Shriphani Palakodety

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Summer and Fall 2010 + SURF 2010

August 26th, 2010 · No Comments · College, Computer Science, Daily life, Mathematics

So, 4 days into this semester I think I have decided my schedule. I am assuming I have a relatively light semester owing to some stupidity I engaged in (screw ups with the coursework). Anyway, here’s my coursework for this semester: CS 352 – Compilers (supposed to be hard) CS 314 – Numerical Methods (this [...]

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Bipartite Matching And Max Flow – Tweaks And Other Observations

July 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Computer Science, Mathematics

A look at the bipartite matching problem and some observations about solving them using max-flow.

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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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Post’s Machine Emulator

January 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Computer Science, Mathematics, python

I was bored as usual and since Combat Arms has begun to slip in my list of pastimes, I decided to write a Post’s Machine Emulator as described in the booklet by V. A. Uspensky titled “Post’s Machine” ( Amazon Link This machine has a tape (infinitely long) and the reel has cells which can [...]

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RPN Calculator – Keeping Boredom Away

January 14th, 2009 · 17 Comments · Daily life, Mathematics, python

Alright, those who know me well are bound to ask, 19 credit hours and you are bored? Answer: Yes. It is still the first week and we don’t seem to have gotten beyond the “introduce your loser self to the other non-interested members of the class” and since I have only 1 programming intensive course [...]

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Curious Fractions

November 14th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Mathematics, python

While suffering from conjuctivitis, fever, a sore throat and what seems to be a case of swollen tonsils determined to make nutrition a pain for the next week or two, I decided to solve a problem on Project Euler. The question I picked was Problem 33: Find all fractions with the given unorthodox cancelling method [...]

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Awesome Developments

October 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Computer Science, Mathematics, python

So, I’ve had the best week of my life and let me tell you folks, nothing’s better than sitting in front of one of the most awesome boxes in the world – the macbook pro. Yes, the alpha and the omega is here, I am now the proud owner of a macbook pro (not the [...]

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Awesome Problem

September 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Computer Science, Mathematics, python

  I had the opportunity to work on an interesting problem:   Find a decent approximation for the Zeta function (large values), given by: So, to make any sort of headway, I decided that I would have to look at the graph. Hence, I whipped up a script in Python: #!/usr/bin/env python #Author: Shriphani Palakodety [...]

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Pythagoras and lambdas…..

August 23rd, 2008 · 7 Comments · Mathematics, python

Here is the first bit of code I’ve ever written at college (on my own computer though, I’ve concentration problems in the lab). I was solving problem 39 of the project euler problem set (and I am ashamed of my work). So the question is: If p is the perimeter of a right angle triangle [...]

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Factoradic

August 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Mathematics, python

I was trying to solve the lexicographic permutation problem yesterday and out of plain curiosity, I decided to carry out some research on Wikipedia. I found this thing called factoradic which is a factorial-based number system. I conveniently used this thing to approach the solution and decided to work out how factoradic actually worked. I [...]

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