
This is a talk I gave at last night’s Ask Later event (formerly known as Techa Kucha) in London. As per the house rules of the night, the format was 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide; in those six-and-two-thirds minutes, I told the tale of my attempt to wangle free booze from the Rupert Murdoch empire with a bit of help from a worldwide puzzle phenomenon, some home-spun OCR algorithms and a most excellent programming language from Japan.
Extreme Sudoku Solving – slides (328K, PDF)
Unfortunately the slides don’t have an awful lot of text on them, so you’ll have to do a lot of the storytelling yourself until I get chance to do a proper write-up…