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more simple programming problems - seamus

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More simple programming problems - seamus. January 9th, 2009. 05:31 pm - more simple programming problems. I made two decisions on the programming problem front: I'm going to do them in order from here on out, and I'm going to do them all in python. The first problem) is a pretty simple one, but my initial solution (in perl) had the interesting property of producing warnings about excessive recursion. My python version, linked below, eliminates that by "recursing" manually. Excellent point in re: dict.

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104: arbitrage! - seamus

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January 12th, 2009. 01:49 pm - 104: arbitrage! January 13th, 2009 11:46 am (UTC). I am pretty sure there is a dynamic programming algorithm for this instead of a O(n! Algorithm. IIRC it's a lot like all-pairs-shortest-path. January 13th, 2009 07:03 pm (UTC). Caching the intermediate computations for valuing vectors seems pretty straightforward, if that's what you mean. January 13th, 2009 07:14 pm (UTC). I mean something a little bit stronger than that, I think. 1551121 10 25 paths. Increment i and repeat...

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problem 101: movin' blocks - seamus

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Problem 101: movin' blocks - seamus. January 10th, 2009. 11:55 am - problem 101: movin' blocks. I wonder if there's a more elegant way to handle the last half of process command(), possibly involving an array slice and .reverse()? January 10th, 2009 08:59 pm (UTC). These are fun. I think you could have used enumerate in find column:. Def find column(table, block):. For i, col in enumerate(table):. If block in col: return i. Could the last half of process command be:. Temp stack = table[source col][i:].

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problem 103 - seamus

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Problem 103 - seamus. January 11th, 2009. 02:47 pm - problem 103. Was the first problem so far that really suggested a formal data structure to me, so it's my first experience with python's object system. I also got sucked into an irritating few minutes of debugging before I figured out that .extend() doesn't return the list, so you can't use it with an anonymous list in an assignment. January 12th, 2009 02:09 am (UTC). January 14th, 2009 07:06 pm (UTC). Martin thinks he remembers how to program.

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The twenty-year computer? - Craig R Meyer

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Jun 2nd, 2008. I had a suspicious amount of fun this weekend figuring out what in-the-box intelligence and infrastructure one could build around an off-the-shelf motherboard/CPU/chipset/RAID array to have a computer that could believably "just work" for twenty or thirty years without any skilled attention. It's not easy, but it is. Carl: "Well yes and no, because of firewalls and security concerns. Sometimes it's not just paranoia but the law. Like with HIPA and Sorbanes-Oakley and whatnot.". And that go...

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Now that I've regained consciousness after the debate - Message: I Care.

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Essage: · I. Now that I've regained consciousness after the debate. Just made a donation to Planned Parenthood in honor of Sarah Palin. If you have the means, I recommend you do the same. A notification will be sent to the address for the McCain campaign:. Arlington, VA 22215. Full disclosure: I stole this idea from another blog, but I forget whose, and forgot about the whole thing until earlier tonight. Though it took some time to regain consciousness after, like, passing out from utter disbelief.

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In which I confess my terrorist affiliations - Message: I Care.

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Essage: · I. In which I confess my terrorist affiliations. I have been arrested for violation of a court order; I have met anti-death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean; I have met Seattle Seven member Jeff "the Dude" Dowd; I live in Portland, Oregon; as a child I used a discarded American flag to make a shift dress for one of my Barbies; I have checked forecasts using the web site http:/ weatherunderground.com. Middot Leave a comment. On October 10th, 2008 09:13 pm (UTC). See how much fun this is?

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108: bring out your hate - seamus

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108: bring out your hate - seamus. January 14th, 2009. 04:01 pm - 108: bring out your hate. I just saw that. Problem already, but I haven't looked at his solution. Problem 108. Will study Peter's example and hopefully start to corral these slippery concepts. January 15th, 2009 12:25 am (UTC). Does dynamic programming mean anything other than "store things in memory"? All the explanations seem to be written for math-heads-who-code-a-little not code-heads-who-need-a-little-math. Now it is fast. Proving tha...

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Nevada State of the Distress - Chainsaw Monkey: a love story about a monkey and his chainsaw

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Nevada State of the Distress - Chainsaw Monkey: a love story about a monkey and his chainsaw. 03:00 pm September 10th, 2010. Nevada State of the Distress. Maybe you don't think about Nevada much. I do, because I live here, and because I'm paid by the state. I'm an administrator at UNLV. My thoughts and concerns about Nevada are therefore very personal, and to some degree selfish. Shit is getting real. Here are a few choice quotes from the article that demonstrate the impact of the problem. The Silver Sta...

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Director of Common Sense and Pithy Summations. Entries by tag: a113028. April 22nd, 2006. 48: 47 46 45 44. 47 45 44 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ]. Five is 24 ). 126536.42 real 125734.78 user 0.00 sys. And I'm pretty much going to be awake and active from 9AM saturday, to sometime in the evening on sunday. I can do the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs! April 19th, 2006. Did the peterproblem 2-36 run in 3m42.902s.