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, ...
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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...
Bored with a game, I wrote a solver
Today I am going to tell you about a game I got into a few weeks ago. It's kind of addictive: very simple, click-click, tap-tap, no need to think too much. All ...
“Blindsight”. A book review.
Some time ago I reviewed here a book called "The Time-Lapse Revolution", which turned out to be quite different from what I had expected, but in spite of that -...
“Gambit”. Book review
Artificial intelligence is a cool invention, as long as it doesn't get too carried away. And when it does, things can be very tricky. It's not too bad if it tel...
“Walking to Aldebaran”. Book review.
Actually a review of a portion of a book, as I didn't make it to the end. I let myself go at about 28%. The paperback is 95 pages long, so you could say I...
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...
‘Artemis’. Book review.
Andy Weir wrote "Artemis" on the success of "The Martian". I've been meaning to read it for quite some time, but was put off by the overwhelmingly unflattering ...
Black matter, or Schrödinger’s cat on steroids.
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger died in 1961. Even assuming the cat was a long-lived Siamese breed, the beast has been dead for at least 40 years. Joke...
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 ...
Undying Mercenaries: Machine World.
I didn't manage to finish the fourth part of "Undying Mercenaries". After quite a start, when McGill takes part in an exam for a higher position (a classic set-...
“Orders of Battle”. Recenzja książki.
Po czym poznać, że książka jest dobra? Można sprawdzać opinie na blogach i portalach książkowych. Można pytać znajomych albo fachowców od literatury. Można dużo...
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...
Reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits, again
A little bird told me that car insurance prices are going up again this year - both in Ireland and in other EU countries.
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...