Simon's Musings

Well, that was slightly embarrassing and frustrating... After a relatively promising attempt at round 1B , I entered round 1C yesterday a...

Although I had quite a bit of trouble surviving this year's qualification round , I was allowed to participate in online round 1, which,...

This year I registered for Google Code Jam again. The new platform supports Common Lisp (SBCL) again, so I started writing my solutions for...

Like most years, I registered for Google Code Jam again, because it's fun. The qualification round is usually easy for me to survive, bu...

Online round 1 was done on three dates again this year. The first (1A) fell in the middle of the night so I skipped it. Round 1B Problem A...

In 2016 I was quite happy with my performance in GCJ, even though I didn't make it past Round 1 . So despite being quite busy, I regist...

After failing to qualify in round 1A  in this year's Google Code Jam, I had two more chances to advance to round 2. Round 1B In roun...

Having survived (like 96% of all Lispers and 81.5% of the wider population) the Qualification Round , I'm trying to pass the first ...

This year I registered for Google Code Jam again. The qualification round was this weekend, and I submitted solutions in Lisp.  This time...

Last year I had a lot of fun with the small puzzles of Google Treasure Hunt.   This year, there was no treasure hunt, so I decided to partic...

This is another one that lends itself to a nice solution in Common Lisp. It helps not to be too worried about efficiency in the beginning -...

First I was kind-of proud to turn in the solution about 32 minutes after the puzzle was published, in spite of phone calls and other diversi...

Google Treasure Hunt is a sequence of (four?) nice puzzles, three of which have been published so far. Since everybody blogs how they solve...