Clojure is a Lisp dialect for the Java Virtual Machine. Its main features include a software transactional memory system for coherent updates to data structures, transparent access to Java libraries, a dynamic REPL development environment, runtime polymorphism, and built-in concurrent programming ...
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Incrementing colors
I just started messing around with Java's BufferedImage. I had an idea to try to encode a message into a picture by coloring each pixel a certain color that ...
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Flattening a nested map [on hold]
We're migrating our streaming ETL application from Python into Clojure,
the hottest part of the code isn't yet performing as well as our existing
implementation. This looks to be down to the ...
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Improving a color spiral generator
I decided to resurrect an old project of mine and mess around with creating a color spiral.
The code's pretty basic, except for the advance-color function that ...
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Short Clojure digit extraction
I'm new to Clojure, and would appreciate feedback on this short program. The problem I set out to solve was selected at random from Project Euler, and is described in the comments. The part that I'm ...
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Finding the longest path in an equally-weighted tree
Its purpose is to find the longest path in an equally-weighted tree denoted as such:
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1 2
2 3
The first number denotes both the number of vertices and the ...
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Quicklyish finding primes by trial division
I ask because it seems to be taking waaaay more space/time than it should. Also, I know that if I want to be super efficient I should use Java's BitSet and a Sieve of Eratosthenes, but I wrote it like ...
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Python-style object library for Clojure
Background
I am authoring pulley.objective, an Open Source library that provides an object system inspired by Python's object model. I have some features ...
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2048 game implementation in Clojure
This is my first Clojure program. If you want to run it locally please check out https://github.com/achikin/game2048-clj
core.clj
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Multiple files data processing in Clojure
I have made a small script which grabs data into a map from 80 CSV files and calculates some statistics like average, standard deviation etc. It's also adding some additional data to map from filename....
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Scrape 4chan for alive images
I'm trying to learn Clojure recently and I thought writing a simple web app would be a good way to dive in.
This function gets the list of alive threads from the API and reduces, filters and maps ...
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Custom threading macro
To help myself learn macros, I made a custom version of the threading macro that lets you choose which argument the "thread" gets put into.
My main concern is simplifying it, and making it more ...
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Birthday Paradox Tester
I randomly decided to write a program that tests the Birthday Problem/Paradox.
The gist of the problem/paradox is that if you have a group of people in a room, how many people are required for there ...
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Lazy sub sequence
For a genetic algorithm I'm writing, I need to sub-sequence a list, but I need it to be lazy so I can compose it with other lazy functions. If I introduce strictness into the chain, I risk potentially ...
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Shuffling many collections by folding over a numeric range
Often, I find myself folding over a range object if I need to repeatedly transform something. This, to me though, feels like an abuse of ...
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Solving quadratic equation in Clojure
I wrote a function in Clojure to solve quadratic equations using the quadratic formula
The function
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Filtering out illegal moves from a map of available moves
I'm writing a console blackjack game.
To hold all the possible moves a player can make, I have a map that maps a keyboard key to a move keyword:
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A Simple Async Task in Clojure
Purpose of Code: To simulate scraping the web and updating a db, by, presently, adding randomly generated numbers to a "database".
Have I wired up the followin async code properly? Is there a simpler,...
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Get RSS feeds and store them into database
It is my first program in Clojure. It read RSS feed's list from text file, get each feed and store result into sqlite database.
project.clj:
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Project Euler #11 - Largest product in a grid
Problem statement
I've tried to solve the following Euler problem in a very straight-forward way, ideally avoiding recursion if possible and writing it in a functional style.
What is the greatest ...
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Project Euler #6 - Sum square difference
I'd like to get the code below reviewed on all aspects, specifically I wonder if it's common usage to use let like this, as currently more computations are done in ...
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Project Euler #3
I'd like to have the code below reviewed on all aspects.
Task: Largest prime factor
The prime factors of 13195 are 5, 7, 13 and 29.
What is the largest prime factor of the number 600851475143 ...
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Project Euler #1 - Revisited
I'm learning Clojure and solved Project Euler #1, I'd like to have my code reviewed on all aspects. I'm marking this as follow-up of Project Euler #1 because I answered my own question and implemented ...
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Selectively flatten JSON structure
Today I spent quite some time on providing a solution for a Stack Overflow answer. It looked quite easy to me, but my solution is complex.
The question can be found here and this is my answer.
If I ...
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Project Euler #1
I'm learning Clojure and solved Project Euler #1, I'd like to have my code reviewed on all aspects and have one specific question. This is also my first Functional Programming language, I have however ...
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A very simple TODO app's domain model
I am currently rewriting a todo app from java to clojure. This is my first "real" clojure project so I'm not sure that what I write is idiomatic clojure code. I have just finished rewriting the domain ...
