Each of the ghosts is programmed with an individual “personality”, a different algorithm it uses to determine its method of moving through the maze. (via GameInternals – Understanding Pac-Man Ghost Behavior)

[…] No matter where you are, if you have a radio, […] you’ll need to wait, on average, only about 40 minutes until a Katy Perry song comes on. Good to know. (via What’s the TTKP? « Music Machinery) Very nice and fun data crunching of radio playlists via YES api. What’s the number for WMBR, though ?

Le friselis de guitare en intro de Suspicious Minds électrise tout le morceau. La voix d’Elvis est naturellement très en avant mais c’est un vrai groupe qu’on entend derrière lui, non un simple assemblage de requins somnolents. (via Elvis Presley (3) – Le fil musique – Télérama.fr) – Très bonne série consacrée à Elvis sur le blog de François Gorin.

In this essay I tackle the problem of solving every Sudoku puzzle. It turns out to be quite easy […] using two ideas: constraint propagation and search.

Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle – Classic algorithm to tackle sudoku once and for all.

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it’s Bohemian Raphsody Time !!

How does it work? […] Given a word, we are trying to choose the most likely spelling correction for that word. […] We are trying to find the correction c, out of all possible corrections, that maximizes the probability of c given the original word w.

How to Write a Spelling Corrector – a nice Bayesian algorithm, and 21 lines of Python.