Cool bitwise stuff
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.
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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
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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 »NoteRanger Beta – a basic text based search
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
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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.
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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
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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 »What I am going to work on at RC (v1.0)
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
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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
Continue reading »Week 1 at the Recurse Center
Here’s my lazy summary of the week that flew by at RC(I am going to refer to Recurse Center as RC from now on). Day 1: Introductions and overwhelmingly more introductions. Hi’s and Hello’s to
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