Month: August 2019

Reverse A String

!!! UPDATED !!! See below.

Good morning. It is Saturday of Labor Day weekend. The skies in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul are gray and the highs for today are going to be in the mid to upper 60’s. Later today my wife and I will be going to my son’s place to cook paella. My wife and I have been cooking since we were young and we enjoy it. A decade or so ago we purchased a paella pan and have been fixing the dish several times a year. We always make a few changes to the recipe in order to improve on it. Continue reading “Reverse A String”

Is Unique 3

Today is Thursday, one more day to go. The nice thing is that this coming weekend is Labor Day.

As I mentioned in a previous post, I received my Azure Kinect DK camera. I checked the hardware requirements and tried matching to my machines at home. I decided to get a Windows base pedestal instead of a Linux server. The hardware requirements for the computer follow:

System Requirements: Windows® 10 PC or Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with 7th Generation Intel® CoreTM i3 Processor (Dual Core 2.4 GHz with HD620 GPU or faster), USB 3.0 Port, 4 GB RAM. Not available on Windows 10 in S mode. Skeletal/body tracking and other experiences may require more advanced PC hardware. Continue reading “Is Unique 3”

IsUnique2

It is Wednesday evening and the high for the day was about 72F in Apple Valley, MN. The good thing is that most of the day was sunny and as far as I can tell there was no rain. The Minnesota State Fair is going on but my wife and I seldom attend the event.

I received the Azure Kinect DK arrived this afternoon. The box was delivered by FedEx to our next door neighbor. He was home because some workers were replacing his gutters. When he read the label he stopped by and delivered the package. He mentioned that it was interesting that the delivery person did not check the address which was perfectly readable on the box label. Continue reading “IsUnique2”

IsUnique

My wife and her girlfriend are out and about shopping. When they get back in about four hours it will be my wife and I going shopping for jeans for me. Later two of her brothers and wife’s will stop by for lunch. We try to get together about once a month. We rotate homes. This month is our turn.

I am also waiting on an Azure Kinect DK camera from Microsoft. The order says PENDING. I will start experimenting on a daily basis as soon as it arrives. Continue reading “IsUnique”

Rabin-Karp Algorithm

It is a cooler summer Saturday in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. My wife and I are planning to go out for lunch. As soon as she is ready we should leave.

In the recent posts “MongoDB Text Search” and “Find Damaged – Part II” for one reason or another I have been dealing with full text searches. The MongoDB post covers how to use text searches in the database. A software engineer was in the process of experimenting with MongoDB on the cloud (Atlas) and was interested in performing text searches. The need was associated with a work related request. Continue reading “Rabin-Karp Algorithm”

MongoDB Text Search

Yesterday was a warm and humid day in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Last week a software developer mentioned that he was interested in using MongoDB Atlas and needed to do some text searches. I have used text searches in a project a couple years ago. I have also experimented with it using the Community version currently installed in one of my Windows machines. I decided to test it to make sure searching for text in MongoDB is working as advertised.

I could have used an existing MongoDB database and collection but for simplicity I decided to use the example illustrated in the MongoDB documentation for Text Search. I would like to note that in my opinion MongoDB has done a very good job with their documentation. Continue reading “MongoDB Text Search”

BST Search

It is a Saturday in August in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul and it is going to be a warm and humid day. My wife is out shopping with a friend and I am in my home office having fun with Binary Search Trees (BSTs).

This past week I was talking with a software engineer about coding interviews. I have mixed thoughts about them. Not sure about their value as far as finding out if a person is able to develop quality software. Allow me to describe the process which seems to be quite spread around the industry.

The candidate is interviewed by multiple technical people. The idea is to present the candidate with a set of one or more programming problems and expect working code written on a whiteboard. Typically the programming language of choice is up to the candidate. Continue reading “BST Search”