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SICP Exercise 2.35: Counting leaves of a tree

2021-10-14

Exercise 2.35: Redefine count-leaves from section 2.2.2 as an accumulation:
1(define (count-leaves t)
2    (accumulate <??> <??> (map <??> <??>)))

The count-leaves procedure from section 2.2.2:

1(define (count-leaves x)
2    (cond ((null? x) 0)
3          ((not (pair? x)) 1)
4          (else (+ (count-leaves (car x))
5                   (count-leaves (cdr x))))))

SICP Exercise 2.27: Reversing nested lists

2021-10-12

Exercise 2.27: Modify your reverse procedure of exercise 2.18 to produce a deep-reverse procedure that takes a list as argument and returns as its value the list with its elements reversed and with all sublists deep-reversed as well. For example,
 1(define x (list (list 1 2) (list 3 4)))
 2
 3x
 4((1 2) (3 4))
 5
 6(reverse x)
 7((3 4) (1 2))
 8
 9(deep-reverse x)
10((4 3) (2 1))

First, look at my reverse procedure:

 1#lang racket/base
 2(require racket/trace)
 3
 4(define (reverse items)
 5    (iter items null))
 6
 7(define (iter remaining result)
 8    (trace iter)
 9    (if (null? remaining)
10        result
11        (iter (cdr remaining) (cons (car remaining) result))))
12
13(trace reverse)
14(reverse (list (list 1 2) (list 3 4)))

SICP Exercise 1.25: A simpler expmod?

2021-09-30

Exercise 1.25: Alyssa P. Hacker complains that we went to a lot of extra work in writing expmod. After all, she says, since we already know how to compute exponentials, we could have simply written:
1(define (expmod base exp m)
2    (remainder (fast-expt base exp) m))
Is she correct? Would this procedure serve as well for our fast prime tester? Explain.

First, look at the original algorithm:

 1 (define (expmod base exp m)
 2     (cond ((= exp 0) 1)
 3         ((even? exp)
 4             (remainder
 5                 (square (expmod base (/ exp 2) m))
 6                 m))
 7         (else
 8             (remainder
 9                 (* base (expmod base (- exp 1) m))
10                 m))))

SICP Exercise 1.16: Iterative Exponentiation

2021-09-29

I am reading SICP.

Section 1.2.4 talks about the problem of computing the exponential of a given number.

The authors start with a recursive procedure:

1#lang sicp
2
3(define (expt b n)
4    (if (= n 0)
5        1
6        (* b (expt b (- n 1)))))

This requires O(n) steps and O(n) space.

then an iterative procedure:

 1#lang sicp
 2
 3(define (expt b n)
 4    (expt-iter b n 1))
 5
 6(define (expt-iter b counter product)
 7    (if (= counter 0)
 8        product
 9        (expt-iter b
10                   (- counter 1)
11                   (* b product))))

SICP Exercise 1.14: orders of growth of count-change

2021-09-28

Exercise 1.14: Draw the tree illustrating the process generated by the count-change procedure of section 1.2.2 in making change for 11 cents. What are the orders of growth of the space and number of steps used by this process as the amount to be changed increases?

The count-change procedure:

 1(trace-define (count-change amount)
 2    (cc amount 5))
 3
 4(trace-define (cc amount kinds-of-coins)
 5    (cond ((= amount 0) 1)
 6        ((or (< amount 0) (= kinds-of-coins 0)) 0)
 7        (else (+ (cc amount
 8                     (- kinds-of-coins 1))
 9                 (cc (- amount
10                        (first-denomination kinds-of-coins))
11                     kinds-of-coins)))))
12
13(define (first-denomination kinds-of-coins)
14    (cond ((= kinds-of-coins 1) 1)
15          ((= kinds-of-coins 2) 5)
16          ((= kinds-of-coins 3) 10)
17          ((= kinds-of-coins 4) 25)
18          ((= kinds-of-coins 5) 50)))

URI network-path reference

2021-09-23

Problem

I’ve just updated the code to always prefix the post URI with a slash:

1if !strings.HasPrefix(p.URI, "/") {
2    p.URI = "/" + p.URI
3}

and I think that no need to update the HTML template:

1<a href="/{{ .URI }}">{{ .Title }}</a>

as the redundant slash will be removed. But I was wrong.

Looking at the link address, instead of seeing:

1http://localhost//2021/09/23/uri-network-path-reference

I saw:

1http://0.0.7.229/09/23/uri-network-path-reference

What’s going on?

Troubleshooting

The first question comes to my mind is what does href do if it begins with two slashes?

Side Projects

2021-09-23

vtv: The King of Vietnamese language
blog: my own static site generator
xsplitter: I helped my wife to automate her office tasks
gcal: insert an event into Google Calendar whenever I want to work from home.
zwc: save a draft mail message in Zimbra Web Client
vnr500: I helped my friend to extract top 500 largest Vietnamese enterprises into csv.
salt-osx: manage Mac OS X using SaltStack

Do not use jq when working with large number

2021-09-07

We use etcd to store application configuration. On production, config is loaded from json file by using Python.

I’m wondering if we can use jq to do that. So, I tried something like this:

1host=${ETCD_HOST:-127.0.0.1}
2port=${ETCD_PORT:-2379}
3for key in $(jq -r 'keys[]' "$1"); do
4  value=$(jq -r ".$key" -c "$1")
5  ETCDCTL_API=3 etcdctl --endpoints="$host:$port" put "$key" "$value"
6done

Config is loaded into etcd but some values are not the same as in the JSON file. What is going on?

fish shell - very high CPU usage

2021-07-30

Sometimes my Macbook is loud like a plow, and the culprit is usually docker. This time it’s different, top -u tells me that fish shell is taking up > 100% CPU.

I just switched from zsh to fish about a year ago after having problems with git completion.

My favorite feature about fish is probably autosuggestions. Normally, when I want to run a command again, I can control+R, type a few letters to select the command I want to run. With fish shell, I can type that command and then -> or control+F is fine.

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