As a newcomer to Kotlin, scope functions look like the Builder pattern on steroids.
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Infix functions in Kotlin
Syntactic sugar that surprised me
As a newcomer to Kotlin, I stumbled upon infix functions quite unexpectedly. They don’t immediately look like Python’s Magic Methods or C++’s operator overloading.
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The Maximum Subarray Problem
When ugly and specialized algorithms beat elegant solutions
Given a sequence of numbers $S=\{a_1, \dots, a_N\}$, the maximum subarray is the subsequence $s=\{a_{i}, \dots, a_{j}\}$, with $s \subset S$, such that $\displaystyle\sum_{l=i}^{j} a_l$ is maximum among all possible values of $i$ and $j$ obeying $1 \leq i \leq j \leq N$.
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Random walk analysis of COVID-19 (Part 1)
An attempt to understand what the near future look like
First of all, it is not a secret that we write this blog as a portfolio for skills that we have been sharpening. We understand the severity of this dataset, and we don’t want to just promote ourselves without respecting all these lives that were lost during the past few...
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Solving fashion mnist using ensemble learning
Exploring ensemble techniques
In this post we will try to use some ensemble methods to deal with an image classification problem. It is not the best application for these methods, but we can still find interesting results. Actually, as we will see, despite of the low capacity of the models to capture the...
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