Wednesday, October 5, 2011

A Gotcha with squaring on both sides..

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One of the things we often do while solving equations is square on both sides of the equation. Until today, it never occured to me that one...
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Dream of death

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Today i had a very scary dream. I owed somebody a debt, and he was going to kill me. I kind of get cornered on a huge staircase, and he was ...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Android Fix

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Press Volume up and power button to enter fastboot mode. Go to device manager. Select the android device with an ! mark, right click, upda...
Saturday, January 15, 2011

Facebook hacker Cup Round 1A - Power Overwhelming

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The question goes something like: "You are to inflict mazimum damage to the zerg army. There are two types of units - Warrior and Sheil...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

A Gotcha with function minimization using genetic algorithms

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Tyically, a genetic algorithm works by the notion of maximizing the fitness. Consider a function y = x, which is to be minimized in the inte...

Facebook Hacker Cup: A Geometric Approach to Double Squares Problem

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Given an integer N, we need to find the number of integral pairs (x, y) such that x^2 + y^2 = N. n can range from [0, 2147483647] and th...
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Open AL, Adobe Director - No sound in projector [FIX]

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One of the most annoying thing about Adobe Director is its lack of support. Open AL Xtra enables director to use OpenAL runtimes for 3D soun...