Its a pudgy pidgey
Got certified for gitlab ci/cd associate
> took the exam last week
> passed the exam
> got this badge
> A picture of homelander which is totally irrelvant to this post (!)
Note to future self : Amazon prime 8501 error
if you receive this error, sync the windows time server. 8501 indicates local time is wrong, this will cause the downloads to fail. Signing in and out doesnt work. Sync local time with windows time server.
27 years of revolving around the sun
the below article is just my random thoughts..
The more i spend living my life, more it feels like a simulation. Its mostly like playing a boring game with no interesting stuff coming up. I am not even depressed or suicidal, i am content with myself.
Sometimes i just feel like an NPC trying to do my part without questioning why I do what I do.
Stopped using my smart phone
For the past 3 weeks, i have been trying to quit smart phone. Today i locked it up in a box and decided never to use it again.
Got my CKA certification
its been 2 months i started preparing for CKA and took the exam on dec 8 2023, i am happy to announce that i passed CKA with 94 %
Solved ~ 11 Problems on own in a day ( 9 Medium, 2 Easy )
I'm incredibly happy with my progress while writing this post, when i started leetcode i wasn't able to solve 5 per day even with solutions from youtube. But today i was solve 11 problems from graphs on my own with no help. This is a small milestone in my path, so nothing much to write here.
Leetcode milestone update, Reached 300
I managed to solve 300 in ~ 2 months, at this point i am quite comfortable with lot of topics. I am planning to focus my efforts on only solving hard rated challenges to improve my understanding. While i understand that it will be a frustrating experience, i would like to go through it :-)
Basic Calculator 2
I always wondered about how to parse and execute complex numeric expressions, even though i did that my programming language agaram , i did that in a very different way ( using recursion ). So the problem statement here wants us to implement a program which parses the numeric expression. The expression consists of integers and operators ('+', '-', '*', '/') separated by some number of spaces and they guarantee that the expression would be valid.
LC trick to parse number from a list of characters
Lets say you have a string "leet23code" and you want to parse the characters as number 23, and you are not allowed to typecast after collecting the complete number "23" as string.
Its not really a trick but its just a nice way to build the number from string.
The obvious way to do this is by multiplying the position of digit in number and adding it, for example 23 can be represented as
(2 * 10 ^ 1 ) + (3 * 10 ^ 0)
we would need to keep track of the power of 10 to build the number
something like
power = 0
my_number = 0
for c in s:
if c.isnumeric():
my_number += int(c) + 10 * power
power += 1
This is nice and easy to understand, but there is even a better trick than this
def parse_number(self, s):
my_number = 0
for c in s:
if c.isnumeric():
my_number = my_number * 10 + int(c)
return my_number
This reduces the need for keeping track of power, because we knew power is incremented every time.
Swim in rising water - Dijsktra optimization
Problem statement:
You are given an n x n integer matrix grid where each value grid[i][j] represents the elevation at that point (i, j).
The rain starts to fall. At time t, the depth of the water everywhere is t.
You can swim from a square to another 4-directionally adjacent square
if and only if the elevation of both squares individually are at most t. You can swim infinite distances in zero time. Of course, you must stay within the boundaries of the grid during your swim.
Return the least time until you can reach the bottom right square (n - 1, n - 1) if you start at the top left square (0, 0).