An Infinitely Long Game
(Drew here.) Let's take a dive into a problem from the 2023 IMO Shortlist. This is C5, one of the hardest shortlist problems this year (but let's be honest, the whole C list was devilishly hard).
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Behind the Scenes of SMO Q4, Part 1: the Proposal Backstory
(David here.) Recently, a problem of mine came out as Q4 on SMO Open 2024. I'll go over how I proposed the problem and the theory behind it, which involves some machine learning ideas (!).
Everything is Nim
(Wee Kean here.) I recently learned some interesting game theory which may or may not (read: will not) be useful in your life. For starters, we begin with the classic game of Nim.