YoungForest's blog

Weekly notes on balanced splits, eight-direction attacks, constrained roll sequences and equal frequencies after one removal.

Post-contest notes on unique occurrence counts, equal substrings within budget, adjacent-duplicate removal and a rotating snake shortest path.

Four friends take a budget three-day trip through Paris, balancing exhaustion with museums, the Seine, Versailles, food, history and cultural confidence.

A first European trip through Amsterdam and nearby villages: missed trains, rushed planning, a late rural arrival, and an unforgettable Milky Way.

Post-contest notes on frequency construction, nested reversal, repeated-array maximum sums and critical network connections across time zones.

A five-month exchange in Belgium, reflecting on life in Liege, slow daily rhythms, demanding English-taught courses, and wider travel across Europe.

Weekly notes on circular routes, weekdays, one-deletion maximum sums and replacements for a strictly increasing array before moving abroad.

A week at a 2019 engineering camp: selection tests, intensive lectures, a two-person project sprint, and a tiring but rewarding technical experience.

Revisiting a failed interview problem six months later, deriving a linear circular-route solution that skips every doomed starting point.

Weekly notes on prime arrangements, diet windows, palindrome queries and seven-letter puzzles, plus two careless penalties.