Gabriel Goh Hao Xiang

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  • A* for life

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    Gabriel Goh
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    (Random 2am thoughts which I attempted to write out coherently) Let’s talk about pathfinding. Suppose you start at point A and want to reach point B. There are a bunch of other points and you can move from point to point through edges, and these edges have non-negative weights. One way to do it is…

  • “This probably works”

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    Advice(?) mainly for consistent Q2/5 solvers. The way I viewed Math Olympiad and contest problems changed a lot from 2022 to 2023. I think this change of strategy really worked for me, so I want to pen it down before I forget. Imagine yourself with 2 progress bars, one for knowledge and one for intuition.…