# magic tricks revealed

## assignment 1

all done on paper, old school

## assignment 2

### task 1

written in [typst](https://typst.app/).

made a 2-column research-style document, but with a [dracula color theme](https://draculatheme.com/)

my use of dracula is inspired by the [ride apl](https://github.com/dyalog/ride) editor

also learned to use the [algorithmic](https://typst.app/universe/package/algorithmic/) package for writing pseudocode

### task 2

back to pen and paper

### task 3 & 4

whiteboard at [PVV](https://www.pvv.ntnu.no)

task 4 was particularly inspired by [uiua](https://www.uiua.org) `under`, which is similar to linear algebra diagonalization $P M P^-1$. it is also similar to general algorithmic reduction, where solving `A` to obtain `B` is difficult, then reducing `A` to `a`, solving `a` to obtain `b`, then doing the inverse transformation that got you to `a` on `b` to obtain the wanted solution `B`. i.e. transform from co-domain to domain via duality-magic that may or may not work out, solve it there and recover the answer.

## assignment 3

### task 1

implemented the push-relabel algorithm in [odin](https://www.odin-lang.org) to gain a better understanding of it and also learn more odin. then just analyze the numerical patterns that show up. brute force, yay!

### task 2 (miracle-submission)

i injured my dominant right hand (it's good again now) so i wrote this assignment mirrored with my left hand. why? for fun, and i have practiced writing mirrored with my left hand before. it is significantly easier than writing the normal way with my left hand, in my opinion. i included a mirrored image for readability, which indeed made it easier to spot the inequality error i figured i had made.

i heard leonardo davinci took all his notes mirrored with his left hand, which inspired me to learn this fun skill once upon a time, and now it just happened to come in *hand*.

### task 3

had no more motivation so i just looked up the solution on wikipedia and interpreted it

## assignment 4

i originally didn't intend to complete this one, but here we are

### task 1

did a little bit of it after the lecture, but didn't finish that

### task 2

what's the next step after all these weird handins? a flow chart of course

made in [excalidraw](https://www.excalidraw.com)

### task 3

haven't learned the necessary curriculum for this yet, and who knows if i will