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Q&A How do I find disjoint sets in a dataset

I have a dataset of car bookings like this: car_id user_id 1 1 2 1 1 2 3 3 1 2 3 3 In this dataset, two separate groups/sets of cars and users...

2 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by andreas‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A How to efficiently remove every occurrence of one string inside another

I have two strings and want to remove every occurrence of the second string inside the first one starting from the beginning of the first string and as if each occurrence was removed immediately. ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by dumplings‭  ·  edited 2y ago by __blackjack__‭

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Q&A Why do you need virtual machines in these examples? [closed]

I added the numbering. It's a virtual machine. Basically, it's one or more computers pretending to be one or more computers. Believe it or not, this is incredibly useful. Say you have som...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  closed 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A How can I combine every (number) of pictures and create multiple panorama images, just once? [closed]

Pre-suppose I have pictures numbered 1 to 400. I want to simultaneously combine every 4 pics in 1, so that I end up with 100 collages. Picture 1-4, 5-8, 9-12 ... will be combined. Indubitably it's...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  closed 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A How do I find the order that yields the shortest path?

The Problem I have a path optimization problem that in some ways reminds me of the Traveling Salesman Problem, but differs in some key respects. I have a group of items that need to be used by a m...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by matthewb‭  ·  edited 3y ago by matthewb‭

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Q&A Search tree supporting efficient bulk sequential insert

For holding ordered sets of keys, there are well-known data structures (the red-black tree, for example) that support O(log(n)) lookup and insertion algorithms. Of course this means that there triv...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by r~~‭  ·  edited 3y ago by r~~‭