🚀✨ Behold the arcane magic of de Bruijn numerals: where pure lambda calculus meets a cryptic maze of indices, and 🧙♂️ arithmetic becomes an Olympic event in mental gymnastics. 🤹♂️ Math enthusiasts rejoice, for you’ll need a PhD in esoteric algorithms just to decode this masterpiece! 📜🔮
https://text.marvinborner.de/2023-08-22-22.html #deBruijnNumerals #lambdaCalculus #mathMagic #mentalGymnastics #esotericAlgorithms #HackerNews #ngated
#esotericAlgorithms
On the blog: Oh, Snap!
"There are C++ codebases that would give 128-bit encryption a good run for its money."
On the blog: Oh, Snap!
"The (surprising and frustrating) absence of a seeding function makes JavaScript’s pseudo-random number generator even more rudimentary than the PRNG facility found in many home computer BASICs of the 70s and 80s."
#EsotericAlgorithms #ThanosSort
https://kevlinhenney.medium.com/oh-snap-f38b2f2b8d27
On the blog: Oh, Snap!
"Thanos sort has a distinctive structure and outcome drawn from both dropsort and bogosort: simple, stable, lossy and random, but guaranteed to terminate."
A Sort of Permutation
I've just updated my essay on permutation sort, revising the code formatting, linking some more references, and elaborating a couple of concepts, constructs and code. So, a little more algorithmic clarification and notation than the previous version.
#PermutationSort #EsotericAlgorithms
https://kevlinhenney.medium.com/a-sort-of-permutation-768c1a7e029b
Get the Drop on Sorting
I've just updated my essay on dropsort, updated the code formatting, fixed a typo, elaborated a couple of concepts/constructs, linked some more references. So, a little more programming language history and algorithmic clarification than the previous version.
https://kevlinhenney.medium.com/get-the-drop-on-sorting-4d8cd1b91780
The Most Bogus Sort
I've just updated my essay on bogosort — reformatted code, fixed a couple of mistakes, clarified some concepts, added a couple of extras, linked some more references. Now even more bogus than ever!
https://kevlinhenney.medium.com/the-most-bogus-sort-3879e2e98e67
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