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Everyday I’m Shuffling.
I read an article the other day explaining that Spotify changed it shuffling algorithm due to a large amount of user feedback suggesting it was repeating songs by the same artist frequently or playing the same song twice. A company like Spotify has a huge amount of engineering talent, so I was confused as to…
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Stick or Twist – the Monty Hall Problem
In Season 4 Episode 9 of the comedy show Brooklyn 99, two characters fall out over a debate around a probability problem. The problem is known as the “Monty Hall problem” due to the fact it was made famous on a game show named “Lets Make a Deal”. Initially I was a little confused into…
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Convert a Number to Roman Numerals
I was on the LeetCode website earlier today, more often than not the problems on this site scare the living hell out of me, however one caught my eye and I naively thought “that can’t be that hard can it?”, you’d think by now I’d know better than that, but the problem felt solvable and…