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Don’t use python’s list comprehensions for set operations. Use, um, the set type and her functions.
In: Algorithms| Code
9 Sep 2008I’m making, say, 60,000 function calls, each involving two python lists (no duplicates within these lists, so they’re theoretically more like sets), with each having some overlap with the other. I’m making these 60,000 calls, say, 30,000 times. The question: how do I find the symmetric difference of the two lists efficiently via my function [...]
Search engines
16 Oct 2007Search engines are difficult creatures. (In case you didn’t know, Steven tells me I’m “working” on the search engine for the site.) With minimal work, he’d like the algorithmic engine and database to intuit what we meant — even if it isn’t what we asked. The engine, however, lacks a critical feature that disambiguates statements. [...]
I get distracted by code, and we have a new idea
14 Oct 2007I was actually going to write this yesterday, but I somehow ended up coding instead of blogging. This happens a lot, and not just with this project. Most of the time, I procrastinate by coding. It’s awesome because I get a lot accomplished this way, but also not so great because (as you might expect [...]
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