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Today I spent a bunch of time preparing for a really hard problem that ended up being a very very simple problem.
My first thought on seeing this was, if we're being honest, "shit I hate bin packing." But such is life, so my second thought was "I wonder how many of these are just impossible?" That is, how many have too many filled squares for the dimension of the grid, and so would be impossible t

6 views Today I spent a bunch of time preparing for a really hard problem that ended up being a very very simple problem. My first thought on seeing this was, if we're being honest, "shit I hate bin packing." But such is life, so my second thought was "I wonder how many of these are just impossible?" That is, how many have too many filled squares for the dimension of the grid, and so would be impossible t

It’s 3am in #Paris, do you know where your children are?
One of mine is right here, on this tiny couch in our Airbnb, reading One Punch Man in English and Japanese at the same time to learn Japanese.
#Jetlag is a helluva drug.
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5 views It’s 3am in #Paris, do you know where your children are? One of mine is right here, on this tiny couch in our Airbnb, reading One Punch Man in English and Japanese at the same time to learn Japanese. #Jetlag is a helluva drug. #travel

After the last few days of difficult puzzles, today was a breath of fresh air.
Counting paths through a DAG is a classic memoizable recursive puzzle. Part 1 was just that.
Part 2 adds two new variables to track, but you just add them to the memoized parameters (Python's `@cache` operator makes that easy) and keep do the same thing, with the addition of updating the flags if you're on either the `

1 views After the last few days of difficult puzzles, today was a breath of fresh air. Counting paths through a DAG is a classic memoizable recursive puzzle. Part 1 was just that. Part 2 adds two new variables to track, but you just add them to the memoized parameters (Python's `@cache` operator makes that easy) and keep do the same thing, with the addition of updating the flags if you're on either the `

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Recent: 9 text · 3 image · 0 video.

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🔥 Top post Today I spent a bunch of time preparing for a really hard problem that ended up being a very very simple problem. My first thought on seeing this was, if we're being honest, "shit I hate bin packing." But such is life, so my second thought was "I wonder how many of these are jus… ★ 6

New post my blog about Anthropic, the Pentagon, and the future of autonomous, #AI powered weapons. I don’t know if this is happening everywhere, but in my area Ace of Base is showing up as overhead music in a lot of stores and I am absolutely here for it. ★ 1 Does this work? I’m old enough to remember paying hundreds for these, too.

It’s 3am in #Paris, do you know where your children are? One of mine is right here, on this tiny couch in our Airbnb, reading One Punch Man in English and Japanese at the same time to learn Japanese. #Jetlag is a helluva drug. #travel ★ 5 Gracias Air France por cancelar el vuelo directo y cómodo de mi familia a París pocas horas antes de que saliéramos. Ahora me toca pasar la tarde resolviendo el problema del viajante por teléfono con algún pobre agente de servicio al clien… I suppose I should link to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lyu1KKwC74 I'm not sure why, but as I've gotten older The Verve's "Bitter Sweet Symphony" has really grown on me. #music ★ 2 #AdventOfCode2025 was not the best year for #AdventOfCode. The puzzles were mostly simple except for one part two that was incredibly hard, and (perhaps because of the shorter format) we missed some of our favorites: no interpreters, no Ch… ★ 5

After the last few days of difficult puzzles, today was a breath of fresh air. Counting paths through a DAG is a classic memoizable recursive puzzle. Part 1 was just that. Part 2 adds two new variables to track, but you just add them to t… ★ 1 "To restore decorum and professionalism to the Department’s written work products and abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program, the Department is returning to Times New Roman as its standard typeface" - Marco Rubio More proof that we are …

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sfba.social

A the SF Bay Area server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.

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Nov 2022

Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

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🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.

👁️Averages 3 views per post.

📤Posts about 1× per week.

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66/100

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89%

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Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Engagement (~2.8% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
Established account (3+ years old).

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Software engineer, posting mostly about code, politics, and languages. “Recuerde que la ley no lo protege, protéjase usted.”

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