Taiwan's Taichung & Taipei Trip 6 to 13 Feb 2020

日月潭

著名的阿嫲茶叶蛋

九族文化村

天香草莓园

中社花市

贝壳庙

淡水渔人码头

渔人码头的黄昏

台中后里花博园区灯会

象山

十份

火车路放天灯

猫空

猫空杏花村

阳明山

Offer Letter from Caltech

Offer Letter from Yale

NUSH Alumni CNY Gathering in Cambridge on 26 January 2020

Hack & Roll 2020

Pang Wen Yuen, Chang Si Yuan, Wang Jianzhi and Lim Li formed a team to take part in Hack & Roll 2020 from 18 to 19 January 2020, held at NUS.

They came in Top 8 Teams, each member winning a Google Home Mini and Kindle Paperwhite 4.

NUS 2019/2020 Semester 2 Modules

Lim Li is taking the following modules this semester:

CS3235 Computer Security
CS3243 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
CS4231 Parallel and Distributed Algorithms
LAJ2201 Japanese 2
MA2101S Linear Algebra II (S)
MA3233 Combinatorics and Graphs II
PC1432 Physics IIE

Singapore Chemistry Olympiad 2019 Results

Singapore Physics Olympiad 2019 Results

NUSH Families and Friends Gathering 29 Dec 2019

Family Christmas Gathering

Playing Nintendo Switch games

Playing Bingo

NUS 2019/2020 Semester 1 Exam Results

Lim Li's NUS Year 2 Semester 1 Exam Results

^CS2105 A-
^CS2107 A+
*GEQ1000 Completed (Satisfactory)
*GER1000 A-
#MA2104 A-
#MA2213 A-
#MA2214 A+
#MA3110S A+

^account for CS CAP
#account for MA CAP
*account for both CS CAP and MA CAP

CAP for Computer Science (CS): 4.88
CAP for Mathematics (MA): 4.81

Simple Puzzle Games...

Some of Lim Jeck's and my favorite puzzle games which are currently on winter sale on steam, till 3rd Jan 2020.

Stephen Sausage Roll

Original: $26

Now: $6.50

A simple 3D puzzle game. Simple mechanics, yet elegant solutions.

Recursed

Original: $8.50

Now: $2.12

Platform puzzle game with pointers and recursion. Also has free DLC.

Baba is You

Original: $14.50

Now: $11.60

trailer

SMMC 2019 Singapore's Results

The Simon Marais Mathematics Competition (SMMC) 2019 is an undergraduate Mathematics Competition in Asia-Pacific which was held on 12 October 2019. A total of 393 individuals and 289 pairs entered the competition.

Singapore's Individual Prize Winners (Name, University, Score)
4th place: A$1000
Yap Jit Wu (National University of Singapore), 44

Singapore's Pairs Prize Winners (Name, University, Score)
7th place (joint): Total A$8000, A$666.67 per student
Lim Li & Ling Yan Hao (National University of Singapore), 42

University Prize Winners:
1st place: A$20,000
National University of Singapore, 173

Refer to full results here

2019 ICPC Asia Manila Regional Programming Contest

The 2019 ICPC Asia Manila Regional Programming Contest will be held from 14 - 15 December in Manila, Philippines. It is hosted by Ateno de Manila University.

The 5-hr contest will commence at 1000 hrs local time (same as Singapore time), on 15 December.

NUS has sent 2 teams:
3Sophonomore: Robin Yu, Kwee Lung Sin, Sergio Vierig
7 Halim: Steven Wijaya, Yehezkiel Raymundo, Lim Li

Check live scoreboard here (will freeze at 1 hr before contest ends)

Team 7 Halim came in 1st. Each contestant won an Acer notebook and 3 google duffle bags (for each First Solved)

With NUS staff-in-charge, Mr Akshay Narayan (right). Robin is already in Manila.

Anime Jigsaw Puzzles

かぐや様は告らせたい～天才たちの恋愛頭脳戦. 500-pc.
Fixed by Lim Li, Si Yuan, Peanut, me on 6/12/19 in about 2 hrs

Cells at Work. 1000-pc.
Fixed by Lim Jeck, Lim Li, Peanut, me on 11/12/19 in about 3 hrs

CMO 2019 Singapore Team Results

(Not in order of merit)
Gold - Aloysius Ng, Year 5, RI
Silver - Benson Lin, Year 5, HCI
Silver - Timothy Ho, Year 5, NUSH
Silver - Tan Wee Kean, Year 5, RI
Silver - David Toh, Year 5, RI
Bronze - Chen Xinyi, Year 5, RI

Congratulations!

CMO 2019 Singapore Team

David Toh, Chen Xinyi, Tan Wee Kean, Benson Lin, Timothy Ho, Aloysius Ng

The China Mathematical Olympiad 2019 will be held in Wuhan, Hubei Province, from 25 to 30 November. It is hosted by No. 1 Middle School affiliated to Central China Normal University.

The CMO 2019 Singapore Team comprises the following students:
Benson Lin, Year 5, HCI
Timothy Ho, Year 5, NUSH
Chen Xinyi, Year 5, RI
Aloysius Ng, Year 5, RI
Tan Wee Kean, Year 5, RI
David Toh, Year 5, RI

Northwestern Europe Regional Contest (NWERC) 2019

The Northwestern Europe Regional Contest (NWERC) is a contest in which teams from universities all over the Northwestern part of Europe are served a series of algorithmic problems. The goal of each team is to solve as many problems as possible within the 5 hour time limit. Potential solutions are submitted and corrected by an automated judging system. The team that solves the most problems at the end of the contest qualify for the ICPC World Finals 2020.

NWERC 2019 is held in Eindhoven, Netherlands, from 15 - 17 November.

Cambridge has sent the following 3 teams to NWERC 2019:
Treeniceratops
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Treevial (Lim Jeck, Choong Yin and Zoltan are in this team)

List of teams registered are here.

The 5-hr contest will start at 10 am local time (Singapore time 5 pm), 17 Nov (Sunday). You may watch the live scoreboard here.

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Update:
Final Results

2019 ICPC Asia Bangkok Regional Programming Contest

The 2019 ICPC Asia Bangkok Regional Programming Contest will be held on 3rd November in Bangkok, Thailand. It is hosted by Chulalongkorn University.

The 5-hr contest will commence at 0900 hrs local time (Singapore time 1000 hrs).

NUS has sent 2 teams:
3body3: Sidhant Bansal, Bernard Teo, Bay Wei Heng
7 Halim: Steven Wijaya, Yehezkiel Raymundo, Lim Li

From left: Bernard, Wei Heng, Sidhant, Dr Zhao Jin, Yehezkiel, Steven, Lim Li

Full list of teams

Final Results:

#1 Cafe Mountain, Seoul National University
#2 UT a.k.a. Is, University of Tokyo
#3 Kokushi_Muso, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
#4 3body3, National University of Singapore
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#17 7 Halim, National University of Singapore