the cyclist

Alden Scientific

Last seen: Today | Active since 2011

Head of Modeling and Statistics at Alden Scientific. Obsessive runner. Professional Interests: Predictive modeling, statistics. (I don't respond to email via author page, but will usually look at a question if you send me a link to it.)

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Python, R, MATLAB, SQL
Spoken Languages:
English

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The Piggy Bank Problem
Given a cylindrical piggy bank with radius g and height y, return the bank's volume. [ g is first input argument.] Bonus though...

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Say something funny
Say something funny, or not. Your solution will be (fully automatically and objectively) scored based on how clever or funny ...

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Pizza!
Given a circular pizza with radius _z_ and thickness _a_, return the pizza's volume. [ _z_ is first input argument.] Non-scor...

casi 6 años ago

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Sum my indices
Given inputs M and N (in that order), output an MxN matrix whose entries are equal to the sum of their indices. Example input...

casi 7 años ago

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Sum my indices
Given inputs M and N (in that order), output an MxN matrix whose entries are equal to the sum of their indices. Example input...

casi 7 años ago | 3 | 136 solvers

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Cull vector elements that contain a specified digit
Given inputs of (1) a row vector and (2) a digit, identify the elements of that vector that contain the digit, remove them, and ...

casi 8 años ago

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Cull vector elements that contain a specified digit
Given inputs of (1) a row vector and (2) a digit, identify the elements of that vector that contain the digit, remove them, and ...

casi 8 años ago | 1 | 50 solvers

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Flip the bit
Given an input character string (e.g. '1001'), return a character string with the bits flipped ('0110').

más de 8 años ago

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Flip the bit
Given an input character string (e.g. '1001'), return a character string with the bits flipped ('0110').

más de 8 años ago | 2 | 202 solvers

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Multielement indexing of a row array
The row array birthRateChina stores the China birth rate (per 1000 people) for years 2000 to 2012. Write a statement that create...

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Lightning strike distance: Writing a function
Write a function named LightningDistance that outputs "distance" given input "seconds". Seconds is the time from seeing lightnin...

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Pizza value using expression with parentheses
Pizza prices are typically listed by diameter, rather than the more relevant feature of area. Compute a pizza's value (cost per ...

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Create a row array using double colon operator
Create a row array from 9 to 1, using the double colon operator.

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Fahrenheit to Celsius using multiple statements
Given a Fahrenheit value F, convert to a Celsius value C. While the equation is C = 5/9 * (F - 32), as an exercise use two state...

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Circle area using pi
Given a circle's radius, compute the circle's area. Use the built-in mathematical constant pi.

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Simple equation: Annual salary
Given an hourly wage, compute an annual salary by multiplying the wage times 40 and times 50, because salary = wage x 40 hours/w...

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Fix the last element of a cell array
Note: this is lifted directly from <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/82825-puzzler-for-a-monday Puzzler for a Mond...

alrededor de 9 años ago

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Poker Card Deal!
Anyone want to play a card game? Well this is making one deck of cards, with the option of using 2 jokers. The outputs are ...

alrededor de 9 años ago

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Generate a vector like 1,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,4
Generate a vector like 1,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,4 So if n = 3, then return [1 2 2 3 3 3] And if n = 5, then return [1 2 2...

alrededor de 9 años ago

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Duplicate each element of a vector.
for an n-dimensional vector x, the function should return another vector 2n-dimension which each element is repeated twice. Ex...

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Make a 1 hot vector
Make a vector of length _N_ that consists of all zeros except at index _k_, where it has the value 1. Example: Input ...

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Multiply 2 numbers
Very easy, you just have to multiply 2 numbers but you cannot use the following signs (*, /, - ,^) ,mtimes , times, cross, pro...

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The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything
A variation of a previous Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy problem. *Inputs:* Life, the Universe, and Everything *Output:*...

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Insert zeros into vector
Insert zeros after each elements in the vector. Number of zeros is specified as the input parameter. For example: x = [1 ...

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Replace multiples of 5 with NaN
It is required to replace all values in a vector that are multiples of 5 with NaN. Example: input: x = [1 2 5 12 10 7] ...

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Return 'on' or 'off'
When the input is true, return 'on', otherwise, return 'off'.

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distance between two points
compute distance between two points,where it is in Cartesian, Polar or Spherical coordinates.

más de 9 años ago

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Back to basics 26 - Keywords
Covering some basic topics I haven't seen elsewhere on Cody. Return a cell array of strings of all MATLAB keywords.

más de 9 años ago

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How many trades represent all the profit?
Given a list of results from trades made: [1 3 -4 2 -1 2 3] We can add them up to see this series of trades made a profit ...

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Make a random, non-repeating vector.
This is a basic MATLAB operation. It is for instructional purposes. --- If you want to get a random permutation of integer...

más de 9 años ago