Good morning. I received a comment from Dmytro regarding the post Slow Sum suggesting the use of a priority queue instead of a stream. I appreciate the comment and suggestion. Continue reading “Slow Sum – Revisited”
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Largest Triple Products – Revisited
!!! UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE !!!
I received a comment indicating an issue with the largestValues() function. The issue has been corrected. The code has been updated. Thanks for noting the issue.
Good morning! It is 04:15 AM and it is a relatively warm day. Last evening before going to bed I decided to hopefully get up a little earlier than usual. I have a permanent alarm on my phone for 06:00 AM. I use it as a fail-safe in case I do not naturally wake up before. Today I wanted to get this post done and take a look at a test I left running overnight. My wife has a doctor’s appointment early today and it is a 45 minute drive from home. She has to fast so I will follow suit. We should be leaving home around 06:45 AM.
On a separate note, I visited the ProtonMail web site. As we all know there are companies that offer free email services. They have redefined what the word free means. The cost is quite heavy regarding your privacy. In the past couple weeks I have been reading about email services. My wife and I are contemplating on opening accounts on a service in the near future. When that happens, you will see a new email address at the bottom of the posts. Continue reading “Largest Triple Products – Revisited”
Can you solve it? Java Solution
Good morning. Hope you are doing well. It is a dark, foggy and cold morning in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. I woke up around 05:00 AM. I finished reading the article Does Facebook Use Sensitive Data for Advertising Purposes? article in the Communications of the ACM magazine. I though the article was interesting. Apparently Facebook has a set of several thousand categories of which up to 1000 can be applied to each user. Not sure if there is an opt out setting. The authors of the paper suggested a tool that can be used in a couple browsers to check and delete the advertising labels assigned to your account. Continue reading “Can you solve it? Java Solution”
Balanced Split
Today it is Friday. I woke up around 04:30 AM. I wanted to generate this post before breakfast. In addition the cleaning lady will be here around 08:00 AM. In addition I have to prepare breakfast for my wife and me and shower.
I started to read an article regarding Facebook on the last issue of Communications of the Association for Computer Machinery. The article Does Facebook use sensitive data for advertising purposes? called my attention. I have not finished reading the article. I will make some comments when done. Continue reading “Balanced Split”
Slow Sum
I am tired. It has been a long week. I got lots of stuff done. It is already dark. The good thing is that today is December 11. On December 21 winter starts. That is only ten days away. After December 21 the days start getting longer in the northern hemisphere!!!
Just to push a little and get one more problem in before the end of the workweek, I decided to work on Slow Sum. This is just one problem in a set of about a couple dozen in the Facebook web site. Continue reading “Slow Sum”
Largest Triple Products
Once again it is Friday during the COVID-19 pandemic. Not much to say due to the fact that outside work not much is changing. So far the COVID-19 vaccine development programs appear to be moving forward. Earlier this week UK started vaccinating people in nursing homes.
One of the sons of my best friend was married last year and moved to the UK. His wife and he had a baby boy about three months ago. My friend’s son, his spouse and newborn arrived earlier today for a month long visit. Hope they have a great time. Hopefully a month from now with the help of vaccines things will be getting better all over the world. Continue reading “Largest Triple Products”
Reverse Operations
In the past three days the high for the day has been in the mid to upper 40s. Since late fall a considerable amount of leaves has been accumulating in the entrance at home. Yesterday just before lunch I picked up the dead leaves. This morning some started to collect. I guess this is due to the orientation and shape of the entrance.
Last evening I also read an interesting article titled After Centuries, a Seemingly Simple Math Problem Gets an Exact Solution by Steve Nadis published in Quanta Magazine. Apparently a German mathematician named Ingo Ullisch figured out an exact solution for a problem. Good for him. What I liked more than the problem or its solution is the last paragraph in the article. In my humble opinion, this reaffirms the fact that reading and experimenting is the best way to learn. Continue reading “Reverse Operations”
Queue Removal in Java
Good day! Hopefully your day has started on the right note. Last evening my wife and I watched Ava on Netflix. I like movies with spies and action. Perhaps the plot could have been more realistic and credible. We gave the movie a thumb up.
Earlier today I decided to work on the Facebook coding practice problem Queue Removals. The problem provides a single sample test. In addition, when you run your code, it will be checked against two tests. There are no additional hints. There are no additional tests. Continue reading “Queue Removal in Java”
Balance Brackets
It is pitch dark in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Before calling it a day I decided to try one more practice problem from the Facebook web site. Balance Brackets is a very common problem. In general the idea is that you are given a set of brackets and are sked to determine if the brackets are balanced.
I knew I have solved similar versions of the problem. When done with the code I move to a different computer and type in the contents for the post. I looked up in my web site for the string “balanced brackets” and found Balanced Brackets and Balanced Brackets – Possible Second Attempt. I generated the post in 2016 and 2017 respectively. I guess, we will have a third version. Continue reading “Balance Brackets”
Encrypted Words
Today is Friday. The current temperature is about 40 F which is not bad for this time of the year. Tomorrow is my youngest sister birthday. I believe she is still in China. I will send her a message wishing her a nice day.
I have a few problems solve from a Facebook coding practice questions site. I should post them over the weekend if something else does not come up. My wife and I are planning on getting groceries done at the end of the day so we can remain at home over the weekend. Grocery stores tend to have much more activity on weekends. Continue reading “Encrypted Words”