I updated my laptop, which runs the simple, lightweight Arch Linux distro. I did not note the low battery reading.

Here’s convincing proof we live in a Fallen World.

I felt pretty happy getting this wordle in 4 guesses, as you can see. But how good was my 4th guess?

Optimal Smurfing in English and Greek Catherine Chatzopoulos, 2008, University of Chicago, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

I found a PDF version of the paper.

A programming interview question from the Daily Coding Problem email list. Here’s a non-hand-wavy explanation of a way to solve this problem.

Daily Coding Problem: Problem #736 [Easy]

Given a complete binary tree, count the number of nodes in faster than O(n) time. Recall that a complete binary tree has every level filled except the last, and the nodes in the last level are filled starting from the left. “Complete” means: every level, except possibly the last, is completely filled, and all nodes in the last level are as far left as possible. It can have between 1 and 2h nodes at the last level h.

If you’re ever near Rapid City, SD, you should visit the Reptile Gardens.

I solved Wordle 959 without help, my streak is now 97. I see another opportunity to write a large regular expression that could get the answer.

Another programming interview question from the Daily Coding Problem email list. I received it as #1608.

Daily Coding Problem: Problem #1608 [Medium]

This problem was asked by Microsoft.

Write a program to determine how many distinct ways there are to create a max heap from a list of N given integers.

For example, if N = 3, and our integers are [1, 2, 3], there are two ways, shown below.

  3      3
 / \    / \
1   2  2   1

Repo for my code.

I’ve got an idea for Starship Troopers fan fiction. I’m giving it away, for free! You can have it!