Prime walks

Like any average guy in his late 40s, anticipating the upcomming spring, I get an urge to write another random walk algorithm. No fooling Mother Nature, folks, ...

Recursion, cache, speed

Recently, a friend sent me a piece of Python trivia, namely how to use cache memory in Python and how using cache memory affects the speed of your code. A cache...

TKL

I have always been tempted to get a TKL keyboard, but somehow never had the impulse to do so. Some time ago, however, one of my old, worn-out keyboards went int...

52 and counting

I recently reached 52 litres of donated blood. This time the event took place in Clane, a small but picturesque town some 15 minutes drive from home. I arrived ...

Economical mumbo-jumbo

Whilst browsing the Internet I recently ran into an interesting (and probably totally unreallistic) idea: universities should be free from charge for all studen...

0, 1, 8, 144 (EN)

While surfing the Internet I recently found an interesting (although completely incomprehensible) proof of a conjecture stating that 0, 1, 8 and 144 are the onl...

Sh*t happens

  As Confucius used to say, shit happens. He was a smart lad so there is no point not to believe him. Shit that happens to happen is usually a bad shit. Mo...