Entries from October 2010

Sunday, October 31st, 2010

Halloween

I enjoyed Halloween as a kid, walking all over the neighborhood filling pillowcases upon pillowcases with the good (candy and coins) and the bad (fruit or toothbrush, which prompted retaliation as I grew older). In college, the holiday lost its allure as going to gatherings of costumed drunk people whether it be in the student […]

Friday, October 22nd, 2010

Project Euler Problems #18, #19, #20 and #67

Problem #18, find the greatest sum of numbers along a path in a triangle of numbers, looks like a standard tree search problem. However, there’s a note at the bottom stating a brute force method won’t work for a harder/bigger version in problem #67. So I decided to skip the exercise of writing the tree […]

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

Famous Board Games Photo

My wife works at Kids In Motion and a few years ago I threw together their website including some photos she had taken. One of them was a cropped version of this image: The site doesn’t get much traffic, but I recently started experimenting with Google AdWords and Analytics for my own site and wondered […]