Problems & Puzzles
Godfrey Heathcote, Hampstead and Highgate Express, 1905-06 (1st Prize): White to move and mate in two. (See solution)
reading
Oct 28
Oct 08
Stock market crash
A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market. Crashes are driven by panic as much as by underlying economic factors. They often follow speculative stock market bubbles.
Oct 06
Oct 03
Fishkeeping
Fishkeeping is a popular hobby concerned with keeping fish in the home aquarium or garden pond.
Sep 26
Chess strategy and tactics
One of the charms of the game of chess is the interplay between tactics and strategy. Tactics refers to "traps", "tricks" or "combinations" that achieve checkmate or material advantage within a few moves (more or less) while strategy refers to achieving long-term goals through the proper development or arrangement of the pieces on the board in the absence of any short-term opportunities.
Aug 15
Animation
This animation moves at 10 frames per second.
This animation moves at 2 frames per second. At this rate, the individual frames should be discernible.
Jun 21
Film noir
This still from The Big Combo (1955) demonstrates the visual style of film noir at its most extreme. John Alton, the film's cinematographer, created many of the iconic images of film noir.
Jun 08
Google, Inc.
References
- Mahadevan, Jeremy (Nov. 16, 2005). "Googlicious". New Straits Times, p. L12–L13.
- "What's the catch?" (Nov. 16, 2005). New Straits Times, p. L13.
Reading
- David Vise and Mark Malseed (2005-11-15). The Google Story, Delacorte Press. ISBN 055380457X.
- John Battelle (2005-09-08). The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture, Portfolio Hardcover.
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