December 2014 1HaskellADay Problems and Solutions

December 2014

• December 30th, 2014: Why can't we all just consensus along? for today's Haskell problem lpaste.net/117487 Pro-, con-, anti-, ... it's all sensus to me! lpaste.net/117490
• December 29th, 2014: Uh, wait! What? It's another day? We need another #haskell puzzler? Here ya go! Rosalind subs (not grinders) http://lpaste.net/117421 Rose petals falling ... and a soution to the #rosalind subs problem http://lpaste.net/117481
• December 24th, 2014: A||B||C == Merry Christmas for today's haskell problem http://lpaste.net/117213
• December 23rd, 2014: Convergence, but not the movie, is today's #haskell problem http://lpaste.net/117089 A rational solution was posted by @sheshanaag at http://lpaste.net/117232 
• December 22rd, 2014: Yesterday was about the zeroes, today's haskell problem is about the squares http://lpaste.net/116990
• December 21nd, 2014: In which we want to have the most zeros. Fancy that! http://lpaste.net/116932 (I guess we're not playing Dodgeball, then!)
• December 19th, 2014: A question for today's #haskell problem: how do YOUclear a Writer monad's log? http://lpaste.net/116849 A FlushableWriter solutionwas posted by @aditcr8 at http://lpaste.net/117115
• December 18th, 2014: Why can't you spell 'PROTEIN' with proteins?lpaste.net/116723 The solution for this problem is to Eat your proteins, young man! lpaste.net/116808
• December 17th, 2014: In which we find out that Mendel was into the Domme-scene for today's #haskell problem http://lpaste.net/116683 Whether hetero- or homo- a zygous is still a zygous... whatever that is. A solution to today's #haskell-zygous problem is posted at http://lpaste.net/116711
• December 16th, 2014: All actors should relate to today's #haskell problem; it's all about H-A-M-M! http://lpaste.net/116578 Go HAMM it up; #Rosalind will love you. And the solution is so HAMMy! http://lpaste.net/116585
• December 15th, 2014: Wanna Date? In which Jane Austen writes today's #haskell problem in her modern book titled: "The Hook Up" http://lpaste.net/116486 aka Pride and Prejudice. To get to our solution space, first we have to write an l-expr scanner/parser, of course. http://lpaste.net/116558
• December 12th, 2014: In this case 'GC' does NOT mean 'garbage collection' for today's #rosalind #haskell problem lpaste.net/116305. Yeah, not garbage-collected, but a solution, nonetheless http://lpaste.net/116335 
• December 11th, 2014: Why ... you ... wascally wabbit! Today's #haskell problem has a solution multiplying like Fibonaccis! http://lpaste.net/116216 I mean: rabbits. And speaking of rabid rabbits http://lpaste.net/116303, the solution is there. BLARGH! 
• December 10th, 2014: "Hello, Strand, you're looking lovely in that dress!" Complimenting DNA for today's #haskell problem. http://lpaste.net/116147 No, wait: 'comPLEmenting' a strand of DNA. Sorry, Miss Rosalind! A nicely complimented solution to the DNA-complement problem posted at http://lpaste.net/116151
• December 9th, 2014: I think this is my week with dear Rosalind: DNA-to-RNA transcriber for today's #haskell problem http://lpaste.net/116068 Another #TweetedHaskellSolution posted to http://lpaste.net/116071 for today's DNA-to-RNA transcriber
• December 8th, 2014: Rosalind, dear Rosalie, wherefore art thou givest me bioinformatic puzzles to solve, counting nucleotides? http://lpaste.net/115961 #haskell Nucleotide-counter, HO! A nucleotide-counting solution is posted at http://lpaste.net/116011 
• December 5th, 2014: This visit to Liar's-berg (or is it Truth-town?) we encounter only two women, so this should be 2x as easy to solve http://lpaste.net/114437 By coercion, we find that we are in Liarsberg, after all: http://lpaste.net/115769
• December 4th, 2014: Gadzooks! It's (past) that time of day again for the daily #haskell problem. Here: eat some glow worms! http://lpaste.net/114435
• December 3rd, 2014: Substantive citizens (with some substantive hints, for a change) for today's #haskell problem http://lpaste.net/114438
• December 2nd, 2014: There are some curious fractions to find fromprojecteuler.net for today's #haskell problem at http://lpaste.net/114208 Asolution to this curious fraction problem is posted at lpaste.net/114209
• December 1st, 2014: Today's Haskell problem is all about lambda-terms. It has NOTHING to do with for-loops and if-statements, ... NOT ONE BIT http://lpaste.net/115420 Solution: lpaste.net/115452 

