Facebook hacker cup: Power Overwhelming
You are to inflict maximum damage to the zerg army. There are two types of units - Warrior and Shield. Warriors do damage every second, while a shield protects your entire army for one second.…
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Gotcha with fitness function design
Typically, a genetic algorithm works by the notion of maximizing the fitness. Consider a function y=x, which is to be minimized in the interval [−5,5]. One approach is use 1x as…
Facebook hacker cup: Geometric approach to double squares problem
Given an integer N, we need to find the number of integral pairs (x,y)∣x2+y2=N, N∈[0,2147483647], with a maximum of 100 such numbers in a file.…
Kleiber's Law
Last week, I happened to read about Kleiber’s law while browsing through literature on natural evolution. The implications are really fascinating. It establishes a relationship between mass and metabolism as: \(metabolism = mass^{\frac{…
Predicting hand position on the keyboard by observing random text
Today, I happened to type some random text and noticed interesting. This is a random sample of what i typed: gh jgh jg hjg hjg hjg hjg hjg hkg hjg hg jg hjg hjg hg…