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Algorithm of the Week: BK-Trees, Part 1 (from "Damn Cool Algorithms")

This is the first post in (hopefully) a series of posts on Damn Cool Algorithms - essentially, any algorithm I think is really Damn Cool, particularly if it's...

0 replies - 5206 views - 04/30/13 by Nick Johnson in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Fountain Codes (from "Damn Cool Algorithms")

That's right, it's time for another episode of the frustratingly infrequent Damn Cool Algorithms series! If you're not familiar with it, you might want to...

0 replies - 13286 views - 04/16/13 by Nick Johnson in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Aho-Corasick String Matching Algorithm in Haskell

Let’s say you have a large piece of text and a dictionary of keywords. How do you quickly locate all the keywords? Aho-Corasick algorithm...

0 replies - 4201 views - 03/19/13 by Swizec Teller in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Coursera's Design and Analysis of Algorithms: Part II

I recently finished the Coursera course Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 2 by Professor Tim Roughgarden of Stanford. I’ve already reviewed part 1,...

0 replies - 4216 views - 03/12/13 by Henrik Warne in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: A Look At Coursera's Design and Analysis of Algorithms: Part I

Last year I finished the Coursera course Design and Analysis of Algorithms I, given by Professor Tim Roughgarden of Stanford. This was my second on-line course...

0 replies - 4508 views - 03/05/13 by Henrik Warne in Articles

ScaleBase Overview – Your complete scale out partner

ScaleBase Overview – Your complete scale out partner Watch the Video below to learn how to scale out your MySQL Database with ScaleBase. Cost-effectively...

0 replies - 257 views - 02/22/13 by Kelley Gemma in Uncategorized

Algorithm of the Week: Basic Planning

You can think of planning as a graph search problem where each node in the graph represents a possible "state" of the reality. A directed edge from nodeA to...

1 replies - 6038 views - 02/12/13 by Ricky Ho in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Bellman-Ford Algorithm in Python

The latest problem of the Algorithms 2 class required us to write an algorithm to calculate the shortest path between two nodes on a graph and one algorithm...

0 replies - 3987 views - 02/05/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Kruskal’s Algorithm using union find in Ruby

I recently wrote a blog post describing my implementation of Kruskal’s algorithm – a greedy algorithm using to find a minimum spanning tree (MST) of a...

0 replies - 2829 views - 01/29/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

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0 replies - 294 views - 01/22/13 by Kelley Gemma in Uncategorized

Algorithm of the Week: Multiplication: Kruskal's Algorithm in Ruby

Last week I wrote a couple of posts showing different implementations of Prim’s algorithm – an algorithm using to find a minimum spanning tree in a graph...

0 replies - 3609 views - 01/22/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Adding Large Integers

Introduction We know how to add two integers using a perfectly simple and useful algorithm learned from school or even earlier. This is perhaps one of the...

0 replies - 4863 views - 01/08/13 by Stoimen Popov in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Bucket Sort

Introduction What’s the fastest way to sort the following sequence [9, 3, 0, 5, 4, 1, 2, 6, 8, 7]? Well, the question is a bit tricky since the input is...

0 replies - 6043 views - 01/02/13 by Stoimen Popov in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Sorting in Linear Time

Radix Sort The first question we ask when we see the phrase “sorting in linear time” should be – 'what’s the catch?' Indeed there’s a catch. ...

1 replies - 6401 views - 12/26/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Integer Linear Time Sorting Algorithms

Most of the sorting algorithms that are used are generally comparison sort. It means that each element of the collection being sorted will be compared to see...

4 replies - 6017 views - 12/18/12 by Baptiste Wicht in Articles