Transformer by Nick Lane From the renowned biochemist and author of The Vital Question, an illuminating inquiry into the Krebs cycle and the origins of life. “Nick Lane’s exploration of the building blocks that underlie life’s big fundamental questions—the origin of life itself, aging, and disease—have shaped my thinking ... As Nick Lane tells it in his book “Transformer”, a biological cell is comparable to a big city: there are structures like buildings, there are pathways and flows, conveyer belts, machinery. One single cell undergoes one billion transformations a second.
Dough by Richard Bertinet Baking bread from dough involves the best kind of kitchen alchemy, for the possibilities to be conjured from the four ingredients of flour, water, yeast and salt are truly endless. Building on five easy recipes for basic doughs, Bertinet shows how even a beginner can achieve truly impressive ... Like many others I picked up bread making during the pandemic lockdown. It turned out to be a fun activity. I eventually landed on Richard Bertinet’s youtube video explaining dough handling.
A prison has $n$ cells with all cell doors shut initially.
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How many trailing zeros are in $n!$.
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Down to Earth, Politics in the New Climatic Regime by Bruno Latour The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive deregulation, and conversion of the dream of globalization into a nightmare for most people. What holds these three ... I understand how we got here. It’s the universal desire to live in Cockaigne Cockaigne, the land of milk and honey. . Some of us live in Cockaigne. We’re busy protecting it, building walls and borders to keep the ones not in it out. We do that because we know Cockaigne as it stands doesn’t scale to everybody. The process of creating it has left a lot of people out, has created a lot of damage and destroyed the planet, forcing those not in the protective bubble of Cockaigne to deal with the consequences. We’re also in denial about our ability to keep this protective bubble up and how much suffering building Cockaigne has caused. In his book “Down to Earth” Bruno Latour French philosopher Bruno Latour died in October, 2022. strongly urges us to reconsider this fantasy, to step out of Cockaigne and come back down to Earth. In 140 pages and without using philosophical jargon Latour explains how we got into this mess and he tries to help us find a way out.
Points on circle.
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Exercise ‘Fibolucci’ from ‘Kaldewaij. Programming, The Derivation of Algorithms . Prentice Hall, 1990’.
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Counting inversions is the topic of the problem in this note.
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Integer equations and multisets are the topics of the problem.
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Recurrence relations and modulo arithmetic are the topics of the problem in this note.
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Four people begin on the same side of a bridge. You must send them across to the other side in the fastest time possible. It is night. There is one flashlight. A maximum of two people can cross at a time. Any party who crosses, either one or two people, must have the flashlight to see.
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The Dutch National Flag Problem from ‘Kaldewaij. Programming, The Derivation of Algorithms . Prentice Hall, 1990’.
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Fast Fourier Transform and using it to speed up polynomial multiplication is the topic of the two problems in this note taken from Algorithms — Extended Dance Remix: Fast Fourier Transforms.
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Loop invariants is the topic of the problem in this note.
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Cool proof of the Schröder-Bernstein Theorem.
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Maximum subsequence problem.
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A line of $n$ airline passengers is waiting to board a plane.
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Induction and integer inequalities are the topics of this note.
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Inclusion-exclusion principle and the number of derangements are the topics of the problem in this section.
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Bipartite graphs, network flows, matchings and vertex covers are the topics of thisproblem1in this note.
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