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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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Problem Statement
The Sports Associations in India (SAI) wants to choose 2 teams of 4 people each
to send to Asian games. There are 13 people who want to be members of
the teams. The SAI tries grouping them in various ways to see which
athletes perform well together. Each grouping gets one test…
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How can one improve him/her problem-solving ability?
Every one says same thing "a real programmer knows how to handle real problem", but they forget how they learn this ability, or where (I know in school, no one gives us any ability, of course in my opinion).
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How can one improve one's problem-solving ability?
Everyone says same thing: "a real programmer knows how to handle real problem." But they forget how they learn this ability, or where (I know in school, no one gives us any ability, of course in my opinion).
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Hi folks,
Got a problem I need help with. Basically I'm gonna develop a form (part of a bigger web app) that lists a load of clients and there business contact, tech contact 1, and tech contact 2.
The idea is rapid data entry. So one form shows each client with their contacts in dropdowns and I…
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Salutations,
Need some help writing this;
a pseudocode that accepts as input the name and sections(160, 220, 280, 350, 425) of a masquerader, continue to run until a blank name is input. After that, pseudocode should process the amount the masquerader pay.Then pseudocode code output masqueraders…
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