March 24, 2006

The Most Important Algorithms. Among them - A* search algorithm, Beam Search, Binary Search, Buchberger's algorithm, Dijkstra's Algorithm and others.
posted by shmopl 18 years ago
  • This is pretty good. I used to like running through basic sorts on paper in college. I've still got my copy of Data Structures and Algorithms by Aho/Hopcroft/Ullman. Anyone want it? I really don't want it any more.
  • What, no bubblesort? No "Hello World?" This list is incomplete.
  • Al Gore Rhythms. Fuck him and his conga drums.
  • *snif* *snif* I smell math. >set run /hide
  • This is a crappy link. Posted by a self linker as cover for his self link, too. Let this be eeked as well.
  • Self-linker? Have I posted a link to my works???
  • Explain these algorithms. Their names tell me nothing. Now I want to know how to work them. Which buttons do I press? Who do I bribe? To whom should I write and complain?
  • It's for code monkeys. You wouldn't have use for them unless you're writing software. Special algorithms for performing searches, sorting data, calculating greatest common denominator, that kind of thing.
  • But will it get the chicks? I mean in truckloads?
  • Oh, sure. You'd use heapsort, for instance, if you're writing a program that at some point needs to take an unordered list of data and sort it alphanumerically. My ability to do this got me blown by a sixteen-year-old at a Cheap Trick concert. Then, if you wanted, you could perform a binary search to efficiently search through all that sorted data and find a particular record. So forth. Very useful algorithm that got me anal sex with a stewardess in an LAX bathroom.
  • well goddamn - I need to get in on that non-sequential cross-referencing piped 'n sorted brazilian ass-shakin' action!
  • Back in the '80's my mastery of multidimensional subscripted variable arrays got me a three-way with a pair of emergency room nurses in a hospital elevator. Brains out, stat!
  • I'd just like to volunteer that I'm in computer science and sometimes nerd talk actually *does* get me going! :D
  • *twirls flash drive keyring lasciviously*
  • And welcome to MoFi, GeekySarah.
  • Oh, why thank you! I'm not so new here that I don't recognize everyone else, though. I am an attentive lurker!
  • I'd just like to volunteer that I'm in computer science and sometimes nerd talk actually *does* get me going! :D I'd just like to volunteer that the reason you didn't get more responses to that is because the heads of about 2/3 of the male monkeys just exploded.
  • I'm a little disappointed that there aren't any Voronoi algorithms in that list. And I would like to state, for the record, that algorithms have never brought me any carnal gratification. No carnal gratification with anybody else, that is.
  • Lara! Shhhhh! *combs hair, smooths eyebrows*
  • algorithm algomusic algomygal ... well, sneaky al!
  • /collapse