https://davidhampgonsalves.com/tags/nodejs/Recent content in nodejs on David Hamp-GonsalvesHugo -- gohugo.ioen-USTue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://davidhampgonsalves.com/javascript-damerau-levenshtein-algorithim/Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://davidhampgonsalves.com/javascript-damerau-levenshtein-algorithim/The Damerau Levenshtein algorithim calculates a distance between two words in the same way that basic Levenshtein does but adds transpositions to the set of operations that it uses to calculate distance. This makes it much more reliable at finding similiar or alternate spellings of words. I was doing some nodejs work lately and needed such a function to clean up one of my datasets and so I ported this version from C# to Javascript.https://davidhampgonsalves.com/install-node.js-/-npm-on-fedora-core-17/Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://davidhampgonsalves.com/install-node.js-/-npm-on-fedora-core-17/This is just a short and sweet set of commands to install Nodejs and NPM on Fedora 17. Versions Fedora Core 17 node.js 0.8.9 The Guts(go bash go!) sudo yum install openssl-devel.i686 gcc gcc-c++ sudo ./configure sudo make -j2 sudo make install su cd /tmp git clone https\://github.com/isaacs/npm.git cd npm make install exit Most of this was based on an older post I found here.https://davidhampgonsalves.com/iterative-javascript-quickselect/Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://davidhampgonsalves.com/iterative-javascript-quickselect/A couple weeks ago I entered my first AI related contest, hosted by scribd. The contest was great for beginners since it involved a very simple world and control scheme. At some point in by bot creation process I needed to determine the n-th highest number in an Array. While for such a simple project I probably should have just thrown some loops together and moved on, but since the project was just I started researching the problem and Hoare’s Selection Algorithm.