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Rust resources
Rust for beginners (from Microsoft)
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C++: Unordered maps and sets for non-primitive types
Since C++ 11, we can use unordered sets and unordered maps. However, these data structures only seem to work with primitive types and strings. If you need a pair or a vector as the key, you’re out of luck. Fortunately, … Continue reading
QuickSelect
Theory Quickselect on Wikipedia Implementation in C++ Practice https://leetcode.com/problems/kth-largest-element-in-an-array/
Fenwick tree (aka Binary Indexed Tree)
Theory TopCoder – Binary Indexed Trees Algorithms Live – Fenwick tree Wikipedia – Fenwick tree Implementation in C++ Practice Kattis – Movie collection AtCoder – B Fenwick Tree
Disjoint Set Union (aka Union-Find)
Theory Algorithms, 4th edition by Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne 1.5 Case Study: Union-Find Union Find on Cubits.ai Implementation in C++ Practice https://atcoder.jp/contests/practice2/tasks/practice2_a
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Retries Exponential Backoff And Jitter AWS SDK Retry behavior Error retries and exponential backoff in AWS Example in Java The following example is not meant to be complete, its goal is to give you a good idea of how to … Continue reading
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Isolate the rightmost (least-significant) bit
Fast & elegant: Tests Output Brute force Output for the new version Practice 231. Power of Two 191. Number of 1 Bits Related concepts Two’s complement
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Generate files with random bytes
The following command grabs 20 Mb of random bytes from /dev/urandom and saves it to rnd.bin: Generate a bunch of files:
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Kadane’s algorithm
I just learned about this algorithm, which is considered a dynamic programming approach. However, depending on the implementation, it might not resemble dynamic programming at all. Check out the implementation presented on Wikipedia: That does not look like dynamic programming … Continue reading
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