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Search for everything at a tile in Minesweeper
I'm writing a Minesweeper clone. I needed a function that returns everything located at a certain tile, and ended up with an atrocious mess. I'd like help making it cleaner and more idiomatic.
The ...
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Resolve double auction orders
Given a vector of seller orders (asks) of a certain product (each order having a price) and buyer orders (bids) of the same product, I'm creating a function that resolves the auction by matching the ...
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Handling async in Clojure
I've defined myself a function for caching requests and their responses in a browser environment; I'm using ClojureScript.
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Pattern match on type in Clojure spec conformer
I am using Clojure spec to conform (coerce) a 1 or 2 value of a number type or string into a 1, 2 or :clojure.spec/invalid.
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PE4: Largest Palindrome Product (Clojure)
I solved Project Euler 4 using Clojure Lisp.
A palindromic number reads the same both ways. The largest palindrome made from the product of two 2-digit numbers is 9009 = 91 × 99.
Find the largest ...
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Escape the Trolls, or just walking through a maze
Clojure beginner, looking to improve this code I submitted for Escape the Trolls, a Weekly Programming challenge over in reddit. No trolls yet, just walking through a maze for now.
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Round-tripping from LinkedHashMaps to Clojure collections
I'm trying to implement round-tripping from LinkedHashMaps to Clojure collections. The implementation below works for smaller collections, but larger collections raise ...
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Intersection of two lists in clojure
context: this is somewhat related to project euler problem 5, which is:
What is the smallest positive number that is evenly divisible by all of the numbers from 1 to 20?
I apply prime number ...
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Generate all permutations in Clojure
Given a set, generate all permutations:
(permutations #{1 4 5}) => ((5 4 1) (4 5 1) (5 1 4) (1 5 4) (4 1 5) (1 4 5))
Here's what I cobbled together:
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Functional Merge Sort
I just finished this Merge Sort in Clojure, structured according to ex. 22-26 of this workshop.
The main question I have can be answered without spending time understanding the code: ...
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Clojure performance for solving Project Euler 72 (counting proper reduced fractions)
This is a solution of Project Euler 72 in Java. How may proper reduced fractions \$\dfrac{n}{d}\$ are there, where \$n < d \le 10^6\$?
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The Miller-Rabin Primality Test in Clojure
I am new to clojure and I wanted to test out my skills by taking an existing implementation written in Python and writing it in Clojure.
Concerns
My main concerns are where I use ...
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Eight queens puzzle
Problem
In the famous eight queens puzzle, one must place eight queens on a chessboard without letting any queen threaten any other queen. There are 92 (or 12, depending on how you count) solutions ...
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Adding/removing map values: unsymmetric implementation
I am learning Clojure by implementing a simplistic resource reservation system. At its core are the two functions for placing/canceling reservations for a given resource:
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Print matrix in spiral order
I have a task formulated like this
Please print a matrix in spiral order, clockwise from outer rings to inner rings.
I decided to implement it in Clojure.
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Wrapping a character code for a Caesar Cipher
I'm writing a Caesar Cipher. To deal with characters being shifted to outside of the "normal" printable ASCII range ([32 126]), I'm having them "wrapped" to the max/...
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Exercism: clean and format a phone number in Clojure
Problem statement
Phone Number
Write a program that cleans up user-entered phone numbers so that they can be sent SMS messages.
The rules are as follows:
If the phone number is ...
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Formatting a date in ClojureScript
I want to convert strings with the iso date format (2015-08-02) to the default format of our app (2 Aug 2015) in ClojureScript. ...
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Dueling beings on a grid
I'm remaking an old program of mine in Clojure. It involves "Beings" (generic entities capable of attacking and breeding) let loose in a confined space.
I've noticed a pattern of taking a record, ...
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Building blocks of Life
I'm learning Clojure, and decided to write a Conway's Game of Life clone as my starting project. I ended up dicking around for a bit before diving in, and came up with a few functions that I'd like ...
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Spiral a matrix of size NxN filled with integers from 1 up to and including n^2
I have written a solution in Clojure for the following question:
When starting from the number 1 and adding three numbers on each row
a 3x3 matrix is formed as follows:
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Clojure counter
I'm learning clojure ref types and was trying to make a robust counter generating function. Is there any error or improvement on the code? is there a simpler way?
(I want the function to be thread-...
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Filling a Boot with CIDER
I'm trying to put together a workflow for building Clojure applications with Boot in CIDER. To test this workflow, I've written a small example application using Seesaw. My project structure looks ...
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Selecting HTML nodes
I'm new to Clojure, and I'm writing some code that processes HTML. I'm parsing the HTML using clj-tagsoup and then trying to pull out the relevant bits with this function:
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Number of ways to make change for an amount
Task
Write a program that, given the amount to make change for and a list of coins prints out how many different ways you can make change from the coins to STDOUT.
My approach
The number to make ...
