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• Jane Street's ‘Pent-Up’ Frustration 3 / Knight Moves 7 Puzzle: Constraint Satisfaction and Backtracking
  August 1, 2026
  Solving Jane Street's ‘Pent-Up’ Frustration 3 / Knight Moves 7 puzzle with backtracking depth-first search.
  puzzles chess constraint satisfaction problems
• Estimating disease prevalence by fusing pooled and individual testing
  July 24, 2026
  Turning our arXiv paper into an interactive walk-through. Combine pooled and individual disease tests into a single closed-form Bayesian posterior for population prevalence sans MCMC.
  bayesian statistics probability epidemiology
• Jane Street's Robot Baseball Puzzle: Markov Games and Golden Section Search
  July 22, 2026
  Solving Jane Street's Robot Baseball puzzle with Markov game analysis and golden section search, an enjoyable mix of symbolic math and numerical methods.
  puzzles game theory probability baseball
• Hybrid dApps: Implementing Sign-In with Ethereum in Django
  October 4, 2025
  Learn how to implement Sign-In with Ethereum (SIWE) authentication in Django with a custom user model, verification logic, an authentication backend, and login views.
  web development ethereum evm siwe django
• Web Dev for Dirtbags Part 3: VPS Security
  September 3, 2025
  Learn some easy steps to harden your web server's security.
  web development nginx digitalocean ssh security dirtbag
• Web Dev for Dirtbags Part 2: Deploying a Django + React Web App
  September 2, 2025
  Learn to host a React + Django web app under your own domain name on your own server.
  web development nginx digitalocean gunicorn django react dirtbag
• Web Dev for Dirtbags Part 1: Basics and Static Sites
  August 27, 2025
  Learn to host a static webpage under your own domain name on your own server.
  web development nginx digitalocean static site dirtbag