@MinglangDu – Hack Club Scrapbook

Sun, Mar 30

Traveled to Boston

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Sun, Mar 30

Learnt about bitwise operations (im kinda sick so this is lower effort)

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Sat, Mar 29

Just taught my friends at school about binary lifting

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Fri, Mar 28

today I learnt to use the floyd-warshall algorithm to find the nodes on the shortest paths between nodes. Still working out specifics, as you can see😉

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Thu, Mar 27

Practiced usaco today! It was mostly reading, but I was able to apply my knowledge to solve this problem

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Wed, Mar 26

Today's usaco practice. This was definitely harder than I thought it would be, so it consumed most of my time. Learned quite a lot from the ~5 failed submissions and draft algorithms though.

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Tue, Mar 25

I could only do one problem for USACO silver. I'll practice more for next time, as the problems were very difficult.

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Mon, Mar 24

Created this monte carlo simulation that uses historical data and inputted factors to tell you your chances of bankruptcy! github.com/minglangdu/montecarlo/releases/tag/v0.1.0-alpha

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Sun, Mar 23

Today I participated in codeforces

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Sat, Mar 22

Today I learned about Monte Carlo simulations. Here are my notes for my project relating to them:

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Fri, Mar 21

Today I learned about binary lifting and Lowest Common Ancestors.

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Thu, Mar 20

Made a buggy release in my AI project to begin implementing epochs. Github: github.com/minglangdu/AI-test No video this time since its too buggy to deserve one. BTW this is not committed, you shouldn't see it on Github.

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Mon, Mar 17

Individual agents now can shoot at each other and get costs for shooting and getting hit respectively. Github: github.com/minglangdu/AI-test/tree/learning Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiAHpqHs8kk

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Mon, Mar 3

Fixed most major errors with my AI code and merged the branch! I also set the repo to public and uploaded a release github.com/minglangdu/AI-test/releases/tag/v0.2.0-alpha, and published a video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVwgbq4z2js

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Thu, Feb 20

Tried out a new activation function for a neural network (video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgIWl8Gm_ws)

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Fri, Feb 14

Added a little debug window to my neural network test. It is going to help me fix many issues! youtu.be/k6WEUDrnXCc?t=8 Edit: added an image to placate scrappy

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Sun, Jan 19

further probing into my code has revealed three massive bugs in my code. Too lazy to summarize them again so here are the issues github.com/minglangdu/Simulation/milestone/2

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Sun, Jan 12

wrote a raw-file parser inspired by DF's raws in my new simulation: github.com/minglangdu/Simulation

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Wed, Jan 1

weird vacation project youtu.be/cwJekPVHOzE (unfortunately can't publish to github on this computer for some reason)

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Sun, Dec 22, 2024

Just got into USACO silver! (is this type of post allowed on scrapbook?)

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Sat, Dec 21, 2024

Made agents avoid others in my boid simulation. github.com/guywithnousername/boid-thing

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Thu, Dec 19, 2024

Added movement to the agents in my simulation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTLBj4mygQY github.com/guywithnousername/boid-thing

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Wed, Dec 18, 2024

Working on a boid simulationgithub.com/guywithnousername/boid-thing

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Mon, Dec 16, 2024

As of now in USACO, I have full points on problem 1 and 2 and partial on problem 3. It's my top score of all time and I'm really excited!

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Wed, Nov 27, 2024

first time trying this new flowmodoro technique

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Wed, Nov 13, 2024

First doubloons

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Sun, Nov 3, 2024

First hour of many

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Sat, Nov 2, 2024

Github: github.com/guywithnousername/wfctest I realized my algorithm wasn't updating the procedural generation after some time, so I spent some time documenting the code to understand it more. Hopefully this will help me find the problem. Here is the debugging (red means not filled in, and the all different possibilities for each square are in the brackets):

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Thu, Oct 31, 2024

Practicing coding a lot today on no particular website because I'm registering for CALICO. I've never coded in a team, so I'll see how this goes. The website doesn't have a thumbnail so:

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Wed, Oct 30, 2024

No coding today but I just started using the pomodoro technique

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Sun, Oct 27, 2024

Was able to get the IDE to connect to my programmer after some help from #C015HANFLE5| and someone at an open house. Thanks

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Sun, Oct 27, 2024

I just got my arduinos I bought for my science fair experiment!

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Wed, Oct 23, 2024

Just finished my high school admissions interview! I showed them this website I made way back then:

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Tue, Oct 22, 2024

very small ai test with pytorch

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Fri, Oct 18, 2024

I forgot to show this yesterday, but the code works now. just very slow github.com/guywithnousername/wfctest

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Wed, Oct 16, 2024

Unfortunately, my attempt at implementing this was buggy github: github.com/guywithnousername/wfctest/tree/stitch

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Tue, Oct 15, 2024

After so many months, I'm finally returning to my procedural generation project! This scrapbook feature has really helped me pick up my old projects again, after I run out of ideas. Github: github.com/guywithnousername/wfctest/tree/stitch

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Mon, Oct 14, 2024

Added a score and clickers (with no way to buy them) to my game: (link )

Sun, Oct 13, 2024

made a test game (first time posting on itch.io!) guywithnousername.itch.io/balance-clicker

Wed, Aug 7, 2024

made major progress on my wave function collapse algorithm! Got it to generate a nice shoreline! github: github.com/guywithnousername/wfctest

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Thu, Jul 25, 2024

I made a tiny test of the wave function collapse algorithm Github: github.com/guywithnousername/wfctest/blob/main/README.md Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_function_collapse

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Sat, May 25, 2024

Starting to dabble with SDL2

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