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Krofatter Egon og Hjælpepakken — 3
Is this not making any sense to you? You are not alone. If you don’t know what’s going on, or why I write in Danish, start here. Pitstop på Pøt Mølle Næste morgen, lidt blårøjet, for der var røget mange øl ned over natten, kørte Egon nordpå mod Hammel.
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Book update: Pointers in C and and Computational Thinking
So, my C pointers book apparently has a cover now. Before you complain, I don’t write the titles (although I don’t disagree with the title for this book), nor the subtitles (where I do for this one).
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Krofatter Egon og Hjælpepakken — 2
Is this not making any sense to you? You are not alone. If you don’t know what’s going on, or why I write in Danish, start here. En ubehagelig opgave Rådsmedlemmerne steg ud af deres respektive biler og begyndte at gå imod Østbjerg Kros hoveddør i afmålte skridt, der garanterede at de ville ankomme nøjagtigt fem minutter i syv, altså fem minutter før de skulle møde, og derfor præcist til tiden.
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Krofatter Egon og Hjælpepakken — 1
This post will mostly be written in Danish, and there is a reason for that. You see, at our weekly Call of Cthulhu game, I accidentally used the plural word for “innkeeper”.
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Chinese Remainder in Go
In between exams, I plan to learn Go in January. I have a book I plan to follow, but today I wanted to get started by just jumping into it, so I picked the Chinese Remainder Theorem we used for 2020’s Advent of Code Day 13.
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Advent of Code 2020 — day 24 remade
I wanted to get back to yesterday’s puzzle, and I have a little time before I need to run off… Yes, I was fed up with manual parsing of strings so decided to do it using the re module for once.
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Advent of Code 2020 — day 25
On the last day of Christmas AoC gave to me an encryption problem, that is really a modular arithmetic problem. If you decode the description—that is more cryptic than the mathematics—you find that we need to find secret keys by solving equations
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Advent of Code 2020 — days 23 and 24
Unexpectedly, I was allowed to play today—it is Christmas, after all—as long as I didn’t spend too much time at the computer. So I hurried up and solved today’s and yesterday’s puzzles quickly.
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Advent of Code 2020 — day 22
This will be the last post I write before New Year. We have vacation in the house from tomorrow, and I won’t be hacking when I am supposed to be social—I am told.
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Advent of Code 2020 — days 20 and 21
Day 20: Jurassic Jigsaw Day 20 we get tiles for a puzzle, and we have to work out the puzzle from them. The tiles can be rotated or flipped, but we can connect them by identifying how edges match.
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