Paul Gallagher

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Code, music, books, scale models, or mixing genres with a microcontroller 🇸🇬 9V1DI
Little Model Art Projectshttps://modelart.tardate.com/
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Paul Gallagher6h ago

This week's @cassidoo challenge: calculate how well a city grid is covered by fire stations. Using #Julia this time..

https://codingkata.tardate.com/julia/fire-station-coverage/

LCK#436 fireStationCoverage

Using Julia to calculate how well a city grid is covered by fire stations - a multi-source, breadth-first search problem; cassidoo's interview question of the week (2026-03-16).

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Paul Gallagher2d ago

I guess XLST is **an** option if you want to generate a Mandelbrot set(!!)

https://codingkata.tardate.com/formats/xslt/mandelbrot/

Paul Gallagher2d ago

All the recent moves to finally deprecate xslt browser support had me take a look at my (very old) notes on XSLT..

https://codingkata.tardate.com/formats/xslt/

LCK#431 XSLT

About Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT), with a simple example on macOS. Also a discussion of the current state of support and the pending removal of XSLT support from browsers.

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Paul Gallagher4d ago

Taking a quick look at the #julia language. Lots to love.. feels like a sweet meld of ruby/python and c (esp bit ops and structs).

https://codingkata.tardate.com/julia/about/

LCK#430 About Julia

An overview of the Julia programming language, its features, and ecosystem. Includes setting up and running on macOS.

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Paul GallagherMar 11

This week's @cassidoo challenge: min swaps to create alternating array. Using #clojure and it proved quite suited to this class of problem

https://codingkata.tardate.com/clojure/min-swaps-to-alternate/

LCK#427 minSwapsToAlternate

Using Clojure to find the minimum swaps required to create an alternating array; cassidoo's interview question of the week (2026-03-09).

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Paul GallagherMar 10

Taking a quick look at #miniKanren for logic programming (specifically the implementation embedded in Clojure)..

https://codingkata.tardate.com/minikanren/about/

LCK#426 About miniKanren

An overview of the miniKanren logic programming language, its features, and ecosystem. Includes setting up and running miniKanren embedded in Clojure on macOS.

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Paul GallagherMar 9

TIL SEA-LION is a family of open-source LLMs designed for Southeast Asia’s diverse languages, cultures, and contexts. Developed by AI Singapore.

https://codingkata.tardate.com/ai/sea-lion/

#ai #llm

LCK#424 SEA-LION

About AI Singapore and SEA-LION - a family of open-source, multilingual, multimodal language models designed for Southeast Asia’s diverse languages, cultures, and contexts. I evaluate one the leading models with some tests covering: multilingual legal/business contexts; cultural nuance & code-switching; and regional current affairs with local context.

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Paul GallagherMar 7
Midnight diner, but the guy did it!
Paul GallagherMar 6

This week's @cassidoo challenge: find the majority element in an array. I'm using #idris for this one..

https://codingkata.tardate.com/idris/majority-element/

LCK#423 majorityElement

Using Idris 2 to find the majority element in an array; cassidoo's interview question of the week (2026-03-02).

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Show threadPaul GallagherMar 3
@BoydStephenSmithJr thanks. Idris is certainly .. unusual!