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Ways to decompress

March 21st, 2023

It is increasingly important to learn how to decompress in those rock hard times we live in... in fact, it's also very important to learn how to compress. That's why I began to write an article about classic lossless compression algorithms: Run-Length Encoding (easy) and Huffman Encoding (not easy.) The article could use a few illustrations and probably a few more routines here and there, but what's there is functionnal. Why does it take some much time to do stuff? Damn you, stuff!

Oh wow

March 16th, 2023

I just added a new article titled "Everything in its right place" which covers binary search and hash tables, two neat ways of retrieving data entries in large arrays. It's a pretty random idea for an article, sure, but the other candidate was "Your hamster, you, and the education board of Canada, a transversal approach to boiling eggs" which was equally pretty random, especially for a QuickBASIC-oriented web page.