stuble by ( Read more... )

1. This and this made me quite depressed the last week. But LiveJournal isn't a place to lament about what makes you sad, so we move on ( Read more... )

So, I'm back. I've had half a night of good sleep and did round 2 of the TCO. I don't know why my hard problem failed. My medium worked, although, in the words of Pulp, it's ugly and it shouldn't be like that. I'll read up on the editorial to find out how to do it in a simpler way. The easy was amazingly trivial, though ( Read more... )

I havn't been updating because I've seemed to be suffering from a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde complex, meaning that by the time I've managed to think of a vile derision to upload I realize that 'oh, wait. That's just mean-spirited ( Read more... )

Most of the interesting people dropped out this round. R, W, R and P among others. I advanced though. Yeah?!

Update 1/2 year later: this is one of the places where I had written 'Yeah' instead of 'Yay'.

Third attempt at starting an entry tonight ( Read more... )

I'm for once in a good mood, so I better update my journal before it goes away.

I was in Boston a couple of weeks ago. That was fun. I kicked a few butts and got a nice diploma for it. And nVidia gave me this realy cool graphics card. Its not the one they lanced two days earlier and hadn't yet gone for sale, but its the model before that one. (I ( Read more... )

Okay, so last night there was the final online round of TopCoder Collegiate Challenge. So I stayed up to participate and qualified for the onsite semifinals in Boston. So I'm going to Boston pretty soon, if I manage to fill out my stupid American Pieces of Paper (TM). Hooeay!

"Let's lay waste to this century"