Unanswered Questions
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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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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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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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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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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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Selection sort with reduced comparison count: Python iteration 2
Follow up to Selection sort with reduced comparison count - semi-final Iteration?
My goal (and excuse not to tag reinventing…) is to have presentable code to argue the viability of reducing the number ...
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Generic sliding window
The code implements fully generic sliding window with linear complexity. It should usually be paired with transforming iterator to reach full potential.
Sliding window is a grouping of elements by ...
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Fowler–Noll–Vo hash function in Lua
I recently coded this FNV-1a hash function in Lua. Are there any apparent performance improvements that could be implemented?
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Translating CFRM algorithm from Java to Clojure and improving performance
Counterfactual Regret Minimization is an algorithm that can be used to find the Nash Equilibrium for games of incomplete information. I have tried to adapt the exercise from here to Clojure. You can ...
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Dial's heap in Java for integer priority queues
(The entire project is here.)
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I have this priority queue data structure for non-negative integer priority keys. I recall that it is called Dial's heap.
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Dijkstra's algorithm in Perl
I have this Perl module project.
My implementation of the Dijkstra's algorithm follows:
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Selecting child contours in OpenCV
I'm really new to OpenCV. :) I have been working on this for almost an entire day. After hours of sleepless work I would like to know if I can further improve my code.
I have written some code to ...
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Mahjong hand completeness checking algorithm
As a summer project, I have been working on a small-scale, console-based version of Mahjong (the Rummy-like hand completion game, and not the solitaire version). While having prior knowledge of the ...
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Rabin-Karp algorithm implementation
This code uses the Rabin-Karp algorithm to compare two text files. It takes a few minutes when both files contain around 1000 words. How can it be improved?
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