Source code for this post can be found on my GitHub. It’s great to see technologies evolving over the years. Alea.CUDA has done so in leaps and bounds since the first time I laid eyes on it a couple of years ago. At the time the name seemed unfortunate and hinted at the “aleatic” programming […]

The Problem “Motif finding is a problem of finding common substrings of specified length in a set of strings. In bioinformatics, this is useful for finding transcription binding sites” (recap here). The problem is succinctly stated on Rosalind. Given a set of strings DNA of size t, find “most common” substrings of length k. “Most common” means, that substrings […]

Code for this entry: here. In this first part, we started shamelessly plagiarizing creatively reproducing a Clojure monad that does a great job describing stochastically independent processes. After a few trials I became convinced, that the approach in the blog post mentioned above was indeed optimal: a “natural” approach of modelling an event as a […]

The idea for doing this is not new. There is an excellent series of posts closely tracing an article on applications of functional programming to probability. A colleague of mine has recently called my attention to his own post of two years ago, where he describes a monad that models stochastically independent events in Clojure. […]

Marching on from the last post. Lazy Sequences This is my favorite feature ever. If I want to generate just a few of 10! (nobody even knows how much that is) permutations, I could: provided, the function is defined (as described in the first post): Here I am not sure which language I like more. […]