Finding prime numbers is of critical importance for practical applications such as cryptography. Many public-key methods are only safe from a cryptographic point of view because it’s generally inefficient and slow to compute the prime factors of large numbers. As you go over the article, feel free to watch my explainer video on the Sieve … Read more
This one-liner introduces another basic computer science term: palindromes. Similar to anagrams, palindromes are a popular coding interview question. First things first: What is a Palindrome? “A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward as forward, such as madam or racecar or the number 10201.“ [source] … Read more
What is an Iterative Deepening Depth-First Search Algorithm? Continuing our story even further, after introducing graphs and basic graph traversal algorithms, we will refine the Depth-First Search Algorithm by introducing the iterative depth limitation. An iterative deepening depth-search algorithm also traverses a graph by exploring it vertex-by-vertex, but it does it by following the vertical … Read more
La forma más pitónica de convertir una lista de cadenas en una lista de flotantes es usar una comprensión de listas floats = [float(x) for x in strings]. Recorre todos los elementos de la lista y convierte cada elemento de la lista x en un flotante utilizando la función incorporada float(x). Este artículo muestra las … Read more
Why Learning about Python Anagrams? A popular question in programming interviews is to create an anagram checker. The interviewer wants to test your knowledge about the basic terminology in computer science, and how good you are at developing your own simple algorithms to solve the problems you are facing. In this article, you’ll learn about … Read more
This article explains how to use the REST API to access FTX in Python so that you can build your trading program. As you go through the article, you can also watch our article tutorial video: What is FTX? FTX is an exchange where users can trade various digital assets, such as cryptocurrencies, tokenised stocks … Read more
What is a Depth-First Search (DFS) Algorithm? Building on our previous story about graphs and graph traversal algorithms, this time we will look into a depth-first search algorithm. A depth-search algorithm also traverses a graph by exploring it vertex-by-vertex, but it does it by following the vertical order of the vertices. Although the depth-first search … Read more
The Python installation comes with its own library of functions. The factorial function math.factorial() is included with its math module. Math modules are part of the Python install code package. Math modules or functions such as factorial, square root, sine, and exponential may be used in Python programs. To use them, the import command must … Read more
? Part I: Risk-neutral valuation, Monte Carlo integration vs. the Black-Scholes formula You can find the code in the GitHub repository for this article. The Black-Scholes (BS) pricing model is still a de facto standard method of pricing financial options. Even though there has been much research into improved and possibly more realistic models, the fact … Read more
What is a Graph? When we want to illustrate how one thing relates to another, most often, we would preferably use a graph. From a concrete perspective, a graph is a graphical representation or an image of relationships. A graph is built of entities and their relationships. Entities represent actors in a relationship you are … Read more
What is the Quickselect algorithm? The Quickselect algorithm is a computer algorithm designed to find the kth (e.g. smallest or largest) element from an unordered list. It is based on the idea behind the Quicksort algorithm, invented by the same author, Sir Charles Anthony Richard (Tony) Hoare. Here, k stands for the index of an … Read more
A Bollinger Band consists of three lines: a simple moving average, an upper band, and a lower band. The assumption is that if the real price crosses over one of the bands, this can be seen as a signal to trade in or our of a given asset. For cryptocurrencies, breakout trades are more frequently … Read more