I beat everybody today ( Read more... )

I may be the only person in the history of the world to encounter a scenario where a factor of O(\alpha(n)) was of practical significance. \alpha(n), of course, being the inverse Ackermann function ( Read more... )

Today I mailed a box of Glosette chocolate coated raisins from Toronto to Calgary.

Cost of Glosettes: $0.75 + tax
Cost of express postage: $8.70 + tax

I now have a tracking number for the Glosettes. Sweet.

And yes, they have Glosettes in Calgary.

Google, here I come!

This is pretty amusing so far (I'm about 2% of the way down the page).

http://www.thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com/

Edited: okay, so it turns out E was easy too, and the problem description was just bad. Argh.

Man, I am so sick of this. I'm not learning anything, I'm not doing anything. I'm just writing ( Read more... )

I competed in the Internet Problem Solving Contest this morning and placed 19th. I guess that's not bad, considering I was competing individually, but I had hoped for top 10. I should have been able to get A2, which would've done the job. Oh well -- next year. It's my first time trying this contest, and I was quite pleased at how interesting ( Read more... )

So I skipped breakfast and went straight to my office so I could be somewhere with Internet access ASAP. Now I'm hungry.

This was a rare SRM that I came close to winning, and therefore a perfect time to rant. In spite of having to go back and resubmit my 250 because of a really bad mistake, I ended up being the first to submit all three problems. After racing through the 500 and 1000 (481 and 715 points respectively), I was pretty excited at my huge lead. I ( Read more... )