After a philosophical discussion with Jarrod, I determined that WordPress was at least worth a try rather than relying solely on handcrafted HTML. So, here’s its shot.
If you’re walking out in the desert, keep an eye out in case you spot a fox, or step on a scorpion!
Dominoes and Chessboards
(c) 2005 by Jkb and JkbWorld
Reprinted from 01/20/2005
Introduction:
I was reading my Essentials of Artificial Intelligence book by Ginsberg and he mentioned a problem about placing 32 dominoes neatly on a chessboard. Then, after the dominoes were placed, two opposite corner spaces were cut off the chessboard and one of the dominoes was removed. The question was now, “Can you place 31 dominoes on an 8×8 chessboard with the corners cut off?”. He didn’t answer the question, leaving it as a task for the curious.
I knew I could simply look up the answer, but I wanted to write a program that could answer it for me. I also found a new Java library called POI that allows you to write to Excel files, so I wanted to use that at some point, too.
Jkb’s Axis Fun with Google Web Services API
(c) 2005 by Jkb and JkbWorld.com
01/10/2005 (republished 8/27/2009 because of all the linking)
JkbWorld.com
Introduction:
The Google Web Services API is a web service that allows developers like me to learn and integrate Google’s famous search engine capabilities into applications. This webpage is an attempt to capture some of the things I learned from it so that someone else might find it useful and also so I won’t forget how I did it. Here’s my story:
This is a reprint from 2004 where I wrote a variation of the Triangle Peg Solitaire game that can be played online from a NUTS talker. Then, as part of my Artificial Intelligence class, or maybe just for fun–I don’t remember–I wrote a program using recursion to find the solution and then find out how many solutions there are to this puzzle.