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Tasks and Ribbons There is a famous [problem](<https://leetcode.com/problems/maximum-sum-obtained-of-any-permutation/>), that comes up from time to time. I stumbled upon it in several interviews with Big Tech companies.

Marionette Codex Today I want to share one technical insight. Suppose you are building your own project and you want to add an agent into it. At first glance, it sounds simple: send a prompt, get an answer, repeat, call

[Груздь, сделай меня Богом](<https://t.me/minutka_ethnography/961>)

Simple wood farm It's a simple wood farm for the beginning of the game. ```python def best_move(d1, n1, d2, n2): d, n = ((d1, n1), (d2, n2))[n2 < n1] for _ in range(n): move(d) def nav(x2, y2): x1, y1 = get_pos_x(), get

6*6 to a really round number One more number I can't leave unnoticed. It is not a true round number, but I can see a few interesting facts here. First of all, it's the voltage of household outlets. I can't help but menti

TFWR. Simple pumpkin harvest The goal of this post is not to give you a ready polished and optimized pumpkin harvester in the TFWR game. I want to show you the simplest possible harvester, as I know it and explain step-b

A fleeting moment of joy. Vibe analytics. Thank you very much for the supportive reactions to [the previous post](<https://t.me/phys_math_dev/166>) about the RAG competition. A few words about the progress. On Sunday I s

The Farmer Was Replaced — navigation 🛸 From time to time I write about the game The Farmer Was Replaced. Unexpectedly it turned into a nice playground for experimenting with algorithms, navigation on toroidal grids, and

Agentic RAG Legal Challenge Why am I doing it? I'm reading a lot about agents, llms and other quite popular nowadays hot stuff. But, besides my project on work, I have no hands-on experience with all these technologies.

126 and 01239 👉 The sets 1, 2, 6 and 0, 1, 2, 3, 9 are fun because their arithmetic mean is an integer. And 01239 is slightly more fun: both median and mean are inside the set. 📖 A well known fact: if you look for a poin

Titanic. Age. We [started](<https://t.me/phys_math_dev/135>) talking about the Titanic dataset. Let's discuss the Age factor. We saw that Sex, Pclass and Embarked are strong features and to study them we used that these

Tiny math problem anniversary Ten years ago I accidentally invented an easy but funny mathematical problem. Let a long decimal number be "a". We permute digits and get "b". Is (a - b) divisible by 9? The answer is obviou

I'm not totally original While I was digging into [this area](<https://t.me/phys_math_dev/134>) on my own, with heavy help from ChatGPT, of course, I never expected that I have a completely new result. On Monday my colle

How to survive in the new reality Probably the best explanation "How to stop worrying and love agents." In order to succeed you have to: 🟢 Hone your expertise 🟢 Use LLMs as chat, agents, tools - whatever helps you move f

Mystery code Later I'm going to explain in detail, what is going on. For now I'm curious whether this subject is trivial. If you can, feel free to answer the following questions in the comments: ❓ How come that the guess

DIY. Physics laboratory We started a small educational project. A short ride to the Vernisage flea market brought us: ⚗️ Holder for chemistry experiments ⚗️ 5 springs ⚗️ old Soviet set of weights In a chat session with C

Childhood memory While my next brainy post is baking, let me share with you a picture from my childhood. I took this photo just today in the morning on my way to the office. The thing is that in 2026 in the Yerevan metro