History of chess computers: the Minimax
Everyone knows about Deep Blue; it is the first chess computer that beat a reigning world champion—Garry Kasparov. Although losing to Kasparov in 1996, Deep Blue came on top in the rematch in 1997. The matches, however, are not the whole story.
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Welcome to The Deterministic. I share thoughts on mathematics, computer science, and the patterns that connect them.
Java and Education
I had never properly learned how OOP worked or how the ideas behind it contributed to good code. I had never written humongous coding projects until recently (thanks to me being a competitive programmer).
Jun 3, 2025
An actual binary search on a linked list???
During my last data structures lecture, our professor was talking about priority queues, selection and insertion sorts. And he mentioned, as a non-examable material, how we might achieve a faster insertion when considering a sorted sequence-based priority queueue.
Mar 20, 2025
Creating a clone of yourself
After OpenAI become mainstream enough, I started becoming fascinated by searching for the existence of an AI model that would mimic myself or another person’s text messages…
Feb 22, 2025
Some reflection on writing
Writing is awesome. It allows you to clear your mind, your thoughts, your ideas by forcing you to think about them properly and write about them, speak about them.
May 17, 2025
Why Mathematics is Lonely
I found a couple reasons to why mathematics is lonely—around our culture and even between mathematicians—and why there is some hope.
Jun 22, 2024
Generating Primes that Fit in 32 Bits
After reading this post on HackerNews, I also decided to see how efficient of a code I could write that would compute some result of all primes that fit in 32 bits. I actually thought of doing it for 64 bits at first, since that would have been really interesting, but I soon found out that there might be a bit too many primes at that size.
Apr 16, 2026
Why are we so Slow to Adopt Fresh Ideas?
An idea is a living thing. It has a birth and a growth and an adulthood and a death. These “newborn” ideas are not often faced with excitement but are often faced with a challenging journey towards maturity. Why is it that the “fresh,” bearing the potential for such impact, sometimes encounters resistance within the very areas of knowledge it seeks to enrich?
Apr 8, 2026
Overthinking, Overanalysing
Overthinking and overanalysing leads us to be hopelessly cautious when considering the motions and actions we take. When we expend more mental and emotional energy (into the spiritual world) than is productive, communication between the physical is weakened.
Apr 7, 2026