- The most memorable math problem I've ever done
A decade later, one problem and its solution still haunt me…
- A mathematical analysis of Squid Game, game 5
A spoiler-free look at your probability of death if you were forced to play a mathematically idealized version of the game from the hit K-drama series.
- Silicon of the 2010s: a retrospective
The big events and trends in hardware from the past decade.
- Binary search takes O(∛n) time; geometric bounds in computation
Memory’s slow, but how do we model it?
- (Finished) Sunrise Alarm
It can get really bright.
- My DIY Sunrise Alarm Clock
Why and how I wrote an Android app and wired up some hardware to simulate the sunrise
- Turn Gmail attachments to Google Docs to save space
Google Docs files don’t count against your Google storage quota, while Gmail attachments and all other file formats do. So, I made a tool to take attachments, import them as Google Docs, and replace the original attachment with links to the imported file
- When typing, your fingers are like a superscalar processor
Sometimes bad analogies are the most interesting ones because they make you really think about the two things you’re comparing. So here’s one such analogy that made me think more about CPU microarchitecture.
- FFT-Based Integer Multiplication, Part 2
How the Schonhage-Strassen algorithm uses the number theoretic transform (NTT) to multiply N-bit integers in O(N log N log log N) time
- FFT-Based Integer Multiplication, Part 1
The fast Fourier transform allows us to convolve in n log n time, which is useful for fast multiplication. But the FFT uses floating-point calculations; what problems does this cause when we want exact integer results?
