By Zed A. Shaw Over the years I’ve tried my best to support Microsoft Windows in my courses because 95% of the world uses Windows. If I want everyone to take my courses then I have to support the operating … Read more
This morning, I came accross Cameron Sun’s Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe on HN. However, the comments were disappointing, with people proposing probabilistic models, linear programming, minimax algorithms, and heuristic evaluations to develop AI approaches for the game, none of which quite correct. … Read more
A graph is a ubiquitous data structure used in computer science that consists of nodes (or vertices) and edges between pairs of nodes to capture objects and their relations. The minimum cut problem (often referred to as “min-cut”) is a … Read more
by Philippe OlivierCreated 2024-03-27 Domino Fit is a domino tiling game, where you have to place dominoes on a board in such a way that the sum of the dots must match row and column numbers. There are two dominoes: … Read more
In Super Smash Bros tournaments, there’s occasionally an event called a crew battle. (They show up in other fighting games too, but I mostly watch Smash.) Two teams of players compete in a series of 1v1 matches. For the first … Read more
Abstract:Although many large language models (LLMs) have been trained to refuse harmful requests, they are still vulnerable to jailbreaking attacks, which rewrite the original prompt to conceal its harmful intent. In this paper, we propose a new method for defending … Read more
An ‘.onion’ link was posted on Reddit back in June 2020 with a suspected riddle. It got me curious. Some random characters and a sentence: “How deep can you enter?” Within the page source-code a comment was present with a … Read more
check ~expected: ( “g0(a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, k, l, m, n, o, p)”, [ “g0(F(), b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, k, l, m, n, o, p) = g1(b, c, d, e, f, … Read more
by Neil Wilson • 17 Jan 2024 This is part 3 of a 3-part series where we solve the Dining Philosophers concurrency problem using just UNIX, systemd and some bash scripting! In part 2 we created multiple philosophers using separate … Read more
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 # o,y,p,b,g from sympy import * ow,oh,yw,yh,pw,ph,bw,bh,gw,gh = symbols(‘o_w o_h y_w y_h p_w … Read more