2023

Imagine a shared resource, such as a compute server. Users can submit jobs to the server. The resource is “free”, in the sense that no costs are imposed on the users. The question is how to best assign and prioritize jobs when multiple users submit jobs simultaneously.

The (notorious) Dirac delta-function is usually introduced as a function with the following properties: \[ \delta(x) = \begin{cases} 0 & \qquad x \neq 0 \\ \text{“$\infty$”} & \qquad x = 0 \end{cases} \]

Over the holidays, I sat down and wrote a casual turn-based strategy game. Aside from the obvious fun aspect, one major motivation was to gain experience with the pyglet game library, which I wanted to evaluate as a potentially general, light-weight GUI library for Python.

Over the holidays, I had the opportunity to work on a spare time project, and so I sat down and wrote a casual, turn-based strategy game; a variant (you might say: a clone) of the KDE game Konquest.