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Solution for the Random Selection Challenge

Posted on February 23, 2008 by lorg

A few days ago, I wrote up two small Python Challenges. Several people have presented solutions for the first challenge, and I also posted my solution in the comments there. However, the second challenge remained unsolved, and I will present … Continue reading →

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Harvesting with threadmap

Posted on February 22, 2008 by lorg

From time to time, I need to harvest a website, or many websites. For example, to collect the data from IMDB to run the Pagerank algorithm. Other times I need to query some non-web servers. Usually in such cases, I … Continue reading →

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LStrings and ASCII-Plotter at UtilityMill.com

Posted on February 19, 2008 by lorg

It seems Gregory is fond of ascii-art, as he took my scripts, and put them online at utilitymill.com. UtilityMill.com is a cool new website, which allows you to run scripts as small web applications. What Gregory actually did, with just … Continue reading →

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Small Python Challenge No. 3 – Random Selection

Posted on February 10, 2008 by lorg

This time I’ll give two related problems, both not too hard. Lets warm up with the first: You have a mapping between items and probabilities. You need to choose each item with its probability. For example, consider the items [‘good’, … Continue reading →

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