Posts by Rachel Richardson

northernviper4 said:Take a look at your posting history. It’s nothing but drama, sarcasm, and sheer stubbornness.
Besides—wasn't there an agreement long ago to just ignore each other? Go focus on yourself. You certainly have enough free time for some self-reflection.

Honestly, I haven't found a single one of your posts where you were actually sarcastic—or dramatic (at all).
Some people just need to be bypassed, so that 😁

northernviper4 said:Yeah, yeah, and then you've got the Tower of Hanoi, cannibals, and missionaries... 😬

I've heard of the Tower of Hanoi, as well as the cannibals and missionaries. 😬
It’s a classic set of examples. 👍

Gregory Smith21 said:Calculating a simple square root in Assembly already takes a massive amount of lines. 😬

True, that's basic level stuff. 😬

Gregory Smith21 said:Implementing most algorithms in C or C++ is trivial—just let me know when you're ready. Once you have shared libraries for the core functions, all you really need to do is set up the conditional jumps.

Let’s try doing the whole thing in Assembly then. 🍿

Going back to basics? 😬

That would certainly be an arduous task. 🤣

I'm going to take a moment to see how much I've forgotten—remember that old riddle about the boat, the Wolf, the goat, and the cabbage? 😬

Well, check out the sequel. 😬
https://www.mit.edu/_download/r...toraStanja.pdf


Lab assignment: The Jealous Husbands Problem
Write a program that utilizes a Breadth-First Search to find the optimal
solution to the Jealous Husbands problem.
The problem is defined as follows: three husbands and their wives must
cross from one side of a river to the other using a single boat. At no
point can a wife be left in the presence of another husband unless her own
husband is also present. The boat can carry a maximum of two people and cannot
travel empty.
The optimal solution is the one requiring the fewest steps. The program should
output the solution as a sequence of operators and states leading to the target
state.

northernviper4 said:That decision tree issue isn't actually relevant—I only brought it up as an example of a problem I ran into during a job interview. 🙂
What he's doing here is state-space searching, and there are plenty of different algorithms for that.

I suspect he tackled it using a tree structure.
Standard recursion and backtracking—though he likely implemented some kind of time limit to prune the results so it wouldn't run indefinitely.
The guy wasn't allowed to Google anything; he just went with the first thing that came to mind.

Fair point—those are search trees. I don't think he used probability. Honestly, it’s been so long since college that most of that has slipped my mind. 😁
He really should have looked it up; he would have found a much better solution. 😁

northernviper4 said:These are classic hurdles—I actually work through these exact scenarios with my freshmen when we dive into various algorithms. 😁

During my first job interview, I was thrown a curveball—a problem-solving task that required using decision trees paired with probabilities to calculate the net present value of several different options. It felt strangely familiar, almost like those textbook exercises you grind through in school—xD. Honestly, if they want to use those kinds of scenarios during interviews, I'm all for it. 😁

A colleague of mine went down to some federal agency to check things out—and ended up getting completely screwed over. 😁
It’s an intriguing puzzle—finding a path from one word to another by changing only a single letter at a time, ensuring every intermediate step remains a valid entry within a predefined dictionary.

Decision trees integrated with probabilities—that really is the only way forward. Period. 😬
He cobbled something together—but his initial solution failed to deliver any real-time results. 😬

josuha said:I’m asking the two most charming ladies on this forum to weigh in—I have a few things on my mind. 🍿

chic fight? 🍿
I've always had an affinity for math and CS—even if I haven't touched algorithm complexity analysis in quite some time.
What was your experience like working with 2D pathfinders?
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/count-...ht-nxm-matrix/
Some tech firms in the States actually use this kind of thing as a standard job assessment. 🍿

The optimization of moving from point A to point B. 😁

It looks like a fork 😁

Timothy Turner5 said:Boat 😛

+1 👍

Drew Ross2 said:total jerk 😁

+1 👍

Not quite—there are actually smaller versions than this one 😁

hiddennomad60 said:🤣 🤣

This is Badić 😁

bikini 🤔😁

Simply adorable 😁

Plus—the eyes, those legs, and hair that reaches all the way down to her waist 👍

Brenda Green62 said:The Four 😳

Yum 😁

Brenda Green62 said:🤣

I simply call it a little something for the bikini 😁

good soul 🧐 😁

piece 😁😁😁😁

Badić is Badić 😁
It could just as easily be a swimsuit 🙂

Sweet treats 😁

Donna Doyle2 said:Muhomlat—I just made that word up right now, even though Google insists it’s actually a thing.

Muhomlat😁

northernviper4 said:Pantyhose, tights... 😁

Sent from my BLN-L21 using Reddit

+1 😁

And honestly—it’s all just hairbrushes and combs. 😁

Quark is a positive influence—also 👍

Donna Doyle2 said:Brush

+1 🍿

Donna Doyle2 said:Curtains vs. drapes? 🤔
What’s even the difference? 🙂
On the IKEA website, they have a section labeled "Curtains and Drapes," yet for certain items, it just says curtains—you won't see the word "drapes" anywhere.

Good grief—if there’s a specific technical term for every single style (like sheer, cafe-style, floor-length, heavyweight, those with metal hooks, the ones with plastic rings, or the ones with fabric loops...), I’ll lose my mind trying to memorize them all!

To me, curtains and drapes are essentially synonyms—perhaps "drapes" is just a bit more old-fashioned or emphasized. 😁
The whole point of this thread is to pick up a few new things along the way.😬