Unanswered Questions
956 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Definitional Returns. Solved. Mostly
I have made the bold claim that a longstanding problem in Rebol is "now solved"...that of "definitional returns".
But of course, such claims need some peer review, and there's always some new trick ...
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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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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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Stable variation of built-in sort
Ruby's built-in sorts are unstable. The stable_sort gem monkey-patches Ruby's built-in library to have stable sorts which include nearly all the functionality of the built-in sorts, but with the ...
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Simulation of a mechanical arm
The code that I am doing is to simulate a scenario where a mechanical arm search pieces closer and these pieces selected the mechanical arm leaves in a position defined closer.
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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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C# Generic high performance vectorized math operations
I'm writing a library which simplifies the usage of intrinsics in C#.
It's a generic library which supports all numeric types.
The goal of this library is to perform these operations at the highest ...
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Unity3D shader for rendering 2D sprites with a pseudo-glitch effect
I'm making a puzzle game in Unity with sprite-based graphics. When the game is paused, I want to hide most game elements, because I don't want the player to be able to pause and leisurely think about ...
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Modeling tabular structure in MSSQL to store data like Excel sheet applying Column inheritance
I've created this database structure to store tabular information (it's a simplification of my real structure but enough to show the point). In it I have Sheets and ...
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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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Red-black tree appears to be slower than std::multimap
I've written a red-black tree in C as an exercise. The tree works and it is not bad, but it is about 10% slower than std::multimap from libstdc++ which I'm ...
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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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Optimizing SymPy Implementation of prime factorization in form of QUBO
I'm trying to reproduce a paper on Prime Factorization. This paper converts the problem into a QUBO form, which then we can map it to an Ising Minimizer. I've basically done everything and I've ...