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The examples used here are from the weekly challenge problem statement and demonstrate the working solution. Part 1: String Compression You are given a string of alphabetic characters, $chars. Write a script to compress the string with run-length encoding. A compressed unit can be either a single character or a count followed by a character. BONUS: Write a decompression function. After working so much with recursion for the previous challenge, …

I grew up in the shadow of New York City, and while it was a populated area, the town I lived in lacked a lot of conveniences. We had no fast food chains, no mall, and no department stores. So, we were always forced to leave town to do things like back-to-school shopping. Then it was announced that we would be getting a mall in town and that the anchor …

What's with all the police trucks outside and the cameras everywhere? A father (Josh Hartnett) takes his daughter (Ariel Donoghue) to a huge gig she’s always wanted to go to. Soon he realises there’s an increased police presence at the stadium, and that they might be on the hunt for him. I haven’t seen a Shyamalan film in ages now, and certainly not any of his later ‘renaissance’ stuff. This …

You can stack some monads in such a way that the composition is also a monad. This article is part of a series of articles about functor relationships. In a previous article you learned that nested functors form a functor. You may have wondered if monads compose in the same way. Does a monad nested in a monad form a monad? As far as I know, there's no universal rule …

On the 243 bus ride to yesterday’s matinee show at Cafe Oto, I finished Samantha Harvey’s short novel Orbital, the winner of this year’s Booker Prize. Starting as a description of the lives of six astronauts aboard a space station, it finishes as a meditation on the world — the planet, the universe — and our place in it. With that in my head, listening to Evan Parker, Matthew Wright …

It has been over 25 years since a handful of pragmatic idealists with a penchant for audaciousness started The Long Now Foundation. It was 10 years before the iPhone. Two years before Google. The human genome was about halfway sequenced. Danny Hillis kept telling his friends about a 10,000-year clock. This always led to great conversations about time and civilization and humanity. An institution began to take shape around them. …

“Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs' Matt Sebastian, explores the darker side of classic '80s alternative, including vintage goth, post-punk and industrial.

The latest in Mister Stormy's Monday Selection (Occasional Series - Acts of Random Archive Rummaging) is Dig Me recorded at Arny's Shack, Dorset, on May 1983. Click for detailed information & download. An edited extract is available on YouTube...

Session 271 was played on 11/3/24Morgana, wizard (Rob)Borumar, Triton Thief (Josh)Blotto, Goblin Fighter (Lanse)Nick, Fighter 7 (Me)Koltic, Cleric 7 (NPC)Aroon, Fighter 5 (NPC)Jameth, Fighter 5 (NPC)Lor’Koth, Dwarf 5 (NPC)The party wraps back around to the southwest corner of the sewers. Along the way they’re confronted with a trio of slime dwarves sloshing their way in the muck. Nick and Borumar are hit by them. Blotto pees on them. The fight …

A 3D comic accents great storytelling in unexpected ways. It's not just a gimmick! The post 3D Comics Highlight Strong Storytelling appeared first on PIPELINE COMICS.

Team Ratings for Round 11 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ratings at the start of the season. Current Rating Rating at Season Start Difference Stade Toulousain 11.05 8.76 2.30 Bordeaux Begles 5.76 3.96 1.80 Stade Rochelais 4.93 4.85 0.10 Toulon 4.58 5.32 -0.70 Racing 92 2.00 2.75 -0.80 Castres Olympique 1.25 -0.09 …

The Gorilla's DaughterThomas P. KelleyToronto: News Stand Library, 1950160 pages Note: The Gorilla's Daughter is the most sought-after Canadian paperback. It is also the most notorious, though I would argue this has everything to do with the cover. Because copies are so scarce, and access so limited, I'll be relaying the story of the gorilla's daughter from beginning to end. There will be spoilers. Criticism will be kept to a …

This Air Fryer Tofu recipe makes for tasty jagged seasoned chunks that—no joke—taste like chicken nuggets! The texture and flavor combination is absolutely addictive! I know we just did a whole roundup on the individual and irreplaceable virtues of tofu…but for much of my life before age 18 and arguably much of my life after ... View Post

Original airdate: November 24, 2024 The premise: Visiting a strange circus, Lisa encounters the Illustrated Man, who regales her with three unique tales as depicted by his many, many tattoos. The reaction: The spirit of Halloween lives on at The Simpsons and it’s practically Thanksgiving! I imagine the staff had hoped this would air prior to the Treehouse of Horror, as did previous double-dipper spooky specials like “Halloween of Horror” …

This week, we are looking at a map of the area south of Petten in the province of Holland (now North-Holland) in 1730. The water board commissioned the map from Jan Spruytenburgh and Hendrik de Leth. The map tells the history of the landscape, and reclaiming the land to create polders. On the left side, we see the smaller polders surrounding by dikes, created in the medieval period. On the …