Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures (opens in new tab)

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242 pointsurbannomad15y ago16 comments

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nrbafna15y ago· 4 in thread

a two-minute css-pivot to make homepage a little easier on the eyes.

http://www.csspivot.com/az9fT

sili15y ago

This is awesome. Finally a solution for all those white on black blogs.

gcb15y ago

I disagree. Browser side user-css files are the solution to this 'problem' (honestly, my main gripe is low contrast, mainly the gray on white that is the last fashion these days)

opera is the only one that got it right. easy to write the css in a way it works for most sites, and a very convenient way to turn it on/off. too bad opera is ridden with bugs since 8.5 and so i gave up.

achompas15y ago

I'm on Firefox 3.6 and this did nothing to the page's appearance.

nrbafna15y ago

Don't know what's wrong there.

Anyways, it's just a width, line-height, font changes. Just to show a little bit of CSS could have helped and is just for the homepage. Could make a custom css for it, if you want. The site is immensely useful, though.

also, here's a screenshot if you want to compare. http://i.imgur.com/fnu8L.png. again, nothing big though :)

quant1815y ago· 2 in thread

There's insane amounts of great stuff hidden in the various nooks and crannies of the NIST website. Some of my other favorites:

Engineering Statistics Handbook http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/index.htm

Digital Library of Mathematical Functions http://dlmf.nist.gov/

The Quantum Algorithm Zoo http://math.nist.gov/quantum/zoo/

onan_barbarian15y ago

Agreed on the Engineering Statistics Handbook, especially Section 5 on Process Improvement, which contains a decent (and free) treatment of Design of Experiments. A lot of the earlier sections are ok but not as sharply interesting, but their DoE stuff is quite good.

Entaroadun15y ago

I was just reading this section yesterday!

thejbf15y ago· 1 in thread

This dictionary looks like it's the index of The Algorithm Design Manual by Skiena: http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steve-Skiena/d...

arasraj15y ago

I was thinking the same thing. The catalog of algorithms at the end of the book is indispensable.

This site does seem to cover a much broader range of algorithms though.

sphynx15y ago

Haha, there is a definition of Marlena:

Definition: A wonderful wife. Every man should have such an incredible wife. We got married in 1976, too, and life's only gotten better.

http://xlinux.nist.gov/dads//HTML/marlena.html

bmohlenhoff15y ago

So, how many of these algorithms do you think are covered by litigatable software patents?

Hexstream15y ago

Nothing for Rete? Come on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rete_algorithm

andrewcooke15y ago

"Don't use this to cheat" - how quaint. There was once a time when there was an economics of scarcity in information...

misterbwong15y ago

If you're interested in glossaries of this type, there's a great one (with pictures!) in the back of The Algorithm Design Manual by Steven Skiena.

http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena/...

beck515y ago

Interesting, Would be great if there were some sort of tag/taglike system for the properties/usages.

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