Post-internship planning My summer internship in Seattle ended on August 15. I had a week of free time and hadn’t visited Olympic National Park. It’s a 2.5-hour drive from Seattle, and once inside...

This blog picks up from the end of my EPFL blog and takes me back home to Canada. Milan (Dec 26, 27) Since I had booked a return flight to Canada from Zürich, I used the SBB luggage shipment servi...

It was the end of my exchange and I had wanted to visit Provence this whole time. This was the perfect destination for me: nature, sunshine, and experiencing more of France. When I saw incredibly c...

Funny that I finished Part 3 before Parts 1 and 2. After going on some amazing trips with my Canadian-German friend group, I decided to branch out on my own. I found that: Four was the ideal...

Меня мое сердце в тревожную даль зовёт...

My classmate and I went to NYC for our Jane Street interviews! We scheduled our interviews for Friday, March 15th because we had no Friday classes and had just finished our midterms the previous we...

Normally, I wouldn't recommend Germany for a first trip to Europe, but for you, yes.

Introduction TLE 2018-19 P1 - Hello, World! is from an April Fools’ Day contest; it’s not a serious competitive programming problem. If you take a look closely at the sample input, you might figure...

Introduction When you implement a recursive segment tree, it’s better to store segment tree nodes in an array or vector than it is to create a new object for every node one by one. This reduces th...

In the ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest), each team is allowed to bring up to 25 pages of printed material. There are many great codebooks out there such as KACTL, but I prefer to...