Hi, I'm Thong Nguyen. A developer, father and DIY enthusiast from Los Angeles. Welcome to my site—a collection of things I've learned in the form of code snippets, notes, and mini demo applications.
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An efficient search tree data structure commonly used for information retrieval like string matching and predictive text (e.g. autocomplete)
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Bloom filters are probabilistic data structures that solve membership problems, where false positives are possible, while false negatives are not
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A quick look at how Kruskal's algorithm can be used to generate a perfect maze
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Huffman coding is an algorithm for lossless compression of data, this post is a brief introduction to the algorithm with a nice demo
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A gentle introduction to Markov chains and how to use them to generate text
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An example of a minimum spanning tree using Prim's algorithm
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I built the kids an app version of their favorite game—Thinkfun's Solitaire Chess, using the Flutter framework
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An implementation of Conway's Game of Life
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An introduction to the minimax algorithm with tic-tac-toe
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I've been playing with JavaScript lately and needed a simple way to run some home grown tests directly in the browser, nothing fancy
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A collection of various pattern matching algorithms implemented for fun
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A collection of various sorting algorithms implemented for fun
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Notes and snippets of code for general and binary tree implementations
