Swizec's articles in the "algorithm" category
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Anything's a sorting problem if you squint hard enough
What's the most algorithmically fun code you've written recently? 🤔 Here's mine: A dataviz using a grid of triangles that fits into the client's logo.
September 7th, 2021
Aho-Corasick string matching algorithm in Haskell
October 5th, 2012
Amdahl's law in action - 27s to 0.03s by changing a function
August 17th, 2012
An elegant way to randomly change every list member in Haskell
August 13th, 2012
Levenshtein distance in Haskell
July 6th, 2012
Haskell and randomness
July 2nd, 2012
Programmers are optimists
May 25th, 2012
Web page segmentation
May 16th, 2012
Lychrel numbers
January 27th, 2012
Minimum substring cover problem
January 11th, 2012
Science Wednesday: Self-driving cars
December 14th, 2011
Fun javascript feature
December 7th, 2011
Nondeterministic turing machine simulator in 23 lines of JavaScript
November 23rd, 2011
Implementing a weighed random choice in Clojure
May 26th, 2011
How Men Who Stare At Goats gave me a breakthrough
February 26th, 2010
Software Engineering Lessons from Production
Join Swizec's Newsletter and get insightful emails 💌 on mindsets, tactics, and technical skills for your career. Real lessons from building production software. No bullshit.
"Man, love your simple writing! Yours is the only newsletter I open and only blog that I give a fuck to read & scroll till the end. And wow always take away lessons with me. Inspiring! And very relatable. 👌"