David Wisdom

What prompted this? When I’m bored, I sometimes visit r/random. I usually click through a few subreddits before I remember that I have actual things to do. During my clicking, I’ve noticed that I get sort of a lot of repeats. More repeats than I would expect. I mean, there are 3 million subreddits—I can’t keep getting the same few results every time I ask for a random one. How was the data collected? [Read More]

In a previous post, I described a program I had created in Python to solve nonograms. That program could only reliably solve 4 x 4 boards, but it could occasionally get lucky on a 5 x 5. I wanted to do better than that and I’ve been meaning to dip my toes into Rust. So I made a similar solver in Rust. Learning Rust Rust has been a joy to learn. [Read More]

This site is set up to accept BAT tips from the Brave browser. Even though the site is verified, the widget will still sometimes say “Not yet verified” on mobile.

For a few years now, I’ve been playing a mobile game called Nonogram.com. It’s on the Play store and the App store, and probably other places as well. It’s a pretty simple game so I thought it might be fun to make something that can solve it. I’m used to working on vague, fuzzy problems so it was a bit of a shock to me when the first thing I tried actually worked. [Read More]

From Göbekli Tepe through to Ingenuity, humans have made some pretty neat things.

It’s time to add one more to the list.

This is a brand-new post I’m making to see whether it will update the date. I don’t really have anything else to write at the moment. Maybe I will soon.