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ICFPC 2026. Lightning round. This year, the contest authors revived an idea from one of the previous contests: they came up with a special 2D graph-based programming language and created a kind of LeetCode for it. The co

ICFPC 2026 Sorry for jumping from topic to topic. One day I should collect all plots I started and finalize them somehow. But. It's the event I have been waiting for the whole year. It's ICFPC 2026. I have been taking pa

Hopping hoop dynamics In the series about stochastic AUROC, I already stated that the bleeding edge of science is not as distant as one might imagine. Let's again check that a bunch of expressions one can write down with

The jumping wheel About ten years ago, my friend told me a story. At MIPT, a professor of theoretical mechanics promised to give a free "excellent" mark for his course to anyone who solved a problem and defended the solu

Vibe trolling [I have already started](<https://t.me/phys_math_dev/279>) talking about Trolls Farm. There are two camps on a symmetric map, and your task is to collect more resources than your opponent. As always in stra

Please leave a positive reaction if you want to hear the behind-the-scenes story of how I beat Boss 5 in the Troll Farm challenge.

The troll farm. My colleagues reminded me about a [beautiful platform](<http://www.codingame.com/>). It is a nice way to study programming languages and algorithms. Unlike leetcode, where the feedback is basically "your

Water jets - navigation A thought here, a physics puzzle there... One by one, I collected quite a nice series of posts about fluid dynamics. It flows from the law of conservation of energy to a DIY tower printed on a 3D

Armenian spinning top Quiz Let's get dangerous! (c) I'll try to send (or give, or whatever) an Armenian spinning top to the person who gives the best explanation of the difference between the left and right pictures. I s

#friday #shitposting It is very important not to let your traffic signs degrade. Drop your favorites in the comments.

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Jets are approximated Finally, I conducted the experiment and analyzed the results. The curves were fitted during quite a long session with Claude. One thing I would do differently now: mark the jets with different color

Friday beauty posting Missing finger syndrome is when your amputated finger itches. Last Friday I had missing work syndrome. On our son's graduation day, I was fighting a strong desire to grab my computer and start solvi

The winners are... The winners of yesterday quiz, of course, nine happy people who chose "Babbidi-bibidi-dup!" option. They are clearly happy! But, If we are speaking about the truth behind the poll, the picture is much