Viewing profile — quarktasche

Which part? Figuring out how to efficiently calculate a moving average seems like a good question for basic maths skills to me. About complexity theory, there is already a lot of d…

Wouldn't the question about the moving average be a good one though? It should be quite obvious that you can calculate a moving average without remembering more than the current av…

I don't think the std::chrono example is fair at all. In the C++ case, you specify which clock you want. What kind of clock is DateTime.UtcNow()? Is it monotonic? What's the resolu…

mv mirrorlist mirrorlist.bak rankmirrors -n 10 mirrorlist.bak > mirrorlist

If you like this kind of thing go read this write-up of predicting hands in online poker due to bad implementations of shuffling and PRNG algorithms! Its quite a fun read. https://…

Wolfram Alpha does! http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=energy+to+heat+1l+of+wa...

Might not work in some special cases though. Try: def foo(): a = 4 def bar(): print("a = {a}".format(**locals())) bar() foo() which will raise a KeyError, while it will work fine i…