OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Battleship Strategy

I have often considered writing a Battleship-playing AI, but I never have.

Now, I discover, there is a Battleship-playing AI competition, which I don’t have the time (or .NET experience) to enter.

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Knuth’s Greatest Ever Paper

The blogosphere tilted on its axis slightly last week when Donald Knuth had a birthday, and every Computer Science geek rushed to provide a tribute.

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Categories: Doubleplus Geek,Humour
Tags: computer science, Humour, knuth

Eiffel and Ariane 5 – revisiting the claims

I listened to a lecture by Bertrand Meyer on the subject of Ariane 5 about eleven years ago. It made me mad.

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