6 posts tagged 'programming'

2026

Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: A Book Review

There has been a lot of talk recently about OpenClaw, Moltbook and "sentient" (?) behaviour. So this is a good time to plug one of my favourite books ever.

I first came across "Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds" around 15 years ago when I borrowed it …

2007

2006

Introduction to Recursion

This article used to be 6 part series of articles on recursion that I had on my old blog. I have combined the series into a single article and posted it here. This article is still dated for the 12th of April, 2008, which is when I originally posted this …

2005

3-5-7 (Part 2)

I wrote about the board game 3-5-7 in my previous post.

I wrote this program to as an experiment in AI. A simple board game seemed to be a good way to start. The program implements the minimax algorithm for determining the best move.

3-5-7 is a simple game, so …

2005

3-5-7

3-5-7 is a simple two player board game. There are three rows of coins. The first row has three coins, the second has five and the last row has seven. A player can take any number of coins from one particular row. The player to take the last coin on …

2004

Google Code Jam 2004

Google Code Jam 2004 - The Google Code Jam starts in a few days time.

Google is looking for engineers with the programming skill to rewrite the world's information infrastructure. The Google Code Jam 2004 is one way we hope to find them. While we don't impose arbitrary deadlines on our …