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Recently I competed in nation wide programming contest finals. Not unexpectedly all problems were algorithmic. I lost (40 points out of 600. Winner got ~300). I know why I lost very well - I don't know how to find actual problem in those obfuscated tasks which are life-blood of every competition.…
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I'm trying to implement a genetic algorithm that will calculate the minimum of the Rastrigin functon and I'm having some issues.
I need to represent the chromosome as a binary string and as the Rastrigin's function takes a list of numbers as a parameter, how can decode the chromosome to a list of…
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I am developing a chess program. And have made use of an alpha beta algorithm and a static evaluation function. I have successfully implemented both but I want to improve the evaluation function by automatically tuning the weights assigned to its features. At this point am totally confused about the…
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I'm new to coding , learning it since last year actually.
One of my worst habits is the following:
Often I'm trying to create a solution that is too big , too complex and doesn't achieve what needs to be achieved, when a hacky kludge can make the fit.
One last example was the following (see paste…
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I want to make a solution to find the optimum route of school visit. For example, I want to visit 5 schools (A, B, C, D, E) in my city. Then I must find out what school I should visit first, then the second, then the third etc. with distance, time, and cost criteria. The problem is, I am confused…
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I'm trying to make use of the TheoryAttribute, introduced in NUnit 2.5. Everything works fine as long as the arguments are of a defined type:
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public double[,] Array2X2 = new double[,] { { 1, 0 }, { 0, 1 } };
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public void TestForArbitraryArray(double[,] array)
{
// ...
}
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Hello all!
Being a computer scientist in a research field I am often tasked with working alongside professionals outside of the software domain (think math people, electrical engineer etc), and then translating their theories and ideas into real-world implementations. I often find it difficult when…
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All you have to know about how to properly optimize title tag if you're just starting an onpage optimization campaign. Plus some easy to implement marketing tips to attract endless visitors to your content.
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I have a database with two tables - let's call them Foo and Bar. Each foo may be related to any number of bars, and each bar may be related to any number of foos. I want to be able to retrieve, with one query, the foos that are associated with a certain bar, and the bars that are associated with a…
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I'm looking for a book or books about multicore, multithreaded programming. The perfect book should focus on best practices and maybe include a bit of theory background. I'm not interested in a book which only describes a single library and focuses on its API.
OS actually doesn't matter.
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