Influence - Robert Cialdini
Following my new year new me resolution, I’ve finished reading the first book of the year (started in December 2017 anyway).
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Having fun with queues
Recently I’ve been reading Okasaki’s Purely Functional Data Structures. In the first few chapters, the book discusses several really interesting ideas, that ...
Nerd sniping: prison break edition
First, relevant xkcd.
Bloomberg CodeCon 2017
Went to Bloomberg’s headquarters in New York for a coding contest a few days ago. It looks more like a recruiting event than an actual contest, as the proble...
Euler Path: 8 Lines Solution
The problem of Euler path marked a very fundamental moment in algorithm studies. When Euler posed the 7-bridge problem, there was no mathematical tool to sol...
TIW: Subset Sum
Subset sum, aka the coin change problem, is a very specific problem that for some reason gets mentioned a lot. The problem is very simple: given some coins o...
Brief Intro to Segment Tree
Something I just learned - segment tree, is a data structure more advanced and generalized than binary indexed tree. Even though I just learned it and might ...
Tinkering with Deep Learning Style Transfer
A while ago, Prisma was quite popular on social media and everyone was filtering pictures with its artistic filters. Got some free time yesterday, so I thoug...