Continuing the Advent of Code theme from the previous post. Figured since this year is going to be my year of CUDA, this would be a good opportunity to take it for a ride. A good April 1st post, but why wait? So, how can we make this even faster than the already fast imperative […]

This holiday season my brief indulgence was solving the Advent of Code puzzles. One was about the look-and-say sequence. It starts with “1” and grows as follows: 1 is read off as “one 1” or 11. 11 is read off as “two 1s” or 21. 21 is read off as “one 2, then one 1” […]

I love GPU programming for precisely this: it forces and enables you to think about a solution in a non-linear fashion in more than one sense of the word. The Problem Given a set , output a set In other words, pretend our array is cyclical, and we want all partial sums of the array […]

The Problem This is a problem for which no polynomial time solution exists, although a pseudo-polynomial (polynomial in the degree of the maximum element) does exist. In this paper, the algorithm proposed for the sum-function with full information is simple enough. For the original problem with the difference funcition, the algorithm is simple as well: […]

As my former boss and mentor used to say, in order to understand recursion one must first understand recursion. This is funny, ha-ha, but if we tweak it slightly we get a really useful statement: in order to understand dynamic programming, one must first understand recursion. Here is an example. Sources Github: http://github.com/fierval/BioInfo Decomposition Problem […]