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Stephen Gould
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Computer scientist and engineer, part-time programmer, woodworker, and full-time father-of-three. Learning to wing foil.
There are many variants of peg puzzles. In this one, the goal is to swap the the red and black pegs. Red can only move right into a free hole; Black only left. Pegs can also jump a single peg of a different colour.

There are over 19M solutions (excluding symmetries) ranging from 46 to 58 moves.
February 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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📢 My team at Meta (including Yaron Lipman and Ricky Chen) is hiring a postdoctoral researcher to help us build the next generation of flow, transport, and diffusion models! Please apply here and message me:

www.metacareers.com/jobs/1459691...
Postdoctoral Researcher, Fundamental AI Research (PhD)
Meta's mission is to build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible.
www.metacareers.com
January 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Made a jewellery box for my daughter. Complete with magic closing drawer.
November 30, 2024 at 7:39 AM
Finished teaching my new course on deep learning for computer vision. You can find the lecture notes here:

users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~sgould/pape...
November 29, 2024 at 9:54 PM
Reposted by Stephen Gould
The illustrated guide to a #PhD

matt.might.net/articles/phd...
November 27, 2024 at 2:51 AM
Every experienced researcher has their own advice for writing scientific papers. Here's mine.

users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~sgould/pape...
November 26, 2024 at 10:54 PM