10 programming challenge sites

Okay. Whoa!

I saw this off the twitter feed: Ten programming challenge sites

And, from it, I have a new love affair: rosalind.info, a problem-solving site for bioinformatics. I love it. What's not to love!

November 2014 1HaskellADay Problems and Solutions

November 2014

• November 3st, 2014: Let it snow, let it snow, let it ... lambda for today's #haskell problem http://lpaste.net/113682 ... and the answer is Snow Mittens for Snow Kittens! YAY! http://lpaste.net/113716
• November 4nd, 2014: At the First National Bank the MEN like to play chess with each other http://lpaste.net/113734 Today's #haskell problem. Men in banks like playing chess with each other http://lpaste.net/113775 come to find in the solution to today's #haskell logic puzzle
• November 5th, 2014: Doin' the spiral from projecteuler.net, problem 28, for today's #haskell puzzler lpaste.net/113798 Heh, I actually spiraled out to the solution for today's #haskell problem. http://lpaste.net/113111
• November 6th, 2014: From @BenVitale funwithnumb3rs site, we have a, b, and c ... and how simple can today's #haskell problem be? ;) http://lpaste.net/113846It's as easy as 1, 2, 3! is our solution http://lpaste.net/113849 to today's problem
• November 7th, 2014: Making sensical tweets for #ingress for today's #haskell problem http://lpaste.net/113886 A semantical romp through syntax (that is: the solution) is posted at http://lpaste.net/113908
• November 10th, 2014: As I embark on my morning commute, I share today's #haskell problem about ... the morning commute! http://lpaste.net/114038 To get to the solution ya gotta keep on truckin' http://lpaste.net/114068
• November 11th, 2014: Some Coin sums. In for a penny, in for a £ for today's #haskell problem http://lpaste.net/114089 Solution coded, but is it the correct one for counting coins? lpaste.net/113284 How did you do it? HA! I found the problem with my counting-coins solution! Redundancies! Updated solution at http://lpaste.net/113284
• November 12th, 2014: Squares, Cubes and Triangles masquerade as numbers in today's #haskell problem http://lpaste.net/114158 The square by a cube of a triangle is our digit-picking solution to today's math puzzle http://lpaste.net/114194
• November 13th, 2014: It's all about making the grade. I MEANT: 'THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH'! Yeah, THAT's what I meant. Not: 'making the grade.' http://lpaste.net/114233 Translation: Today's #haskell problem is about making the grade. I MEANT 'SEEKING KNOWLEDGE'! Yeah. That's what I meant. *blush* Isabella makes the grade in today's equational solution lpaste.net/114248 (rant by @geophf provided free of charge).
• November 14th, 2014: 0h, h1 there! for today's #haskell puzzle http://lpaste.net/114276
  
   
• Our bonus solution is coded here (http://lpaste.net/114304), and looks like this:

• ... and the solution (for this puzzle, anyway, and the schema for refinement) http://lpaste.net/114321

• November 17th, 2014: The in-laws bump into Amy and her baby in the perambulator on her daily stroll for today's #haskell problem http://lpaste.net/114430 For today's solution we find a really roundabout way to say 'brother-in-law' http://lpaste.net/114460 And the bonus solution(http://lpaste.net/114461) we graph it with Neo4J:

• November 18th, 2014: Would you like some chips with that Fish? The #haskell puzzler for today is a 'SOLE' word-square http://lpaste.net/114433 Sole Open Ends Lead! A newspaper-escque headline-y-like solution to today's Haskell puzzler http://lpaste.net/114522
• November 19th, 2014: Next Mensa puzzler for today's #haskell problem. Who gotfirst place in the science fair? http://lpaste.net/114559 Woman Power! A solution to today's Haskell puzzler http://lpaste.net/114583
• November 20th, 2014: "Trick or treat!" But how many bags of candy did the new cashier, to be named later, sell? Solve this lpaste.net/114620 to let her know. The solution is posted here (http://lpaste.net/114635) and graphed out ... for 'funzies.'

