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I used to joke that my job was to continually make myself obsolete. In the current atmosphere of anxiety surrounding the threat posed by AI to job security, that old quip now sounds like an odd position to adopt. However, I think there’s a lesson to be learned. In spite... [Read More]

For this problem, there are 100 prisoners and 100 boxes in two separate rooms. Each box contains a slip of paper with a prisoners number in it. Each prisoner and box is numbered from one to 100. The numbers in the boxes are randomly shuffled. Each prisoner is then given... [Read More]

One task I have come across repeatedly while building APIs or functions that accept GeoJSON is dealing with differing representations. The input data may be a geometry, a feature, or a feature collection. When utilizing PostGIS as a backend, I inevitably run into errors after naively feeding input data directly... [Read More]