The March Analyst

For a blog post, I wanted to explore minesweeper probabilities. I wrote a program to calculate and display probabilities as you play. This page is a devlog I wrote as I made changes.

Minesweeper 1

Requirements and work outline

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Minesweeper 2

Clean up open source minesweeper implementation

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Minesweeper 3

Some more refactoring / debugging. And built an autosolver.

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Minesweeper 4

Generalize auto-solver

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Minesweeper 5

Calculate probabilities. Try to speed up.

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Minesweeper 6

Design database and background program for calculating and storing minesweeper probabilities. A heartbeat will load new work done by the background program.

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Minesweeper 7

Implement database and background program, with some minor refactoring along the way.

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Minesweeper 8

Finish implementing database and background worker. Implement heartbeat.

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