{"id":405,"date":"2003-11-17T22:48:36","date_gmt":"2003-11-18T01:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=405"},"modified":"2003-11-17T22:48:36","modified_gmt":"2003-11-18T01:48:36","slug":"algorithms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Algorithms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>T<\/span>he most comprehensive resource for algorithms is still the DADS, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nist.gov\/dads\/\">NIST&#8217;s Dictionary  of Algorithms and Data Structures<\/a>. Completely recommended if you quickly need to look up a way to sort your data. DADS is also living proof why it&#8217;s ridiculous to patent software or algorithms: if you can&#8217;t find it in Knuth&#8217;s &#8216;Art of Programming&#8217; or in DADS, then you&#8217;re doing something wrong.\n<\/p>\n<p>Alfons showcases &#8216;breadth-first&#8217; in <a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~alfons\/weblog\/archives\/2003_11.html#001163\">his puzzle solving example<\/a>. And if you&#8217;re using your spellchecker or thesaurus right now, keep in mind that it&#8217;s probably powered using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nist.gov\/dads\/HTML\/directedAcyclicWordGraph.html\">DAWG<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most comprehensive resource for algorithms is still the DADS, NIST&#8217;s Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. Completely recommended if you quickly need to look up a way to sort your data. DADS is also living proof why it&#8217;s ridiculous &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=405\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}