Manim, and variations of a geometry problem
IMC 2024 problem 5 Every year the University College London hosts the International Mathematics Competitions for College Students (IMC), which is often hosted in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. I participa...
Guilherme Sena
Palindromes palindromes palindromes!
This post explores the solution of a problem I proposed to my undergrad students when I was a TA in a computational molecular biology course. It involves palindromes so readers who suffer from aibo...
Wavefront alignments and the Myers edit distance algorithm
This is post explores the basis for the wavefront alignment algorithm, a 2020 paper that finds the alignment between two sequences \(A\) and \(B\) in \(O((|A| + |B|)s)\), where \(s\) is the alignme...
The most naive phylogenetic reconstruction algorithm
The full source code for this post can be found on GitHub. This post was motivated by the following question: what would be the simplest problem we could formulate to introduce a computer science ...
Setting up a blog
I am configuring this blog if I want to communicate, write or document things using markdown and figures. This post is to test if I can write some code with syntax highlight and some math. Here’s ...