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# We are not the center of the digital universe Soviet ideologists were geniuses. History does go in a spiral. Back in the eighties a programmer was sitting in a dark room and typed something in dark terminal windows. No

#friday #shitposting Be yourself.

ICFPC2026. Postmortem. AI, LLM, Agents. Unagi team Instead of posts "I ran one-shot prompt, it ran for 10 hours and gave me Counter Strike" I prefer to write about what agents didn't manage to solve. Why? First of all, b

ICFPC 2026. Lightning round. This year, the contest authors revived an idea from one of the previous contests: they came up with a special 2D graph-based programming language and created a kind of LeetCode for it. The co

ICFPC 2026 Sorry for jumping from topic to topic. One day I should collect all plots I started and finalize them somehow. But. It's the event I have been waiting for the whole year. It's ICFPC 2026. I have been taking pa

Hopping hoop dynamics In the series about stochastic AUROC, I already stated that the bleeding edge of science is not as distant as one might imagine. Let's again check that a bunch of expressions one can write down with

The jumping wheel About ten years ago, my friend told me a story. At MIPT, a professor of theoretical mechanics promised to give a free "excellent" mark for his course to anyone who solved a problem and defended the solu

Vibe trolling [I have already started](<https://t.me/phys_math_dev/279>) talking about Trolls Farm. There are two camps on a symmetric map, and your task is to collect more resources than your opponent. As always in stra

Please leave a positive reaction if you want to hear the behind-the-scenes story of how I beat Boss 5 in the Troll Farm challenge.