December 28, 2022 Tags: book What does the math tell us about how many job applicants we should look at before hiring one? While onboarding our new employees, how can ideas from the TCP networking protocol help us to identify … Read more
What is an Algorithm? An algorithm is a set of rules that takes in one or more inputs, then performs inner calculations and data manipulations and returns an output or a set of outputs. In short, algorithms make life easy. … Read more
In the previous post, I talked about priority queues. But in my explanation of an alternative implementation, I neglected to mention a few things: The alternative implementation isn’t for production; there are edge cases and unhandled errors. The alternative implementation … Read more
Algorithms by Jeff Erickson 🔥1st edition, June 2019 🔥(Amazon links: US, UK, DE, ES, FR, IT, JP) This web page contains a free electronic version of my self-published textbook Algorithms, along with other lecture notes I have written for various … Read more
Algorithms by Jeff Erickson 🔥1st edition, June 2019 🔥(Amazon links: US, UK, DE, ES, FR, IT, JP) This web page contains a free electronic version of my self-published textbook Algorithms, along with other lecture notes I have written for various … Read more
Intro This book provides a broad introduction to algorithms for decision making under uncertainty. We cover a wide variety of topics related to decision making, introducing the underlying mathematical problem formulations and the algorithms for solving them. Download The full … Read more
As an engineer who primarily works with data and databases I spend a lot of time moving data around, hashing it, compressing it, decompressing it and generally trying to shovel it between VMs and blob stores over TLS. I am … Read more
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This is an upcoming high performance computing book titled “Algorithms for Modern Hardware” by Sergey Slotin. Its intended audience is everyone from performance engineers and practical algorithm researchers to undergraduate computer science students who have just finished an advanced algorithms … Read more
Posted by Nick Johnson | Filed under python, tech, coding, damn-cool-algorithms In a previous Damn Cool Algorithms post, I talked about BK-trees, a clever indexing structure that makes it possible to search for fuzzy matches on a text string based … Read more