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The 538 Riddler: The Neurotic Shooter
What are the chances that I will write two blog posts only a week apart? Well, last week’s post was a lot of fun (for me) so I decided to do another one. In that post, I wrote some code to answer...
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The 538 Riddler: River Crossing
Well, the answer was published to last week’s Riddler, and I was right. I’m two-for-two so far, so I might as well keep going. This week’s Riddler is a real fun one because I got to do some basic...
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Quick Follow-up to River Crossing
Thanks to commenter Alex Mahdavi who wrote: Building on your Bridg-it game, I think of this problem in terms of routes. Either there will be a successful route across the river, or there won’t. Now...
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The 538 Riddler: Secret Election
Well, I’m 3-for-3 so far in finding answers to the 538 Riddler and for last week’s answer I got another shoutout from Ollie. This week’s Riddler concerns a secret cabal of politicians who decide to...
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Tweaking the Secret Election code
While waiting to see the results of this week’s Riddler, I started thinking about my solution to the problem. In my last post, I outlined two ways of solving the problem: one by hand on paper, and one...
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Follow up to Duck vs. Dog
Okay, well, my luck has officially run out. I was definitely, most certainly wrong wrong wrong about how much faster the dog could travel and still allow the duck to escape. Thanks once again to...
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The 538 Riddler: Hot New Game Show
Hello again, faithful reader(s). Happily my solution to last week’s Riddler turned out to be correct once again, although I didn’t get to write much interesting code for it. This week’s Riddler on the...
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The 538 Riddler: Free Throw Grannies
Hello, and welcome to this week’s look at the 538 Riddler. Last week concerned optimal strategy for a (very) simple game show, and happily my answer was correct. This week’s Riddler concerns free...
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Conducting Technical Interviews, Part II: The Whiteboard
Last week I shared some thoughts about interviewing software engineers and some basic do’s and don’t’s for the interviewer. In this post I will concentrate on one of the more recently controversial...
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The 538 Riddler:New Casino Game
Welcome to my weekly look at 538’s The Riddler. Happily my answer to last week’s riddle proved to be correct once again, and I was happy to see some commenters who came to the same conclusions. Thanks...
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