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Surviving Mumbai [Part I]: A Quick Intro…

Nishant Arora — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:38:17 +0000

Check Out My Trip Albums Here It’s been long since I posted here on my Web Log. Well the reason was obvious I was away on a trip to Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. And there are several things I learnt from this trip (So the title Part I, will make sense now, as couple of my [...]

How To Enjoy Theater Quality 3D Movies using your laptop/desktop/LCD/LED/CRT even on your mobiles

Nishant Arora — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:18:16 +0000

hi, After Reading This I dun think you will consider investing in that slim 3D TV from the showroom! This a long kept secret, but they who are making expensive TVs which are selling for 2,00,000 plus like hot cakes wanna suppress this. You can use pretty much any screen if it can play any [...]

Facebook Hacker Cup (read Maths Olympiad) 2012 – Online Round 1 – Results Out

Nishant Arora — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:04:46 +0000

So here we are with people complaining and whining about the results… Top 500 competitors were to move ahead and its a tough call there… in my previous post here… I told ya how difficult for some and easy for some the problem sets were… I had it all figured… the program worked for small data sets [...]

I give In… I ain’t no Maths Genius…

Nishant Arora — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:39:45 +0000

started with facebook hacker cup 2012 in great enthusiasm, but then in the very first online round they come in with problems, wither purely based on math or some other bullsh!t stuff added to it. The problems can be solved, but require not just out of the box thinking, infact you will have to figure [...]

Disappointed With Facebook Maths Olympiad – ERRR – Facebook Hacker Cup

Nishant Arora — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:04:34 +0000

Good Morning Was up all night, was looking forward to have a look at the coding problems at the facebook hacker cup, but I am really very disappointed with stuff here. the contest started late as usual without any intimation. People again had problems with inputs and outputs the problems were unrealistic and looked bugged, [...]

Facebook Billboards Problem Detailed Solution – Highly Optimized – On Special Request

Nishant Arora — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:20:50 +0000

I just received a request from Aniruddha Narayan asking for a detailed solution on the Facebook Billboards Problem. I had already posted about this earlier and given link to both the online working file and online ide. Still I would love to explain the code once again, the thing is my solution is much more optimized and efficient [...]

Facbeook Hacker Cup 2012 – Qualification Round Concludes with Final Results

Nishant Arora — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:11:16 +0000

hi, Just came in the news that the Scoreboard has been Finalized, and was desperate to check my solutions for the Billboard Problem and Alphabet Soup Problem. Both of them are correct and due to the time differnces my penalty was calculate at80 hours and awarded a rank of 1588. Now some stats: Total Participants: 7605 [...]

How These Stupid Posts Just Go Viral – That Are Not Even Close To Reality

Nishant Arora — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:27:38 +0000

Hi, I just came accross this Post that read like this: Please “SHARE” this to everyone you know, you might save one’s lifeA couple lost their 25 year old son in a fire at home on June 4th. The son who had graduated with MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison two weeks earlier had come [...]

FbHc 2012 – Billboards Problem Solution

Nishant Arora — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:42:56 +0000

Update: My friend “Martin” just pointed out an error, my code is bugged… Holy Shit!… the code gives a wrong answer for “4 4 Ab Cd”, still maybe it was the input set, i got a correct from facebook. Still I have updated the code accordingly. Update: Since the submissions are over, click here to access [...]

It is difficult to release test tools when you are in a coding competition…

Nishant Arora — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:05:31 +0000

Yesterday I released the solving tool for the Facebook Hacker Cup – 2012 – “Alphabet Soup” problem here. But it was just for testing your outputs against mine, but since the people accessing my website are supposedly “Hax0r”, they are trying to hack my websites… Okay I removed the file security so that the solver [...]