In this post, I share some exercises of encoding a usual string of English/Latin alphabets into a readable Unicode version with styling but still into a text that can be copied/pasted anywhere without any special app, and then transform the input text into some interesting Unicode symbols (that can also be copied/pasted anywhere as text). […]
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Custom Chess Board Setup for Sim and Puzzles
In addition to solving real-life and abstract challenges, I love playing chess and mulling over different scenarios. When I don’t want to play the entire game from beginning to end, but rather start at a climactic stage, it makes it even more exciting and challenging to play it to the end with someone or even […]
Daily Chess Puzzle
I always loved Chess since I was a mere child. And I still love playing it. If you do too, or just want to improve or learn some chess skills, the following widget might be of interest to you. It brings fresh puzzles daily from chesspuzzle. net site based on famous players but the challenge […]
What would be your NFL team’s Unicode logo?
If you were to select a Unicode symbol for every team in NFL, what would they be? It cannot be graphics, emojis, or ASCII art…you must select a single Unicode character for each team that are in the standardized blocks. That means, the character can be copied and pasted as text in any text editor, […]
Fun with AI: Text and Image->Video
One of the relatively newer tools that came online for the general public designed to transform ideas into AI-generated videos is Hailuo AI. In this post, I’ll share a couple of examples of its outputs based on my paintings, drawings, digital creations, and text prompts. Hailuo’s Conch Video is a product of Minimax, a China-based […]
Python teaser/puzzle 45588-1346
This is a quick Python coding puzzle or brain teaser for educational and/or entertainment purposes. The challenge is quite simple but is useful for learning or refreshing your coding skills while exercising some logical thinking. Objective Write a Python function that returns the top n (highest) values from a list of numbers. For example, given […]
Python teaser/puzzle 45588-1338
This is a quick Python coding puzzle or brain teaser for educational and/or entertainment purposes. The challenge is quite simple but is useful for learning or refreshing your coding skills while exercising some logical thinking. Objective Write a function that returns the maximum difference between any two elements from a list of numbers. If the […]
Python teaser/puzzle 45588-1312
This is a quick Python coding puzzle or brain teaser for educational and/or entertainment purposes. The challenge is quite simple but is useful for learning or refreshing your coding skills while exercising some logical thinking. Objective Write a Python function that takes a list of integers as input and returns the 2 numbers that add […]
Path Navigation Gamification
In an earlier post, I shared a couple of fundamental search and navigation algorithms. You can read it here. In this blog post, I’ll share a fun implementation, a gamification using one of the algorithms. The premise is simple: We have a seeker (depicted by a bandit) whose objective is to find a target (a […]
Pangram Verifier (Python)
Objective Write a script that takes a user-input and checks if it’s a pangram. A pangram is a sentence/phrase/string that contains all letters of the alphabet (in this case, English) at least once. However, technically, a pangram doesn’t necessarily have to be a grammatically correct sentence. The goal of a pangram is to include every […]