As a preface I was on the dating website ZOOSK for a few months recently. An individual whose alleged name is Susie W. Alexander got in touch with me via my email address. My first contact is dated October 15, 2020. She sent three pictures that she alleged were of her and perhaps her daughter. She told me a good bit about herself before things started looking like a con artist performance on November 2 – 4, 2020. I think the pictures she sent to me were probably stock online catalog pictures or were staged to show a good looking and affluent individual and perhaps her daughter.
In her emails she alleged that her mother was Danish, and her dad was from Saxony, a state in Germany. She stated that she adored her father, and he was a somewhat famous civil engineer. She relayed the information that her father worked on the bridge-tunnel system over and under the Baltic Sea from Copenhagen, Denmark to a town in Sweden. She also said that she was a civil engineer. She made the remark that she grew-up in Germany then went to the United Kingdom for further schooling. She said that while working in Australia she met her only child’s father. The father, her husband, supposedly died of leukemia around five years ago.
Supposedly in early November Susie made a business junket from New York City to Cape Town, South Africa. On the flight over to South Africa and two-thirds of her luggage, two bags, turned up missing. That means four bags arrived intact and contained a cash stash to pay her construction day workers. The two missing bags contained expensive electronics including a smartphone and laptop. She emailed me asking that I pay for replacement electronics until her next payday. At that point I knew that perhaps Susie was a con artist and I had been targeted to be played like an out-of-tune violin.
Since the Susie episode I have been online accosted by a Lisa from allegedly Bristol, Tennessee (or Virginia). This Lisa character wants me to join a website with pornographic images of probably underage and perhaps sexually trafficked females. I have stated negatively twice to Lisa about logging onto the website. I now believe that Lisa is perhaps a pornographic bot that a hacker or law enforcement hacker created to legally, but unconstitutionally, entrap me.
If I were an ammo mogul I would probably have extensive field testing of each new set of bronze cartridges created. Bronze (copper and tin) is better than brass (copper and zinc) because of the following criteria: it is harder and more corrosion resistant than brass. These tests would include ballistics Doppler radar test firings. Note that this bronze probably comes from Republic of Korea and the .223 Remington cartridges are a product of the Republic of Korea.
Back in February 2015 I implemented the SHA-3 Secure Hashing Function which is a National Institutes of Standards and Technology Standard. This is much less verbose than my 2018 blog post about SHA-3.
A Sudoku is a puzzle consisting of a three-by-three or four-by-four of spaces or numbers. The solution of a three-by-three Sudoku is to fill in the blanks with numbers 1…9 such that each three-by-three unit has only one of the numbers 1…9. Below is a worked example of a Sudoku:
4 1 7 3 6 9 8 2 5
6 3 2 1 5 8 9 4 7
9 5 8 7 2 4 3 1 6
8 2 5 4 3 7 1 6 9
7 9 1 5 8 6 4 3 2
3 4 6 9 1 2 7 5 8
2 8 9 6 4 3 5 7 1
5 7 3 2 9 1 6 8 4
1 6 4 8 7 5 2 9 3
I translated a Python program by Peter Norvig into C#. I used Norvig’s 95 “hard” to solve sudokus. It takes between thirty and fifty seconds on my home desktop to solve the 95 sudokus. Here is the tail of the run to solve the 95 sudokus. You can also solve one of the 95 sudokus by hand.
Way back in the mid-1960s there was an influential psychology book named “Games People Play” by Eric Berne, a psychiatrist, and it was based on the relatively new psychological paradigm entitled Transactional Analysis or TA for short. Transactional analysis was a replacement for Freudian analysis and human beings were represented by Parent (Super-ego), Adult (Ego), and Child (Id). The terms in parentheses are the Freudian terminology. Transactional analysis introduced the transaction which can be between Parent-Parent, Parent-Adult, Parent-Child, Adult-Child, Child-Child, Adult-Adult, and Parent-Parent. Crossed transactions such as Parent-Child, Parent-Adult, Adult-Child should probably be avoided.
Some of more popular games are “if it weren’t for you (IIWFY)” and “let you and him fight (LYAHF)”. IIWFY is a blame game. LYAHY is an ego building game for the person instigating the fight and is very popular at bars among drunks (people of diminished capacity).
The fourteen peg puzzle is a form of amusement which I have seen at my local Cracker Barrel. The puzzle involves fourteen pegs in fifteen holes in a triangular configuration. The top hole is empty. The object of the puzzle is to jump pegs over one another until only one peg is left. Jumped pegs are removed from the board.
Building the Sample
This project should build as is using Visual Studio 2008.
Description
This application was translated from a Turbo Pascal program found in Data Structure Using Turbo Pascal by Thomas M. Boger. Depth-first search with backtracking is utilized to find the solution in the allowed thirteen moves. Two stacks are used to store the moves a move stack and a reverse move stack. The translation process had to take into account a relatively strange Turbo Pascal table and an array whose base index was -1. Boger creates an array for the representation of the fourteen peg puzzle that is a right triangle for internal application operations.
Numerical Explorations 