Auteur/autrice : Fred

  • US 7,096,473

    US 7,096,473

  • Hats Calculator (2/3)

    Hats Calculator (2/3)

    This is the second in a series of three exercices de style to show some interesting aspects of the game of hats: a puzzle which was initially proposed by Lionel Levine. First exercice Second exercice Third exercice Here we introduce the hats calculator: a toy application which implements the operations introduced in the first exercice. […]

  • Towers of hats (1/3)

    Towers of hats (1/3)

    This is the first in a series of three exercices de style to show some interesting aspects of the game of hats: a puzzle which was initially proposed by Lionel Levine, and arose from his work with Tobias Friedrich on

  • git filter-repo

    git filter-repo

    Eventually you will commit a huge file to your git repository by mistake. Use git-filter-repo to remedy the situation. Installation: Example:

  • Schizo: a different sudoku solving technique

    Schizo: a different sudoku solving technique

    Over the years, several tips and techniques have been developed to help solve sudoku puzzles with logic rather than brute force. To name a few, sudoku9x9 mentions (among others) hidden single, naked single, x-wing.

  • Facebook Die Hard

    Facebook Die Hard

    J’ai demandé la suppression permanente de mon compte facebook en 2013. J’ai été tranquille pendant quelques années. Depuis 2017 curieusement, Facebook s’est mis à me spammer avec des emails réguliers intitulés revenez sur Facebook en un clic, ou encore connectez-vous à Facebook en un clic. Le dernier date du 29 mai 2020:

  • Murder in the third degree?

    Murder in the third degree?

    On Friday, May 29th, four days after the video-recorded, snuff-style, lynch-style, cold-blooded murder of George Floyd by four officers of the police of Minneapolis, Minnesota, one of the officers was charged with third degree murder by Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman.

  • A Karen

    A Karen

    On Monday May 25th, Christian Cooper had an unpleasant encounter with Amy « Karen » Cooper.

  • Mark Sucker-berg

    Mark Sucker-berg

    In response to Twitter having fact-checked two posts by President donald trump, Mark Zuckerberg pandered to the White House during an interview on Fox News: “We have a different policy, I think, than Twitter on this […] I just believe strongly that Facebook shouldn’t be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online […]

  • IMO 2019 Problem 1

    IMO 2019 Problem 1

    An exercice with MathJax Problem 1: Let $\mathbb{Z}$ be the set of integers. Determine all functions $f : \mathbb{Z} \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}$ such that \begin{equation}\forall (a, b) \in \mathbb{Z} \times \mathbb{Z}, \quad f(2a) + 2 f(b) = f(f(a + b))\label{eq1}\end{equation}