Loops are a type of control flow structure, in which, a series of statements may be executed repeatedly until some condition is met.
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Speed up Pandas DataFrame expansion to include time-lagged information about events
Using pandas and Python 3, information about a simple timeseries data set is being processed. Within the span of .5 seconds, 3 names are being said. We record the onset of each utterance, the length ...
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Undefined variable outside a foreach loop [migrated]
I've written code that grabs google fonts and adds them as an HTML body class. The code works fine but in my IDE, I am getting an undefined variable message. I can see why as the variable is outside ...
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Applying different filters within loops
What I have is an outer loop which loops through a list of strings, followed by another loop which loops through a list of filters; and if the current column is the current filter in the list of ...
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Array from file
I have this code which is performed each time I click the 'show polygons' button. The problem is that it takes a few seconds to finish running through the code before actually drawing the polygons + ...
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Using Reddit API in R
I'm scraping some comments from Reddit using Reddit JSON API and R. Since the data does not have a flat structure, extracting it is a little tricky, but I've found a way.
To give you a flavour of ...
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More efficient loops to generate unpronounceable words
I wanted to write a function to generate only unpronounceable words. I realised afterwards that the same thing could probably be achieved by just taking out the vowels. Regardless, I feel that there ...
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Optimizing a particle filter weighted selection step
I have a vector with 10000 particles that I use in a Particle Filter. The problem is that it's taking too long to compute the weighted selection of the particles.
I want to use a vector of weights ...
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Pausing a SwingWorker with a Timer
I made a SwingWorker which is fetching tweets using the twitter4j API.
The twitter API will allow 180 queries every 15 minutes, and then throw an exception with ...
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More efficient and readable nested loop to compare keywords
I've created an algorithm which weighs the relevance of a list of articles against two lists of keywords that correlate to attributes of the article.
It works great and is super efficient... but it's ...
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Where is the bottleneck in my Cython code?
The profile tells me it took ~15s to run, but without telling me more.
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Incrementing letter-spacing of one line of text
I was asked to create a script which will increment the letter-spacing of one line of text, until its width matches that of the first line; for use in headline/subheadline text to maintain a block ...
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Sorting numbers into bins
I have two 2D arrays of doubles a and b. Both have two rows and different numbers of columns.
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Finding matching strings in a column
I have col D (in sheet1 called Students), col A (in Sheet2 called Students too) and col B ...
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Showing the domain of a URL
I have such a method which takes a URL, such as http://twitter.com/ttt or twitter.com/dasd, and should show its domain with http: http://twitter.com and name twitter
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While loop uses extra variables - can this be cleaned up?
A piece of my program allows the looping and incrementing of a targeted entity to be used in a while loop somewhere else. Here is a sample of the while loop:
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Assigning value to cells with Excel VBA
I have an Excel Worksheet consisting of two columns, one of which is filled with strings and the other of which is empty. I would like to use VBA to assign the value of the cells in the empty column ...
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Is this roulette selection extension method beautiful or disgusting?
So I just wrote the following extension method to do roulette selection on a generic list. I'm specifically unsure of the use of the while loop. Is this beautiful or a disgusting mess?
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Looping through an array of strings containing approximately 3 million lines of strings
I have a function that loops through an array of strings containing approximately 3 million lines of strings. My problem is this loop is running too slowly and I want to know how to make it faster.
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Periodically checking for internet connection
I have a SwingWorker which checks periodically for an internet connection and updates a jLabel accordingly.
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Basic Imitation of C# Enumerable in VBA - or any other static class
Since implementing static classes in VBA actually seems possible I came up with an idea to try to imitate C#' Enumerable class (well, to some extent...). This is ...
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Printing the sums of numbers from 1 to 10 with only 1 loop
The code below prints sum from 1 to 10:
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1+2 =
1+2+3 =
1+2+3+4 =
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1 + ... 10 = 55
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Foreach loop to generate HTML table with title in first cell of each row in PHP
I've used quite a lot of foreach loops to achieve this type of HTML table that has titles in the first cell of each row:
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Ticket management system
I am building a ticket management system for a state server we use at work. Back end is node.js with multiple front ends. I am rewriting my back end to be more maintainable as the scope grows.
