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Design an algorithm to predict words based on a skeleton from a given dictionary
The model I'm building first selects a secret word at random from a list. The model which uses an API then returns a row of underscores (space separated)—one for each letter in the secret word—and ...
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Optimising function to strip honorifics from names
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I have a list of around ~1000 honorifics, see below for a sample.
Given an input string of a name, for example ...
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Lingo (word-game) guessing strategy
My friend and I are kind of noobs in Python and are looking for ways to improve. We thought it would be cool if we could get some feedback on the following code. It is for a game named "Lingo&...
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First non-repeating Character, with a single loop in Python
I recently tried to solve the first non-repeating character problem. Please tell me if my solution is valid. I'm aiming for O(n) with a single loop.
My thinking is, it would be easy to tell you what ...
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Finding longest word in a sentence
A problem from Coderbyte. Find the longest word in a sentence after removing the punctuations and if two or more words are of same length return the first word
Below is my solution:
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Number of occurrences of strings in array
This is a Hackerrank problem (https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/sparse-arrays/problem).
We're given an array of strings and an array of queries, and have to return an array of the number of ...
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Strong Password Checker (Python)
Problem
Write a program to return True, if a string is a strong password.
A password is considered strong if below conditions are all met:
It should have at least ...
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Capitalize the First Letter of Words in a String (JavaScript, Python)
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Write a function that accepts a string, capitalizes the first letter of each word in the string, and returns the capitalized string.
Examples
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Anagram (Python, JavaScript)
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Write a function to check whether two given strings are anagram of each other or not. An anagram of a string is a string that contains same characters ([A-Za-z0-9]) and the order of ...
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LeetCode 65: Valid Number (Python)
Problem
Validate if a given string can be interpreted as a decimal or scientific number.
Some examples:
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Palindrome and Reverse a String Problems (JavaScript, Python)
Problem 1
Given a string, the task is to reverse the string and return a reversed string.
Problem 2
Given a string, return true if the string is a palindrome or false if it is not.
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Split a string into valid words
I am trying to solve this LeetCode question:
Given a non-empty string s and a dictionary wordDict containing a list
of non-empty words, add spaces in s to construct a sentence where each
word is ...
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`set_includes` (string subsequence-containment) in Python 2
I've implemented C++'s std::includes algorithm in Python, so that I can use it to efficiently implement a Scrabble "can I make this word" function:
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