Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Android PC: Android + ChromeOS ("Aluminum OS " 2026)

Google confirms Android-PC merger launches next year | The Tech Buzz

Excited About Android for PC? This Leak Gives Us First Glimpse of New OS | PCMag

Google plans to replace ChromeOS with a new platform called Aluminium OS, combining the best of its existing computing software with Android. We may now have seen the first glimpse of the software, but not as Google would have intended.

Book: Competitive Programming CP4

To "compete" with AI, one may need this book :)

Competitive Programming Book

"This Competitive Programming book, 4th edition (CP4) is a must have for every competitive programmer. Mastering the contents of this book is a necessary (but admittedly not sufficient) condition if one wishes to take a leap forward from being just another ordinary coder to being among one of the world's finest competitive programmers."

Competitive Programming Book CP4


Competitive Programming 4 - Book 1: The Lower Bound of Programming Contests in the 2020s: Halim, Steven, Halim, Felix, Effendy, Suhendry: 9781716745522: Amazon.com: Cell Phones & Accessories

Competitive Programming 4 - Book 2: The Lower Bound of Programming Contests in the 2020s: Halim, Steven, Halim, Felix, Effendy, Suhendry: 9781716745515: Amazon.com: Cell Phones & Accessories


 stevenhalim/cpbook-code: CP4 Free Source Code Project (C++17, Java11, Python3 and OCaml) @GitHub

"objective in writing this book is similar with... to further improve humanity by training current students to be more competitive in programming contests. 

The possible long term effect is future Computer Science researchers who are well versed in problem solving skills. 

We use C++ (primary), Python (secondary), Java (tertiary), and OCaml (optional) code to illustrate the algorithmic concepts, i.e., we dislike vague pseudo-code commonly found in many other Computer Science textbooks. 

We also built and heavily use our-own visualization tool: VisuAlgo to help explain the data structure and algorithm concepts to our book readers and beyond."