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 taking several trips with my Canadian-German group, I decided to branch out on my own. I determined that: Four was the ideal group si...

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...

My Experience Note: I am writing this blog in June 2021, after the 2021 (not 2020) CCO. 2020 was my first time at the Canadian Computing Olympiad (CCO). The top 25 or so high school students fro...