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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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Chart Based Animations In Excel VBA

I've been working on re-writing comfortablydrei's answer to this PPCG Question regarding creating a illusion animation in pure Excel VBA. So far, I've been able to rewrite the code to function in VBA, ...
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4×4 cofactor in SSE

The cofactor of a 4×4 matrix can be used to convert a "regular geometry" matrix into the matrix that transforms the normals. It's an alternative to the common inverse-transpose pattern. In this post I ...
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Julia set in Julia (and other fractals)

I've made the following to draw a series of zooming in images of a fractal. ...
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How to speed up simple linear algebra optimization probelm in Julia?

I implemented the LSDD changepoint detection method decribed in [1] in Julia, to see if I could make it faster than the existing python implementation [2], which is based on a grid search that looks ...
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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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Android component animatable on its height

I'd like to have a code review for a component which is supposed to be animatable on its height. It's supposed to be a transitioning element. I find it quite laggy on my phone. ...

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