The Problem Advent of Code 2023 Day 12 presents us with lists of gears which can either be functional ., broken #, or undetermined ?, as well as a list of how many broken gears are in a row. For...

What is Pruning In algorithms, sometimes you will have to do calculations on massive data sets, concerning yourself with either 3D grids of billions or trillions of cells, or possibly have to ma...

I was watching a YouTuber play Pikmin 2 for the first time, and he was complaining that Pikmin 2 had a lot of waiting, Around this point, I scrolled down to see a comment along the lines of “...

Dikstra’s Algorithm Introduction I’m going to assume for sake of brevity that the reader is aware of Dikstra’s Algorithm and its derivative, the A* algorithm. If you don’t, you can read up on Diks...

Github Page Rank Viewer Intro While playing various Sonic games, I’ve always been the type of person to try to go for the highest rank for every level. I just love the challenge and sense of per...