phimuemue

This is a small site mostly concerning mathematical and programming-related problems. Additionally, there's a small collection of music links. I hope you discover something useful!

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• Implementing a brainball solver - 2018 04 02

  Some years ago, I got a "brainball" as a present, a game similar to a rubiks cube and supposed to be pretty hard. I was not able to solve it by hand, so I decided to write a solver in Rust.

• Learned the hard way: Type safety is not everything - 2018 03 27

  You may have heard that in Haskell "once it compiles, it works". While this seems to apply in Haskell more than in other languages, a compiling program is not guaranteed to be bug-free, even if you might think so. In this post, I shortly want to showcase an example I experienced and what I hopefully learned from it.

• An adventure in Haskell: A simple lambda interpreter - 2018 03 27

  I was never an expert of lambda-calculus, but I always wanted to learn (at least the basics of) it. So, I decided to write a very simplistic interpreter for the untyped lambda calculus.

• A simple lambda interpreter - 2018 03 27

  I was never an expert of lambda-calculus, but I always wanted to learn (at least the basics of) it. So, I decided to write a very simplistic interpreter for the untyped lambda calculus.

• Five ways to solve one of my favourite mathematical problems - 2014 05 11

  During my studies, we had to take the lecture "Discrete Probability Theory" which quickly became one of my favourite ones. The day before the exam, I found the following riddle in the internet (see here):

  n persons, all of different heights are standing in a queue facing the window of ticket distributor in a cinema hall. What is the expected number of persons visible to the person at the ticket window if each permutation of n persons is equally likely?

  Over time, I found some solutions to this problem, and I'd like to present them to you.

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