mt-notes

a collection of notes concerning ML, math & programming


Solving Peg Solitaire with efficient Bit-Board Representations

Many of us might now the board game peg solitaire and might even have one of its many variants at home. Peg solitaire is a one-player game played on a board with n holes and n - 1 pegs. The number of holes depends on the board variant. For example, the English variant consists of 33 holes while the typical diamond variant consists of 41 holes. The rules of the game are rather easy.

74 min read   ·   2024

Choosing a Voltage Divider Resistor for a Light Dependent Resistor

Imagine that you are planning to use a Light Dependent Resistor (LDR) for your new IoT prototype in order to detect whether or not a lamp is turned on in a (otherwise dark) room. A common way to solve this problem is the usage of a voltage divider circuit.

10 min read   ·   2024

Deriving a Closed-Form Solution of the Fibonacci Sequence

The Fibonacci sequence might be one of the most famous sequences in the field of mathmatics and computer science. In this blog post we will derive an interesting closed-form solution to directly compute any arbitrary Fibonacci number without the necessity to obtain its predecessors first.

12 min read   ·   2024

a distill-style blog post

an example of a distill-style blog post and main elements

8 min read   ·   2021

a post with code

an example of a blog post with some code

4 min read   ·   2015