Python Strings
When you make a string in Python, but the string shall look like multiple lines in the source code, the following doesn’t work:
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Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm
A well-known interview question: How to determine if a linked-list has a loop? The answer is to have two pointers scanning the linked-list. If the linked-list doesn’t contain any loop, we should be able to find the end of the linked-list. If the linked-list does contain a loop, then with...
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Hackintosh on Mountain Lion
To prepare for evacuation from my current work location, I decided to polish the computer that I intended to bring it back home. I got a Western Digital 3TB hard disk and want to install Mountain Lion on it.
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Game of Probability
In a game, two players, \(A\) and \(B\), performing Bernoulli trials \(t_A\) and
\(t_B\) alternately, with occurance probabilities \(p_A\) and \(p_B\) respectively.
Player \(A\) make his turn first. The game ends whenever a player succeed in
his trial but continues if neither wins.
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Object Oriented Design
Object-oriented programming is easy. You just need to know how to use the “class” keyword in C++ and you’re done. It takes an hour to learn, at most two.
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