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So that two pegs x + y are replaced with a single peg z, which means that the moves in peg solitaire do not change the value of the game's configuration. (Does not this remind you of 3-purges?) We can also consider the sum of all pegs in a configuration (See Figure 2b-c.) For example, it is clear that the sum of all pegs in the starting position of central solitaire is y - the value of the sole unoccupied hole. The Cayley table of a group collects all the information about the group operation ("+" in our case) in compact form.Īn additional property of "+" can be derived now from its Cayley table, namely, the sum of all three non-zero symbols x, y, z in any order is always 0: x + y + z = 0. Where the new symbol 0 is required to fulfillĪll the properties of the operation "+" can now be summarized in its Cayley table: Further, the operation "+" has been defined for all pairs of three letters, other than x + x, y + y, and z + z. Indeed, for example, z + x = y, but also x + z = y, so that z + x = x + z. The operation thus defined is commutative. Similar notion are used for the remaining rows of the table, so that, for example, y + x = z and z + x = y and so on. Let's write x + y = z to indicate the fact expressed in the first row of the table, namely, that whenever peg x jumps over peg y it always lands in hole z. We may define an operation "+" on letters x, y, z to shorten move Description. Whenever one of the letters points to a peg that jumps over a peg with another letter on it it always lands in a hole labeled by the third letter. The arrangement of letters is very special and has been noticed yet in the classic WW, page 706. Place letters x, y, z as shown in Figure 2a. Would one trade the distinction? It's this amazing observation that led Arie Bialostocki to developing his nice theory which I am going to outline below. The irony is in that from the same position the player can leave the sole remaining peg in the central hole, thus gaining the status of genius, instead of an outstanding player. in Figure 1 shows the position before the last move. Assuming that, e.g., the peg was left in the rightmost hole, part c. above) where one can leave that single peg. ![]() ![]() Not long ago, with the help of very elementary group theory, Arie Bialostocki from University of Idaho proved that there are only five locations (b. Anyone who leaves a single peg elsewhere is an outstanding player. According to the game brochure (Milton Bradley Co., 1986), whoever succeeds in leaving the last peg in the center is a genius. In central solitaire, the player starts with pegs filling all the holes, except for the central one. The goal of a regular game is to remove all pegs but one. The peg that has been jumped over is removed. Pegs (red circles) are allowed to jump over adjacent (vertically or horizontally) pegs. Peg Solitaire (also known as Hi-Q) has very simple rules. Most routers use a technology called DHCP to hand out IP addresses to the devices that connect to them - kind of like being able to park in any free space in the lot. This isn't a great metaphor, but if your router's the big-box store where you go to get The Internet, your device's IP address is its designated space in the parking lot outside. Give your Mac a static IP addressĮvery device on your network, even one connected via Wi-Fi, has an IP address. And if you mess up with Docker, you can just delete the container and start again – no harm, no foul.īefore you start installing software, you'll need to check and adjust a few things on your Mac. Otherwise, we'll be entering Docker commands. ![]() Mostly we'll just be asking it to tell us stuff we need to know. But nothing you type into Terminal here will remotely endanger your machine. If you're nervous about UNIX commands, steel yourself: We'll be using Terminal a lot. You can install it through the Docker app check out the instructions above for details. Kitematic, an easy-to-use graphical interface for managing Docker packages.We've got a simple guide for how to run Docker on your Mac. Docker, a free and friendly app that lets your Mac run containerized software - prebuilt, self-contained packages of code designed to run on any Docker-enabled system.A wired or wireless router that you can configure.An always-on Mac that's connected to your network, running Mac OS Sierra or later, with at least 4GB of RAM.To make your Mac run Pi-hole, you'll need to follow a few more steps than that. If anything, it's easier to set up Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi than on a Mac there, a single terminal command will kick off the installation process. Lest you get too excited, please remember that Pi-hole was written by Linux programmers, whose warm, generous community spirit is matched only by their apparent fondness for creating programs that require a computer science degree to set up and use. I learned an enormous amount from doing this on the fly over the course of my PhD. So that concludes my three-part series on DevonThink for history research. Hyperlinking to the notes I’d made kept their contents and insights fresh and readily accessible, rather than sinking out of sight, and out of mind, into the deep recesses of my database. I found this practice extremely helpful in keeping me mindful of larger themes even as I was mired in archival minutiae - why exactly I was looking at a particular run of sources, what sort of questions I should be asking of them, what I was getting