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Multiplying big numbers using Karatsuba's method

The Karatsuba algorithm, first published in 1962, aims to speed up the multiplication of big numbers by reducing the number of 'single-digit-multiplications' involved. Because of its complexity (...
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Timeoutable computations module

Defines a simple module for timeoutable computations, with the ability to return arbitrary intermediary results on timeout or the final value otherwise. It also allows default return values. The ...
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Realtime concurrent Haskell MIDI buffer

Problem Background MIDI is a serial representation of control signals to a sound generator. Typically, a noteOn message initiates the attack phase of a sound at a given pitch. The note will ...
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Encoding the problem domain of products and prices into the typesystem in F#

I'm trying to design a model for purchasing amounts of products in F#, following the ideas for designing for correctness (source). The idea is to use the type system to capture the different legal ...
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Django on virtual machine - watching changes in static files and autocompiling LESS without inotify

I'm setting up a Django development environment using Vagrant to run an Ubuntu virtual machine on VirtualBox. As this is a student project run mostly by very amateur coders and I want everyone to be ...
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Metropolis Monte Carlo Sampler in Rust

the following is an implementation of the standard Metropolis Hastings Monte Carlo sampler. You can read more about it here. At the end I am going to give you a link to the Rust playground, so you ...
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Implementing Simple Diff in Rebol

I've taken a crack at implementing Simple Diff in Rebol (versions 2 and 3). Simple Diff works by finding the longest common sequence in two series, then recursively applies itself either side of this ...
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Agent-based Immutable Map

I am in the process of removing the last few pieces of mutable state from an F#-based distributed system. Some of the remaining mutable state is a ...
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A* Algorithm in F#

Inspired by this post I looked up A* on wikipedia and went on with my own implementation as seen below where I try to mimic the pseudocode on Wikipedia but in a recursive manner. I would like any ...
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BingWallpapers: Fetches and applies the image of the day from Bing as the wallpaper

I have written a small desktop program nabeelomer/BingWallpapers in Haskell. This is my first time writing Haskell. I was wondering how I can make the code use more functional programming features/...
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Chapter 8 Challenge: Add employee names to a department

The boring but exciting challenge: Using a HashMap and HashSet, create a text interface to allow a user to add employee names ...
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Efficiently generate distinct subsets which sum to a particular value

Related: Find all distinct subsets that sum to a given number This code is supposed to efficiently generate all subsets of a list such that the subset's values sum to a particular target value. For ...
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Xero API Client in Django

I'm not actually that new to writing Python. But I've no formal training and have only learnt to build applications to solve problems for my job out of necessity. Starting to bring my existing skills ...
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K nearest neighbours algorithm

Here is a project that I worked on for a few days in June 2020. Since the algorithm is extremely slow, I looked into methods in order to parallelize operations but did not obtain any satisfactory ...
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Generating integer partitions

I've tried to implement integer partition algorithm as described in blogpost below (author implemented it in Python): Generating integer partitions I'm still trying to learn best practices in ...

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