Trackmania: the world's most competitive racing game. A series of nightmares before the dream could begin: packet losses, Linux to Windows to Linux, VNC and screen-sharing, OpenPlanet and plugins...

Trackmania: the world's most competitive racing game. In this post, we begin our journey towards training a neural network to superhuman performance, by chronicling the history of previous attempts.

Prompted by Scott Alexander: a gradual transformation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, starting entirely in English et slowly commutans, piece by piece, until at last finis narratus in Latina pura scribitur.

Having gotten the world record in the hardest version of Tetris, we promptly lost it again. This post tells the history of the HATETRIS world record as it rose from 86 points to 289, in three weeks.

A collection of Mathematica programs and rhymed poetry written for Advent of Code 2022. Highlights include the ballad of John Henry, an OSHA-approved fable, and a grammatically precarious treehouse.

HATETRIS is the world's hardest version of Tetris; it's Tetris that hates you. In this post, we chronicle our eleven-month journey to get the world record, and some of our wrong turns along the way.

Written while procrastinating on the longer HATETRIS post, and rereading Goethe's Faust. Three years of Advent of Code have taught me to cap off every programming project with a poem, so here it is.

From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: The Moving Finger writes, and having writ / Moves on, nor all thy piety and wit / Shall lure it back to cancel half a line / Nor all thy tears erase one word of it.

A collection of Mathematica programs and rhymed poetry written for Advent of Code 2021. Highlights include a ten-page cave-diving text adventure game poem and the confessions of a polymer scientist.

2015 Day 6: Turn regions of a 1000x1000 grid of lights off and on again, and count how many are on at the end. After optimizing our brute-force, we explore other potential improvements and speedups.