Given a infinite stream of random 0's and 1's that is from a biased (e.g. 1's are more common than 0's by a know factor) but otherwise ideal random number generator, I want to convert it into a (shorter) infinite stream that is just as ideal but also unbiased.
Looking up the definition of entropy finds this graph showing how many bits of output I should, in theory, be able to get from each bit of input.
The question: Is there any practical way to actually implement a converter that is nearly ideally efficient?
I found a post from a while ago that addresses a similar question but I think it's a bit outdated. I realize implementations of JPA tend to be more on the heavy/dense side, so if you know of any lightweight (non-JPA) ORMs I'll most certainly appreciate your input. I did see the answer about ActiveAndroid in the other post and am curious to know if anyone tried it out.
I'm sure this is simple, but I can't seem to figure it out. I need to be able to pass a function an element id, and know what element tag it is.
For example:
<a id="first"></a>
<input id="last" />
If I know the id is "first", how can I get that the tag is "a"?
When I type some Class, e.g. Console, then press ctrl+space and intellisense show hint "Class System.Console Represents standart input, output and error streams...."
How programmatically get this text. Can't find in google, may be I'm stupid noob.
Thanks.
Hi,
I am doing a project in which i require btree or b+tree data structure. but its not an important part of project. it would take my time to write a code for it. I googled it but didn't get anything....
So, can anyone provide java code for btree or b+tree implementation (with insert, delete, search algorithms)??????
it should accept string as input and form btree or b+tree of these string.
The PHP's crc32 support string as input.And For a file , below code will work OFC.
crc32(file_get_contents("myfile.CSV"));
But if file goes huge (2 GB) it might raise out of memory Fatal error.
So any way around to find checksum of huge files ?
select @[email protected]('*')
for xml raw,type
Above statement will generate following alert:
Msg 6819, Level 16, State 3, Line 2
The FOR XML clause is not allowed in a ASSIGNMENT statement.
I have a PCRE regex that looks like this
s/(<input.+?)alt(=".+?".*?>)/$1title$2/
Can anybody help me with making that work on sed?
Eventually can anybody point me to some guide/blog post/whatever that explains differences between sed regex and PCRE?
when I input
mysql -u root -p XXXX dbname < c:/filename.sql
alway get this error "error 1064 <42000:" you have an error in your SQL suntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySql server version for the right syntax to use near .....
what is wrong with this statement?
Hi, I want to send the username and password values which user types in html input elements to server to check if the username and password is valid or not when user click login button, using post request in $.ajax(options) method in jquery, but I don't know how to send those username and password to server. What option should I write in $.ajax(options) method to get those values from server?
What happen if web.config gets updated while ASP (ASP.NET 2.0) server still process client request?
- Will the process be killed?
- If not, will the process read the updates in web.config.
thanks for any input
I am exploring a possibility to write a kind of a notebook analogue that would reproduce the look and feel of using a traditional notebook, but with the added benefit of customizing the page in ways you can't do on paper - ask the program to lay ruled paper here, grid paper there, paste an image, insert a recording from the built-in camera, try to do handwriting recognition on the tablet input, insert some latex for neat formulas and so on. I'm pretty interested in developing it just to see if writing notes on computer can come anywhere close to the comfort plain paper + pencil offer (hard to do IMO) and can always turn it in as a university C++ project, so double gain there.
Coming from the type of project there are certain requirements for the user interface:
the user will be able to zoom, move and rotate the notebook as he wishes and I think it's pretty sensible delegate it to OpenGL, so the prospective GUI needs to work well with OGL (preferably being rendered in it)
the interface should be navigable with as little of keyboard input as user wishes (incorporating some sort of gestures maybe) up to limiting the keyboard keys as modifiers to the pen movements and taps; this includes tablet and possible multitouch support
the interface should keep out of the way where not needed and come up where needed and be easily layerable
the notebook sheet itself will be a container for objects representing the notebook blurbs, so it would be nice if the GUI would be able to overlay some frames over the exact parts of the OpenGL-drawn sheet to signify what can be done with given part (like moving, rotating, deleting, copying, editing etc.) and it's extents
In terms of interface it's probably going to end up similar to Alias' Sketch Book Pro: [picture][http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GGxlzvZW-CY/SeKYA_oBdSI/AAAAAAAAErE/J6A0kyXiuqA/s400/Autodesk_Alias_SketchBook_Pro_2.jpg]
As far as toolkits go I'm considering Qt and nui, but I'm not really aware how well would they match up the requirements and how well would they handle such an application.