out of looking at them. Labelling them and collecting them into a smart group simply made them easier to find and manage. I tended to write them directly into the folders which contained the sources on which they drew or they might reside in a folder containing articles which had stimulated those thoughts. The reason I used labels and smart groups, rather than creating an ordinary group for these ‘bridge’ notes, is because they’re located all over my database. A lot of this prose ended up directly in the thesis: what you see remaining in the Bridges group above is detritus, the stuff which didn’t make it in. 5), I’d just gone through a whole clutch of booklists from the 1930s, and that paragraph was an early and roughshod attempt to think through some of the trends I’d noticed from the archive. ![]() I used DevonThink’s internal hyperlinking to draft chunks of thematic prose which linked directly to the source files from which I got my ideas and information. Every so often, after some weeks in the archive, I tried to step back from the sources I’d been looking at in order to write and think thematically about them: in other words, to create prose ‘bridges’ between my sources. I started this group during my fieldwork year. My second hack used another label to generate a smart group I called, for want of a better name, ‘Bridges’. This way, I’d have a series of fine-tuned chronologies rather than working with one gigantic all-encompassing timeline. I found this really useful when revisiting and analyzing documents, and wish I’d started it earlier.įor my next database, however, I’d like to implement some method of streamlining my chronologies file (probably with tags) according to theme, biography, country or some other variable. Because their name format was the same as other time-sensitive documents, they show up in my Chronologies group, thus giving me a timeline of source documents which was punctuated by important contemporary events highlighted in orange (see Fig. All events were labelled, and thus highlighted orange. Most of the text files were empty: the important information was always in their titles, though occasionally I would add explanatory notes in the body of the text file. This was my Events group: a collection of text files whose file names detailed major, time-sensitive events. Much later - almost too much later - I made a second improvement to my Chronologies group which I also found helpful and wished I’d started earlier. And because all files are named according to the same format, with the date first, I can sort them alphabetically and get a list of documents in ascending chronological order over the course of a single year (see Fig. This file was automatically included in my 1948 smart group because it met one of the boolean criteria (its name matches the string “1948”). So for example, in the screenshot above, the file highlighted green is a letter to the colonial office dated. Every time I wrote or imported a time-sensitive document into my database, I would name it according to a strict YYYY.MM.DD format. The most important tweak which made this work was that I started and stuck to a system of naming my files. As I worked on the period from roughly 1920 until 1965, I made one smart group for each year according to the following parameters: This is basically a collection of smart groups, each of which contains all source documents and notes pertaining to a single year. ![]() Somewhere along the line, I decided that I needed a system of chronological organization, and came up with a folder I called Chronologies. The first hack concerns timelines the second became a substantial aid to writing up my thesis. Over the course of my PhD research, I made two improvements (read: hacks) to my labels which turned out to be very useful to me. This post is about using labels for content-management. ![]() My previous installment was about database meta-structures, in the context of which I discussed using labels for GTD. 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SetPasswordLength(pb, pb.Password.Length) Static void PasswordChanged(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) Private static void OnIsMonitoringChanged(DependencyObject d, DependencyPropert圜hangedEventArgs e) Public static readonly DependencyProperty PasswordLengthProperty =ĭependencyProperty.RegisterAttached("PasswordLength", typeof(int), typeof(PasswordBoxMonitor), new UIPropertyMetadata(0)) Obj.SetValue(PasswordLengthProperty, value) Public static void SetPasswordLength(DependencyObject obj, int value) Return (int)obj.GetValue(PasswordLengthProperty) Public static int GetPasswordLength(DependencyObject obj) Public static readonly DependencyProperty IsMonitoringProperty =ĭependencyProperty.RegisterAttached("IsMonitoring", typeof(bool), typeof(PasswordBoxMonitor), new UIPropertyMetadata(false, OnIsMonitoringChanged)) Obj.SetValue(IsMonitoringProperty, value) Public static void SetIsMonitoring(DependencyObject obj, bool value) Return (bool)obj.GetValue(IsMonitoringProperty) Public static bool GetIsMonitoring(DependencyObject obj) Public class PasswordBoxMonitor : DependencyObject But you can use attached properties here. ![]() Also PasswordBox is sealed, so you can't override this notification behaviour. The only problem here is that PasswordBox.Password property is not a dependency property, and you can't use it in trigger. ![]() General approach is the same: you write custom control style, and show watermark whenever password box is empty. |