For ...
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Faster way to group email-date pairs by date without many nested for loops?
Given list of pairs (email-date):
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Improving performance for Codility max slice swap problem
Problem Description:
Find the maximum sum of a compact subsequence of array elements after
performing a single swap operation.
Solution:
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More efficient way to draw bufferedimage into another
For what I'm doing, I need to be able to draw a buffered image directly into a larger buffered image. I've searched around a little and still have failed to find a better way, but my current way is ...
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Multiple loops versus multiple stringbuilders
I've come across the following piece of code in a Razor view
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Perfect game loop
I've been working on development for an Android game, and this is the game loop I have so far:
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Efficiently matching IP addresses with a list of CIDRs
I am using Python3 to extract some information from a dictionary that contains 10k of CIDRs, but the running time is pretty long.
Here is my purpose: I have a dictionary of CIDRs (10000) and a list ...
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ListBox Update Handling
I have UserGroups for Users to be assigned to in a ListBox in HTML form. Items from listbox can be multi-selected or completely ...
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List of search results using Selenium
I have written the following code for looping through WebElements in Selenium.
Can someone please provide me with feedback on how to improve my code?
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Looking for matching names among two text files
I'm trying to enhance the execution speed of my below code. I am using only vanilla JavaScript. I would be willing to bring in additional libraries and plugins as long as they will enhance the overall ...
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Numerically stable sum of `double`s
It's known that if you naively sum up a collection of arbitrary floating-point numbers using any floating-point standard (e.g. floats or ...
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Sum the Multiples of 3 and 5
If we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are multiples of 3 or 5, we get 3, 5, 6 and 9. The sum of these multiples is 23.
Find the sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 below N.
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List files and download
The following code list all files in a folder and allows the user to download one of them. It is working but I think it could be done better.
Is there a way to reduce the number of forms to only one ...
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Compare string with wildcard string
I have the following function to compare a string with a wildcard string (containing ? and *), as C# doesn't seem to have a builtin function to do it.
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Is it possible to simplify two for loops and a foreach?
I'm writing a PHP function to collect data from different positions in an given array. I've done it as follows which gives me what I require.
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The efficiency of looping over nested dictionaries in Python
How to make the following code more efficient?
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Editing Surfaces Removing Color
So I have recently tried to load an image and save it, but remove all of a certain color. I'm running the program and it is running really slow, is there a more efficient way to edit an image? My code ...
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Java Cross with characters
I managed to make a perfectly even cross with for loops.
I'm trying to make this cross easier to code. I have to keep it with ...
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Optimizimg ugly if else loop in python [closed]
So, I`m getting some values from large nested dictionary.
s_copy['productStyleVariantSizeInfo']['sizeDimension2SizeOptions'] and f_copy['productStyleVariantSizeInfo']['sizeDimension2SizeOptions'] ...
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Check winner in a Tic Tac Toe game
I have the below code to check for a winner in a Tic Tac Toe game. I'm wondering if this is a good approach, and if there is a better way of doing this (maybe by monitoring the state of the board).
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Ruby-ize for loop - counting all the n-digit numbers that contain the digit 5 anywhere
I wrote this a while back when my fiance was taking a Number Theory class. I wrote about it here and it recently came back to my attention. Anytime I write a for ...
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For and if loops in Python math game [closed]
I'm trying to get my program to iterate through a loop after a person gets the correct answers to the first question. I feel like there is a better way to do things syntactically.
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Optimize PHP foreach loops
By any means, if any can tell me if this code can be more optimized than it already is, please say so. It's a select statement to my PDO class. When I glare over my code, I'm certain there is a lot of ...
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Beehive numbers - using goto in C++
I understand that using goto in C++ code is strictly unadvised, but sometimes, it really reduces the number of lines of code like in the following case.
This is my ...
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Simple parallel foreach loop code correctness
I have both the regular for each loop and its equivalent paralleled version. The loop simply iterates through a collection, looking for the rate key in a local db ...
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Tight loop, string manipulation and calculations
I'm working on some precompilation operations for a world compiler. Currently to identify flags placed by the level designer I need recognize when a specific entity exists at specific coordinates from ...