As far as I know you can somehow coerce Qt into doing widget drawing with OpenGL, but on the other hand I heard voices it's slot-signal framework isn't exactly optimal and requires it's own preprocessor and I don't know how hard would be to do all the custom widgets I would need (say color-wheel, ruler, blurb frames, blurb selection, tablet-targeted pop-up menu etc.) in the constraints of Qt. Also quite a few Qt programs I've had on my machine seemed really sluggish, but it may be attributed to me having old PC or programmers using Qt suboptimally rather to the framework itself.
As for [nui][http://www.libnui.net/] I know it's also cross-platform and all of the basic things you would require of a GUI toolkit and what is the biggest plus it is OpenGL-enabled from the start, but I don't know how it is with custom widgets and other facets and it certainly has smaller userbase and less elaborate documentation than Qt.
The question goes as this:
Does any of these toolkits fulfill (preferably all of) the requirements or there is a well fitting toolkit I haven't come across or maybe I should just roll up my sleeves, get SFML (or maybe Clutter would be more suited to this?) and something like FastDelegates or libsigc++ and program the GUI framework from the ground up myself?
I would be very glad if anyone had experience with a similar GUI project and can offer some comments on how well these toolkits hold up or is it worthwhile to pursue own GUI toolkit in this case.
Sorry for longwindedness, duh.
Here is my problem:
I will provide the source code of my application as input and what I want as output is a visual representation of the relationship between classes, method calls etc.
Is there some tool to do this?
I have a WPF user control ...which is in MVVM. The user control(which contains a listview) need data from the page (where it is included). I have to set a property in View's code behind to get this data input. Will this comply with MVVM(But MVVM pattern do not support adding code in code behind file of view as far as i know).if not, what is the way for the same?
Is there a way to test the html from the response of:
response = self.client.get('/user/login/')
I want a detailed check like input ids, and other attributes. Also, how about sessions that has been set? is it possible to check their values in the test?
How to (try)parse a single String to DateTime in "DD/MM/YYYY" format? (VB.Net)
For example: I use input string "30/12/1999" (30 December 1999), how to (try)parse it to DateTime?
What SQL query should I perform to get the result set expected, giving the first element of the chain (2) as input data, or any of them ?
table name: changes
+----+---------------+---------------+
| id | new_record_id | old_record_id |
+----+---------------+---------------+
| 1| 4| 2|
| -- non relevant data -- |
| 6| 7| 4|
| -- non relevant data -- |
| 11| 13| 7|
| 12| 14| 13|
| -- non relevant data -- |
| 31| 20| 14|
+----+---------------+---------------+
Result set expected:
+--+
| 2|
| 4|
| 7|
|13|
|14|
|20|
+--+
I know I should consider change my data model, but: What if I couldn't?
Thank you in advance!
Constant height so just left/right images should be necessary instead of having 4+, right? I'd still want top-to-bottom color gradient (and different one on hover).
If possible, I'd prefer if it was still an <input type='submit'> and not anything weird.
Is there any way (website / imagemagick script etc.) to generate these images automatically or do I need to draw them in some graphics program?
I am a beginner in UNIX. I am finding some difficulty in input/output redirection.
ls -l temp
cat temp
Here why temp file is shown in the list and moreover, it is showing 0 characters.
wc temp temp
cat temp
here output is 0 0 0 temp.
Why lines, words, characters are 0.
Please help me to undestand this concept.
can i have a validation which do exactly opposite to validates_uniqueness_of? i.e. i would like to show a error message when the user input is NOT exist in database.
thanks all. :)
I have seen a few times people using -1 as opposed to 0 when working with neural networks for the input data. How is this better and does it effect any of the mathematics to implement it?
Edit: Using feedforward and back prop
Edit 2: I gave it a go but the network stopped learning so I assume the maths would have to change somewhere?
I'm writing an iPhone web app, and I want to automatically focus a text field when the page is loaded, bringing up the keyboard. The usual Javascript:
input.focus();
doesn't seem to be working. Any ideas?
User System and Passwords: I was looking through MD5 stuff, and I am wondering what is the normal/good practice for passwords. Right now, I think people super encrypt the passwords and store the hashes. If so, how does password checking work? I just have the input password go through the encryption process again and then check the hash with the stored one, correct?
This question may contradict the above, but should my salt ever be a randomly generated value?