Shriphani ‘PSP’ Palakodety

Weblog of an Aspiring Computer Scientist

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Hebb’s Rule

February 9th, 2009 · 4 Comments · College, Computer Science, Mathematics, python

This post is slightly psychology influenced. Well, in the Psychology class I have been taking this semester (Introduction To Cognitive Learning), I was taught about Neural Networks and a certain Hebb’s Rule which allows a network to remember a previous configuration and use this configuration to interpret new information. We use the following model to [...]

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2008, Fall ‘08, Life Update

January 4th, 2009 · No Comments · College, Computer Science, Daily life, photography

Ok, this post is a few days late but since I have made a habit of thinking hard about personal stuff to blog about and coming up with nothing, I am sure this delay will cause no harm….
So, my fall semester worked out pretty good in the end. I managed a 4.0 GPA and now [...]

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Life Update

December 1st, 2008 · No Comments · College, Computer Science, Daily life, python

So, I am now trying to while away time in this totally freaking awesome thanksgiving break when its just too hard to find vegetarian food (I don’t know why people are hell bent on making life difficult for vegetarians, aren’t plants easier to grow than animals?), or people in this dorm. Well, here is a [...]

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Je Suis Excentrique

November 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment · College, Daily life

As I sit here sipping my 10th cup of coffee ( a clear indication that my coffee drinking habits border on “poisoning” ), I whip up the last remaining lines of code for a Problem on project euler. I can’t help but wonder that my blogging, project euler problem solving frequency has dipped way too [...]

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Suffix Trees

October 19th, 2008 · 4 Comments · College, Computer Science, Daily life, python

Since I was quite bored this week (thanks to an October break I spent entirely in my room) and a homework assignment that quite seriously sucked balls, I decided to read something about strings and read about Suffix trees and decided to whip up an algorithm that would create a neat suffix tree by walking [...]

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Huge Anagram List

August 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment · College, Daily life

It is my first time in a large laboratory and I am loving the silence (although I don’t know how silent this place will be next week and I am also quite apprehensive about letting other majors roam about Computer Scientist territory) Ahem, I am in the Lawson CS Building, in an air conditioned Linux [...]

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