• November 21st, 2014: Her Majesty, Queen Victoria (Vicky or Maj to her buds) (not really), has a #haskell poem-puzzler for you: http://lpaste.net/114436 (Standard disclaimer: we make no representation of reigning monarchs, living or dead, implied or otherwise. Besides... the Queen has no buds.) So, that brings to mind two thoughts, or pensées: 

1. you see how I used the royal-'we' there? ;)
2. 2) How sad to be Queen, and have no buds :(

(@1HaskellADay In which it is learned it is a sadness to be Queen, to have no buds withal. :( *sniffle*) The 'clever' solution (http://lpaste.net/114733) comes even with its own 'TA-DAH!' ... gratis. You're welcome.

• November 24th, 2014: Circular primes, from projecteuler.net, is today's #haskell puzzler: http://lpaste.net/114816. A solution to the circular primes problem is posted at http://lpaste.net/114817 
• November 25th, 2014: Have a well-ordered (re)presentation of today's #haskell problem http://lpaste.net/114999  Suffice to say: today's 'date' is 'fig.' geddit? ;) A solution is a (sorta) logical calendar http://lpaste.net/115036 
• November 26th, 2014: Got a question for ya! for today's Haskell problemlpaste.net/115096 1-9 in so many ways http://lpaste.net/115129
• November 27th, 2014: Happy Thanksgiving to all you Haskell aficionados out there! Today's #haskell puzzle set involves da turkeyzzzz! http://lpaste.net/115184 That there is a lot of turkey! http://lpaste.net/115272
• November 28th, 2014: Black Friday. OKAY, FOLKS! TODAY, AND _ONLY_ TODAY, EVERYTHING IS ON SAAAAAAAALLLLEEEE! http://lpaste.net/115229 Today's Black Friday #haskell problem. THESE PRICES ARE ...INSAAAAANNNNEEE! http://lpaste.net/115294 A solution to today's Black Friday logic puzzle.

October 2014 1HaskellADay Problems and Solutions

October, 2014

• October 1st, 2014, Wednesday: Pathways into Darkness http://lpaste.net/111444 Because Daerkness is the new Pink. Today's #haskell problem. ...AAAAAND we went there: Dark, Darkest, Darko! http://lpaste.net/111919 A solution to the #haskell grid-pathing problem using Data.Graph. FUN!
• October 2nd, 2014, Thursday: Tweet, tweet! Summer Factorial! http://lpaste.net/111947 a #haskell 'sum'mer exercise for the Fall. From "Power set, HO!" to "Power Sets? NO!" http://lpaste.net/111982 A solution to today's longest factors-sum #haskell problem.
• October 3rd, 2014, Friday: In which I get WHACKED by the Missus for today's #haskell problem http://lpaste.net/112005 (I've printed out the word-ladders in long form so you can give them to your Missus, thus to avoid enWHACKification! http://lpaste.net/112009) GROSS ('Get Rid Of Stupid wordS') club and goal-directed searches using Levenstein distances give us today's solution http://lpaste.net/112064
• BONUS! puzzles for today: YOU get RICK ROLLED! http://lpaste.net/112006 Oh, yeah! I went there!

