Slides and Twists, Life in Life, and Star Art

July 25, 2024 – 10:19 am

Welcome to this week’s Math Munch!

I ran across the most wonderful compendium of slidey and twisty puzzles this past week when sharing the famous 15-puzzle with one of my classes. It’s called Jaap’s Puzzle Page and it’s run by a software engineer from the Netherlands named Jaap Scherphuis. Jaap has been running his Puzzle Page since 1999.

aap Scherphuis
nd some of his many puzzles

Jaap first encountered hands-on mathematical puzzles when he was given a Rubik’s Cube as a present when he was 8 or 9. He now owns over 700 different puzzles!

Jaap’s catalogue of slidey and twisty puzzles is immense and diverse. Each puzzle is accompanied by a picture, a description, a mathematical analysis, and–SPOILER ALERT–an algorithm that you can use to solve it!

On top of this, all of the puzzles in Jaap’s list with asterisks (*) next to them have playable Java applets on their pages–for instance, you can play Rotascope or Diamond 8-Ball. Something that’s especially neat about Jaap’s applets is that you can sometimes customize their size/difficulty. If you find the 15-puzzle daunting, you can start with the 8-puzzle or even the 3-puzzle instead. The applets also have a built in solver. I really enjoy watching the solver crank through solving a puzzle–it’s so relentless, and sometimes you can see patterns emerge.

Source: Math Munch

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See thats the problem....

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I forgot the link:
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Moore's Law: Linus Torvalds Predicts The End Of The Silicon Age  — Huffington Post UK

... of the human brain would allow a little bit of copy-cat to take place and speed the evolutionary progress, and find such solutions by using Genetic Algorithms.

The IT crowd: CFD at Marussia F1  — The Engineer

Genetic algorithms could help specialists deal with the masses of data … I think there is a huge future for genetic algorithms - algorithms that teach themselves.

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