Daniel McLaury

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Still from Bela Tarr's "The Werckmeister Harmonies" showing the main character looking towards something with a combination of fear and disgust.

Chess position with FEN

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Move poster for "Con Air."

Above John Malkovich it says "Nicolas Cage"

Above Nicolas Cage it says "John Cusack"

Above John Cusack it says "John Malkovich"

FEMA Earthquake hazard map for the Western half of the US. Everything is concentrated around the San Andreas Fault or the Intermountain Seismic Belt, except for an isolated giant red dot in Oklahoma

Chess board with FEN

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Photo of a deer crossing a highway offramp with several cars present

picture of a wooly aphid on some green leaves

Chess board with FEN

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A chihuahua in a pink harness on a walk in the woods

Chess position with FEN

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Highlighting indicates that the black queen has just captured the white queen

chess position with FEN

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Highlighting shows that the black queen has just moved from d8 to b6.

three purple flowers with yellow... pistils?

Screenshot of a web page, reading:

Use caution when packing these items:
Lithium batteries

E-cigarettes

Flammables

Aerosol

Corrosives

Explosives

Oxidizers

Radioactive

Toxins

Guns

Steely Dan. Walter Becker is wearing a plaid shirt, jeans, and a belt with a large buckle. Donald Fagan is wearing a black t-shirt, a black leather jacket, jeans, and sunglasses.

A poster with "JUSTIFICATION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION" written at the top, depicting a seaside house and a garage holding five expensive cars.

Picture of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, with Bob and Bing Crosby and Eldee Young added in

Bunny sits in foliage and then hops off down the sidewalk

Still of a lion from the clip above, who has reached the edge of the stage and is now turning around

Photo of Sherb, a Shih Tzu dog, wearing a purple gingham bow tie and a green straw hat with a green gingham hat band.

T-shirt displaying the album cover of Sex Pistols's "God Save the Queen."

The cover depicts the Queen of England with ransom-note typography covering her eyes and mouth.

Image from Google maps showing a cow standing in the middle of a mountain road with the left side of the road being a steep cliff

Image from geoguessr (i.e., google street view) of a man going down the highway on a donkey-driven platform with two wheels. The man is standing upright and wearing a LeBron jersey, shorts, and sandals.

A poster on the wall containing random words tangentially related to molecular biology, like "proteins," "chemical," and "pneumoniae."

First page of the surviving manuscript of the epic of Beowulf.

Embroidered text reading "TELL THE TRUTH" from Billy Wilder's Ace in the Hole.

Damien Hirst's "For the love of God," consisting of a cast of a human skull with real human teeth and covered in reflective diamonds.

Photo of Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian," consisting of a real banana duct taped to a wall

Jeff Koons with one of his hotdog sculptures

Chart showing the performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average over the past month

Screenshot of a paragraph from the Wikipedia page for El Reno, Oklahoma:

Although "el reno" means "the reindeer" in Spanish, the town was actually named, in part, after nearby Fort Reno, with the name "Reno" ultimately derived from Anglicized French "Reynaud".[6] Reindeer are not native to Oklahoma.[citation needed]

$\hl{Highlighted text} is copied from the original source. \section{Data structures} \hl{For the next two chapters, we will depart a little from the previous focus which was by and large on algorithms, and look into their usual companion: data structures. This is not saying there will not be algorithms, or analysis of algorithms, or extensive use of these concentration inequalities and mathematical notions we introduced and went over at great length!} Consider the problem of representing a \emph{subset} of some set of options. For example, when signing up for a website, you may want to select your interests from a list like ``Music,'' ``Theater,`` ``Sports,'' etc. When managing a team of employees you may want to be able to list a given employee's qualifications -- forklift certification, board certification in cardiology, etc. As a general problem, suppose we have a set (or ``universe'') of $m$ possibilities, and we want to be able to represent any subset of this set. There is of course more than one way to do this. In what follows, let $n$ represent the number of elements currently in the set. \begin{enumerate} \item Store the elements sequentially in an array \begin{itemize} \item Lookup takes $O(n)$ time -- just iterate over the list. \item Insertion takes $O(n)$ time -- we have to check that the element isn't already in the list before inserting it. \item Removal takes $O(n)$ time \item The structure takes up $O(n)$ space \end{itemize} \item Store an array of $m$ bits, and set the $k$-th bit to represent the presence of the $k$-th object. \begin{itemize} \item Lookup takes $O(1)$ time -- just check the $k$-th bit \item Insertion takes $O(1)$ time -- just set the $k$-th bit \item Removal takes $O(1)$ time -- just clear the $k$-th bit \item The structure takes up $O(m)$ space. \end{itemize} \item Put an order on the elements and store them in a \emph{sorted} aray$