• A survey of Linear Programming

    Introduction

    In the recent article about the internship lottery, we’ve formulated trading optimization in the following manner:

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  • Internship Lottery

    Probability Trading

    As mentioned in the previous post, the new lottery is composed of 3 steps:

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  • Internship Lottery

    Overview and Setup

    Recently my wife, who’s studying medicine, had to partake in what’s called an “internship lottery”. The basic idea is that there are 25 hospitals, each with a specific amount of vacancies, and students need to be assigned to internships.

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  • Perspective Projection

    Dealing With Overlaps

    If you look closely at the code from the previous article you’ll notice that all the statements are carefully ordered in the code. This is because when it comes down to actually drawing lines, if line A is drawn before line B, it will get obscured by it.

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  • Perspective Projection

    Rendering Pretty 3D

    In the previous posts I’ve included graphics that I rendered using a set of scripts. I resorted to writing my own renderer because I had some very specific set of requirements:

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  • SAT

    Automating Boolean Algebra

    I recently ran into a problem that I thought would be nice to solve using satisfiability (SAT). I quickly understood though that it would be unfeasible, but I got curious anyway.

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  • Traffic Simulator

    Preparation

    As I’m writing this blog about something I did almost 3 years ago, I’m having some trouble remembering the exact circumstances that led me to simulate traffic in a city. However, the general direction was that I was interested in measuring how certain parameters (speed-limit, driver reaction-time, vehicle density etc…) affect congestion (and btw, the definition of congestion is also not trivial).

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  • Reverse Engineering Dangerous Dave

    Packaging

    I’ve been looking to take on a reverse-engineering project, as a means to practice the skill, for quite some time now.

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  • Blackbox

    Level 8

    As in the previous posts, the password for the next level has been replaced with question marks so as to not make this too obvious, and so that the point of the walkthrough, which is mainly educational, will not be missed.

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  • Blackbox

    Level 7

    As in the previous posts, the password for the next level has been replaced with question marks so as to not make this too obvious, and so that the point of the walkthrough, which is mainly educational, will not be missed.

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  • Blackbox

    Level 6

    As in the previous posts, the password for the next level has been replaced with question marks so as to not make this too obvious, and so that the point of the walkthrough, which is mainly educational, will not be missed.

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  • Blackbox

    Level 5

    As in the previous posts, the password for the next level has been replaced with question marks so as to not make this too obvious, and so that the point of the walkthrough, which is mainly educational, will not be missed.

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  • Blackbox

    Level 4

    Welcome back to the walkthrough of the blackbox wargame.

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  • Blackbox

    Level 3

    Hi again. This is be another chapter in the series of the blackbox walkthrough.

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  • Blackbox

    Level 2

    Hi. This post will be about level2 of the blackbox wargame at smashthestack.org.

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  • Blackbox

    Level 1

    Well, I’ve decided it’s about time I started keeping record of things I do/learn/come across.

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