Long problems over fast ones

I’m better at long problems than fast ones.

On the jiu-jitsu mat I lost almost every round for months before anything improved. I train at Renzo Gracie Academy Azerbaijan about six hours a week, with partners aged 13 to 30 who often share no language with me; technique is how we talk.

Before the imaging tool, I built MINDCUBER, a LEGO Mindstorms Rubik’s cube solver. The solving algorithm worked, but the robot kept stopping; the fault turned out to be the colour sensor misreading the stickers, not my code.