I don't really blog anymore. Click here to go to my main website.

muhuk's blog

Nature, to Be Commanded, Must Be Obeyed

September 03, 2015

The Tree of Life: Top Level Code

We have built the tools that we will use to solve this problem in previous three posts, now it’s time to put them together into an application.

Read more...


September 01, 2015

The Tree of Life: Walking the Tree

This is the third part of The Tree of Life series. You can read the first post here. In this post we will look into parsing paths and finding out the values of the nodes they target.

Read more...


August 27, 2015

The Tree of Life: Rules & Evolution

This is the second part of The Tree of Life series. You can read the first post here.

Read more...


August 25, 2015

The Tree of Life: Reading the Input

This is one of the more involved and more interesting HackerRank challenges I did. These posts will describe how I have arrived at my solution. I don’t claim to have found the perfect solution. In fact I have found some weak points in my code and will note them in these posts. Needless to say you should give it a try yourself before reading this.

Read more...


June 28, 2015

Heavy Duty Report: It Works for Me

I have been training Heavy Duty style since October 2013. It took me some time to unlearn volume training, and leave more is better mentality behind. I am not using unlearning as a purely intellectual activity here. Mike Mentzer’s teachings are clear and logical. But when it comes to weight training your body needs to chew on the ideas too. Unsurprisingly I made mistakes in my first few (3 to 6 month long) cycles. But then I got the hang of it. I can now say, with confidence, that Heavy Duty Training works for me. It works damn well.

Read more...