Day 1: Practiced some graph and tree algorithms problems. Got to know about the Linux stack frames from the Hardware Software Interface course. Wrote the code mentioned in the first part of the debugging tutorial.
Continue reading »I just learned this cool bit manipulation staff yesterday and I am dying to write it down. Here it is – Let’s write a program to decide if a number is a power of 2.
Continue reading »I am going to do something new from this week. Well, it’s not completely new since I used to do it in my last job. I am going to write my weekly goals so that
Continue reading »Tuesdays are the days of Codo Dojo at RC where you pair with another person and try to solve a problem in one hour. This Tuesday’s problem was the Euler Problem no. 24. Here’s the
Continue reading »I started taking notes in markdown format following David Branner’s suggestion. Here are the two main reasons. They look much better on a browser than on a text editor on a terminal. I can access
Continue reading »Day 1: Labour day holiday. Was out most of the day. No work. Day 2: Got the first cut of a toy information retrieval system working. Calling it NoteRanger. I started reading the book here.
Continue reading »Day 1: Start with the dropin warmup. Can think of an inefficient solution (O(n^2)). Want to do better, hence start understanding how to build a suffix tree. Spend almost two hours without understanding fully how
Continue reading »Day 3: Coding-wise, haven’t done much. But otherwise the day was well-spent in other sense. Met David Branner. David took my first interview when I applied for RC. And he is super-helpful. He gave me
Continue reading »This is almost the end of week 2 at RC. And after much deliberation on my side and discussion with James (one of the facilitators at RC), here are my goals v 1.0 (To have
Continue reading »Here’s my lazy summary of the first three days of week 2 at RC. Day 1: Continue working on BitFunnel. By working, I mean trying to integrate a piece of old code into the new
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