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Week 5 at Recurse Center

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 they are documented and I can always see the path I have taken compared to the goals I set at […]

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Week 4 at Recurse Center

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. I started taking notes in mark-down following the suggestions made by David. I also took his search-the-notes system. But I […]

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Week 3 at Recurse Center

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 to construct a suffix tree. Need to find a good tutorial on Ukkonen’s algorithm. Start working on BitFunnel again. Download […]