Intuitive explanations for non-intuitive problems: the Monty Hall problem
My take on the famous Monty Hall problem.
Pegasus by Satoshi Kamiya, folded by me
My take on the famous Monty Hall problem.
Technical details of the blockchain file system.
A program for storing files in your own personal blockchain (because you can).
Julia is a fast, flexible and robust language. Having used Julia for 2 weeks, and Python for 7 years, I can already say I prefer Julia. It is not as mature as Python, but I believe it has the potential...
A random forest classifier in 360 lines of Julia code. It is written from (almost) scratch.
Least Recently Used (LRU) caches are a simple way to improve performance for functions with many repeated calls. This post describes an implementation in C++.
I recently solved a particular kind of puzzle, nonograms, using finite state machines for regex matching. This is a very efficient way to do regex matching and in fact formed the basis of the first regex matchers. Finite state machines...
A random forest classifier in 270 lines of Python code. It is written from (almost) scratch. It is modelled on Scikit-Learn’s RandomForestClassifier.
The history of the Mercator map and the integral of the secant
This post describes a Sudoku solver in Python. Even the most challenging Sudoku puzzles can be quickly and efficiently solved with depth first search and constraint propagation.