Posts Tagged ‘computer science’

Solution for the Random Selection Challenge

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

A few days ago, I wrote up two small Python Challenges. Several people have presented solutions for the first challenge, and I also posted my solution in the comments there.

However, the second challenge remained unsolved, and I will present a solution for it in this post.

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Origami crease-patterns are NP-complete

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

After talking about it with someone I met, I looked it up, and it does seem to be so. There is of-course a lot of research on the subject that I didn’t yet get the chance to read, but I think this is the general picture.

In any case, this shows that my suggestion of using origami as a hash function is valid! Really cool stuff… I wonder if it could actually be useful somewhere.

Misunderstood humour – and NP-Completeness

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

One of the good xkcd comics that I liked. I tried showing it to other people, but almost nobody got it…