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Students in CPSSD Provide 72% of Ireland's Total Score on Kattis

Kattis is an online programming problem archive that gives you points for each problem you solve in relation to how difficult the problem is. It then aggregates the total points of people within a university, and within a country, based on an adjusted sum of

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30 Day Music Challenge: What music I listen to vs. What I think I do

The following image was floating around the internet this month (in varying degrees of blurriness): The goal is to share a song on social media for each day of the month of April matching the respecting description. Being the wannabe music fan I am, I

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123rum123 at the IrlCPC 2017

The Irish Collegiate Programming Contest (IrlCPC) 2017 was held on Saturday, 25th of March, in sunny University College Cork. I was competing with two of my housemates, Cian Ruane, and Ross O'Sullivan. Myself, Cian Ruane, and Stefan Kennedy came 2nd place at the IrlCPC last

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Coireacht - Our 3-Hour-ish Hackathon Project at HackYourWayDay

On Friday the 10th of February, myself and my compadre Cian Ruane took part in the HackYourWayDay hackathon in the NDRC that we had seen publicised around the place the previous week. The hackathon was themed around Eircodes, which are Ireland's new controversial postcodes. I'm

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Parsing Project Euler Progress with PyOCR

I do a lot of problems on Project Euler. It is a really cool site full of mathematically-flavoured programming problems that are too difficult for me. My homepage right now keeps some live stats about my progress on Project Euler and some similar sites. Unfortunately,

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