🐍 aprxc — A #Python#CLI tool to approximate the number of distinct values in a file/iterable using the Chakraborty/Vinodchandran/Meel’s (‘coin flip’) #algorithm¹.
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#kdtree and ball trees seem cool, but require full knowledge of the thing I'm searching for. What if it's 7 dimensional and I only know 4 of the values?
I feel like a "parallel kd tree" with a separate binary index on each dimension would work better here.
Reduce depth. Allow unspecified values. It'd also be a snap to create and search each dim in parallel.
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I just shared a post with an IRL friend about a dude who was homeless and on #heroin and once he got clean, he got a #ComputerScience degree with a 4.0 GPA.
Fascinating article from IEEE Spectrum that discusses the carbon footprint of software and how we can both measure and improve it: https://spectrum.ieee.org/green-software
The benefit is not only less carbon, but following some of the principles that are outlined can decrease costs and improve efficiency.
The article references tools such as Firefox Profiler and Ecograder as well as an open source Sustainable Software Engineering course.
#BASIC#ProgrammingLanguages#ComputerScience: "Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language on the college's General Electric GE-225 mainframe.
Little did they know that their creation would go on to democratize computing and inspire generations of programmers over the next six decades."
You need to replace references to the variable "terrainHeightValue" in your code with "terrainHeatValue". You know it's limited to one function, and there are 5-8 instances to be replaced.
(1/2) Data Compression: Theory and Applications - Stanford Course 👇🏼
Stanford University released a new course on data compression methods taught by Prof.Tsachy Weissman, Shubham Chandak, and Pulkit Tandon. As the demand for data increases at an exponential rate, data compression plays a pivotal role in providing efficient storage solutions. The course focuses on the foundations and theory of data compression.
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