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