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A Sample of Standard ML, the TreeSort Algorithm, and Monoids
In this post we will assume the reader has a passing familiarity with some of the basic concepts of functional programming (the map, fold, and filter functions). We introduce these topics in our Racket...
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Chai – Functions with Applications
As usual, we invite the reader to follow along with the source code from this blog’s Google Code page, and to test programs with the interactive online interpreter. One interpretation of a "Chai...
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Random (Psychedelic) Art
And a Pinch of Python Next semester I am a lab TA for an introductory programming course, and it’s taught in Python. My Python experience has a number of gaps in it, so we’ll have the opportunity for a...
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A Spoonful of Python (and Dynamic Programming)
This primer is a third look at Python, and is admittedly selective in which features we investigate (for instance, we don’t use classes, as in our second primer on random psychedelic images). We do...
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Word Segmentation, or Makingsenseofthis
A First Look at Google’s N-Gram Corpus In this post we will focus on the problem of finding the appropriate word boundaries in strings like “homebuiltairplanes”, as is common in web URLs like...
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