About a week ago I decided to try and write a chess engine. I’ve encountered bitboards before, and I really liked working with them. Most references I found had to do with chess engines, so I decided to have a go.
Today I’ve been looking into rainbow tables. These are tables used to do a reverse lookup for a hash function. For example MD5, or Windows LAN Manager. Usually these tables are used to find passwords if the hash is known. Now I’m not looking for a method to crack somebodies computer, but the technology and [...]
Since a couple of days I’ve been working hard on the new Al Zimmermann’s Programming Contest: Cards (also called Topswops).
The challenge
The idea is very easy, you take a series of numbers, from 1 to N. You shuffle the numbers around, for example:
5,3,1,2,4
A couple of days ago I encountered this article: How Shazam Works
This got me interested in how a program like Shazam works… And more importantly, how hard is it to program something similar in Java?
The last couple of weeks I have been playing around with compression/decompression algorithms. This is a field that has always intrigued me. It gives me a magical feeling, like a magician you wave some algorithm around and suddenly the files shrink and bytes dissapear. With the same motion you can undo all your actions and [...]
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- RT @olly_richards: Oh, it's 22 years since Jim Henson died. Which means, The Saddest Photo In The World: http://t.co/Ua6qOsn4
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