Tag: recursion

The Masseuse

This past weekend my youngest son and family who live in Madison, WI stopped by for a visit. They used the opportunity to drive to St. Cloud to visit my granddaughter and my older son and family who live in the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. It is always good to spend time with family. They left for home yesterday afternoon. My wife and I made enough food to feed a lot more people so we will be having leftovers for a few days.

I gave a try to problem 17.16 in the Cracking the Coding Interview book by Gayle Laakmann McDowell. The problem is about a masseuse who has a set of consecutive appointments and wishes to optimize her time by taking care of as many customers as possible with the only caveat that she needs to take a break of 15 minutes within appointments. Continue reading “The Masseuse”

Boggle

Last week read an article that covered the Azure Kinect DK camera. It seems that up to recently you could only get on a list and wait for the hardware and software to become available. It appears that has recently changed and Microsoft is starting to ship the camera.

About two years ago I purchased the AWS DeepLens camera. The camera in combination with an AWS account allows you to experiment with Machine Learning. My free AWS account has expired and I am ready to start experimenting with Azure and Microsoft’s new camera. I will check later today if I can purchase the new camera and will start experimenting with it on the Azure cloud. Continue reading “Boggle”

Family Names

Yesterday my wife had an appointment at the hair salon. The gal that cut her hair commented that there were more people than usual complaining of seasonal allergies; some of them have never before experienced symptoms. My wife and I have some light allergies every season. Some days this year we have experienced strong symptoms. Hopefully things will get better soon.

Last evening in the local news, it was mentioned that due to the amount of water due to rain and melted snow, farmers are a couple weeks behind planting their crops. Having grains and vegetables is more important than experiencing allergy symptoms. Hopefully all will turn out well as the season progresses. The forecast for today calls for strong rain starting around mid morning and ending early tomorrow. Most of the rivers in this area are at or above normal flood levels. Hope the forecast falls short in moisture.

This week I had the opportunity to talk with a fellow software developer. We briefly discussed the approach of traversing a data structure using loops and recursion. It seems that if the number of objects is relatively small, recursion is elegant approach. That said, for large number of objects, recursion may fail due to execution stack limitations. Continue reading “Family Names”

Queue implemented with Stacks

Yesterday I was talking with a coworker about the time it takes (me) to produce a post in this blog. Towards the end of the day, after a nice walk with my wife, I developed the code for this post. My inspiration came from a YouTube video by Irfan Baqui.  I am a firm believer that in order to verify you understand some subject, you need to write about it. The reason for writing is that one explains the subject to the reader. Continue reading “Queue implemented with Stacks”

Fibonacci Sequence

Lately I have not had the time to write in this blog. For the past several months I have been getting up seven days a week, no later than 04:30 AM. I am taking a specialization on Big Data and machine learning. Loving every minute but it does not leave time at the end of the day to sit down and do something in order to be able to write a post. Continue reading “Fibonacci Sequence”