Monthly Archives: June 2020

Competitive programming in Haskell: data representation and optimization, with cake

Posted on June 29, 2020 by Brent

In my previous post I challenged you to solve Checking Break, which presents us with a cake in the shape of a rectangular prism, with chocolate chips at various locations, and asks us to check whether a proposed division of … Continue reading →

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Competitive programming in Haskell: vectors and 2D geometry

Posted on June 24, 2020 by Brent

In my previous post (apologies it has been so long!) I challenged you to solve Vacuumba, which asks us to figure out where a robot ends up after following a sequence of instructions. Mathematically, this corresponds to adding up a … Continue reading →

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Anyone willing to help me get set up with something like miso?

Posted on June 9, 2020 by Brent

For the last few years I’ve been working (off and on) on a teaching language for FP and discrete math. One of the big goals is to build a browser-based IDE which runs completely client-side, so students can code in … Continue reading →

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