Building a queue in Mojo
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The Mojo programming language is officially open source, so what better opportunity to dig around and see what it can do? I decided on a simple graph search problem, Advent of Code Day 12, 2022.
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The Mojo programming language is officially open source, so what better opportunity to dig around and see what it can do? I decided on a simple graph search problem, Advent of Code Day 12, 2022.
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What began as a quick recap of my experience doing Advent of Code 2023 (my solutions) quickly devolved into a screed about what I dislike about Julia. But first, some math.
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Image: the Julia set for $f(z) = z^4 + 0.6 + 0.55i$, which the author could not elegantly work into this post.
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Let’s begin with the results, because that’s why you’re here. Go was faster than Rust in this test. I do not know why. When Go outperforms Rust, it means you’ve done something wrong in Rust. I can’t tell what. All the code is in this repo.
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In chapter XIII of Jane Eyre, Mr. Rochester asks to see Jane’s painting portfolio. In an act of 19th century negging, Mr. Rochester identifies three of her paintings as most worthy:
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Kate Bush has (roughly) 29 singles that charted in the U.K. The count is a little foggy because it’s not clear what should and shouldn’t be called a single. For example, Running Up That Hill charted three times: once in 1985, supporting the Hounds of Love Album; again in 2012 as a remixed version played for the 2012 London Olympic Games; and once again in 2022 after it was used in a Stranger Things episode. So I made some executive decisions and ended up with a list of 29.
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I’ve given up following the narrative. There’s some kind of receiver and some beacons and maybe still some monkeys? I don’t know. The puzzles have gotten more challenging, more interesting, and more time-consuming.
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The elves are on their expedition. They’re building tree houses and tossing people into rivers. A computer was involved somehow. We approached this with both Rust and Haskell.
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The elves are preparing for their expedition and we’re using coding to help them do it. I’m using this year’s Advent of Code to acquire/sharpen skills in Rust and Haskell programming and the purpose of this post is to summarize my thoughts on the first five days.
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Today we have set ourselves the task of providing technically correct but actually appalling answers to some common coding exercises. The exercises under consideration are
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The source code for this post is available on my github.
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The GPS watch I bought last November was broken. Industry standard GPS watches make a recording once every second and log it to a .gpx file, but mine wasn’t doing that. Sometimes it was logging every second, sometimes it wasn’t. In this post, I explore and visualize the data logged by my failing GPS device.