Continuing our Algorithm themed questions.
This man wanted to figure out the best way to lay out an electricity network in his country and came up with one of the most commonly used graph algorithms. Which algorithm are we talking about? Bonus points for identifying him.
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Otakar Borůvka’s Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithm.
A slightly different theme round. Following N questions will all be connected to some algorithm or the other. Since I have given out the theme, I will make the questions slightly obscure.
Connect to an algorithm
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Knight’s Tour Algorithm. The Turk (in)famously solved the Knight’s tour along with playing Chess.
Answer to the second part of this question is the answer to the Convoluted Theme.
Before this place sold tomatoes by the pound, it housed one of the most important companies that shaped modern technology. Which company are we talking about?
To crack the convoluted theme, find out what is blacked out on this board. Bonus points for telling us where you can find this board.
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Shockley Semiconductor. The convoluted connect was “Silicon Valley” or more specifically, some of the factors that led to the development of Silicon Valley.
Continuing our convoluted connect round.
What is this?
About the theme, Sumanth Patlolla: Think bigger. Much bigger.
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The map of Arpanet in 1977
This is probably going to give up the Convoluted theme.
Fill in the blanks. World’s first _________________
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Transistor Radio
Continuing our “Convoluted Connect Round”, here is question 2. No one has cracked the theme yet.
What is blocked out in red?
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Homebrew Computer Club
I am going to try a convoluted connect round. The next N questions will be connected to a theme. Slightly convoluted, but easily deducible.
Many people falsely think that the first letter of the last names of these three men (in order) lead to the name of this popular hobby. In reality, it came from a pejorative term like n00b. What are we talking about?
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HAM Radio - It is sometimes claimed that HAM came from the first letter from the last names of three radio pioneers: Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, Edwin Armstrong, and Guglielmo Marconi. However, this cannot be the source of the term as Armstrong was an unknown college student when the term first appeared.
Monument in honor of whom?
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Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.
One of the “worst pieces of technology” (according to media) to hit shelves during the .com boom. What is this?
Hint
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Cuecat, the barcode reader of sorts that let you scan URLs instead of typing them
Identify and connect
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Sir Charles Wheatstone’s family portrait in stereoscope, which he invented.