Farkle is an old dice game popular at parties and in bars. It’s a folk game, so the exact rules and scoring vary from place to place. I was introduced to the game on Facebook, where there is an online flash version. Basically, the game is played in rounds. During each [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Farkle Odds
Posted in Fun, tagged linkedin on August 30, 2009 | 15 Comments »
ASP.Net: Validating a TextBox with a Dollar Sign
Posted in ASP.Net, Programming, tagged linkedin on August 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Currency Parsing, Regular Expressions
ASP.Net 2.0 has some very powerful client-side web page validation features, including classes that emit javascript validation code to the user’s web browser. The CompareValidator, allows one to test whether the value entered into a text box is convertible to a given data type. All one has to do add the CompareValidator [...]
Pre-scoring Candidates for String Matching
Posted in Programming, tagged linkedin on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Keywords: Levenshtein, String Matching, Optimization
Introduction
In many service oriented businesses, the problem comes up to search your customers for names which are published on a government watchlist. The input names on either list may contain typographical errors, so a fault insensitive matching algorithm must be run on each name pair. A model algorithm to [...]
String Matching and Zaxxon
Posted in Programming, tagged linkedin on August 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Keywords: Levenshtein, Wagner-Fischer, Zaxxon
It comes frequently in the service sector to check your customer names against some list provided by regulatory agencies, and the checking has to be tolerant against slightly mistyped names. So for example if “Hugo Chavez” is on the list, and “Huge Shavez” is in your list of customers, you might [...]
