Impromptus

I was reminded by a recent blog post* about a feature of science that we don’t like to talk about very much, which is its opposition to reason. In science, when mathematical proof (the highest standard and purest form of reasoning we have as humans) disagrees with the results of an experiment, then that reasoning [...]

Here is an algorithms puzzle which you are welcome to answer with your own implementation. The algorithms question is taken from “Algorithm Design” by Kelinberg and Tardos, which I recommend highly. You are doing some stress testing on jars to determine the height from which they can be dropped and still not break. You test [...]