Comment by knuckleheads
1 day ago
Implementing a solver/optimizer for the Minizinc challenge in Rust! It's very fun, and maybe next year I will even try and put it into the competition properly. As well, I am working on tracking down the history of Sudoku prior to Wayne Gould's popularization of it in the 2000's, and I have found some really interesting postings on Japanese forums from the 90's about the game.
This sounds pretty interesting to me (history of Suduko). Do you have a note with some of the links you’ve found?
I will soon! https://threeemojis.substack.com/ just downloaded digithunt (first sudoku generation program I can find evidence of, from 1989) and was playing it some last night. Had Claude decompile it and it was interesting to see how it generates sudokus.