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Pls I want to use kolmogrov complexity to compress DNA sequences using python can I have someone that can guild me with the codeIt's not the first time that someone asked me to help out when complexity measures are applied to some sort of biological analysis. Applying the complexity metrics

How Spotify's Shuffle Algorithm Works. Short version: for each artist: take every song by them; randomize their order and assign them a value spread evenly between 0% and 100%; finally, order all songs by that coordinate. It seems like a reasonable approach. Here's an older, slightly more complex version: Balanced shuffle. The downside of both of these is that it's a bit memory heavy, and ...

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Elixir is a functional language built on top of Erlang VM. Therefore it uses Erlang mechanism for communication with nodes. Erlang has one simple rule: everyone connects to everyone. It provides a simple authentication mechanism by tokens called cookie. In this article I want to show how to use remote ...

Get setup with Elixir 1.12 and OTP 24, then run your first Elixir script using Mix.install/2 that uses dependencies.

A quick cheat sheet of the most common elixir syntax. This is a brief guide using the Pareto...

Practically every application we ever write outputs something to the console. It might be for logging purposes, it might be for debugging…

Let's use Elixir to build a simple function to list out all of the files in a directory with subdirectories. We'll need to list out all of the files and folders in the top-level directory and iterate over them. If the item we are iterating over is a file, we'll

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Elixir - If statement, An if statement consists of a Boolean expression followed by one or more statements.

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Functional languages are typically great languages for writing assertive code and Elixir is no exception.

Joy of Elixir is a gentle introduction to programming, aimed at people who already know some things about computers, but who have little-to-no programming experience.

The get_in function can be used to retrieve a nested value in nested maps using a list of keys.

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