• You can't kill the metal, unless you're Rick Rolled; solution to #haskell bonus problem at http://lpaste.net/112127

• October 4th, 2014: Dear Dad, SEND + MORE = MONEY http://lpaste.net/112160 Today's #haskell problem. Problem SOLVED! (naively) ... for a small processing fee, ... ;) http://lpaste.net/112175
• October 7th, 2014: An American Family http://lpaste.net/112220 Today's #haskell problem gives us the #Twilight lexicon... in a 'VERY' 'BRIEF' synopsis. #ontology 8 of 21 questions are answered against the #Twilight (extended) family tree http://lpaste.net/112307  My enthusiasm overcame my reasonableness.
• BONUS #haskell problem for today! http://lpaste.net/112229 Renesmee's (doting) Aunts because EVERYONE dotes on Renesmee. By law. Do-it-to-it! "And Bella Swan lived Happily Ever After" ... and that's the whole point of the 4-book #twilight series. http://lpaste.net/112339 #ontology
• October 8th, 2014: "A more clever approach than brute force is desirable" for today's #haskell problem http://lpaste.net/112310 (Me? Brute Force, All the WAY!) (Not so) Brutish pathing through triangular sums ... Commited Choice FTW! http://lpaste.net/112355 A solution to today's #haskell problem.
• October 9th, 2014: Sugar and spice and everything nice (http://lpaste.net/111904): that's what today's #haskell problem from a logic puzzle from 1957 is made of. A long path to a solution to this day's engagement announcements #haskell problem, involving monoidal Frege logic. http://lpaste.net/112446
• October 10th, 2014: "Oh, it's 4:42. No, it isn't, ... zzzz" Those kinds of conversations come up all the time in today's #haskell problem http://lpaste.net/112404 And the poor little matchstick boy went back to sleep in his warm, comfy bed, hot chocolate by his bedside http://lpaste.net/112461 a solution
• BONUS! Okay, so you're saying liars ALWAYS lie and TruthTellers ALWAYS tell the truth. http://lpaste.net/112405 Wait ... even in Vegas? #Bonus In which we may learn about your sense of humo(u)r http://lpaste.net/112508 a solution using logic, meta-logic, and coercive logic. #ontology 
• October 13th, 2014: In which we discover Columbus is Big in Japan ... no, wait: that's #ekmett. http://lpaste.net/112511 Today's #haskell problem. We solve this problem by WAY overusing the State Monad! http://lpaste.net/112537 ... Letter to a Young Haskell Enthusiast should have added: "Don't overused the State Monad!" I hear and obey the advice of ekmett!

• What time is it? π-time? No. (But you were close ...) It's BONUS #haskell problem time! http://lpaste.net/112515 Go discover the New World! And, we discover, solving this bonus problem, that the New World was India (and not the ink), no matter what anyone else says, eh, Columbus? http://lpaste.net/112533
• October 14th, 2014: We look at reciprocally-cycled decimal values of fractions in today's #haskell problem http://lpaste.net/112565 In which we discover that @geophf must read the problem statement carefully. A solution to today's #haskell problem http://lpaste.net/112592
• October 15th, 2014: Today's #haskell problem: grid placement http://lpaste.net/112606. Or as Neo says: "Whoa."

• Bam! Interlevening (???) FTW! http://lpaste.net/112647 A solution to today's #haskell problem.

• October 16th, 2014: An ... 'intelligence' test http://lpaste.net/112694 for today's #haskell problem. Intelligence test: answered. http://lpaste.net/112759 I had to melt my brain to answer it, however, so that happened.
• October 17th, 2014: Friedman day was yesterday, http://lpaste.net/112707 but it's today's #haskell problem. Bonus: Friedman proofs, no less! http://lpaste.net/112709 ... using Frege's logic ... but only if you want to ... The solution (including the bonus solution) for the Friedman-day problem posted at http://lpaste.net/112735  WITH FOR-LOOPS!
• October 20th, 2014: O! Little Town of Milford! http://lpaste.net/112921 has a butcher, baker, and candlestick maker, but who is who? Today's #haskell problem. Okay, gag me with the sequence operator! BLEH! (I really should have gone relational calculus here! :/) A solution at http://lpaste.net/112954
• October 21st, 2014: Se7en Little numbers ... okay, well, four of them, anyway, for today's #haskell problem http://lpaste.net/112972 Quantum nodes of scintillating thought http://lpaste.net/112996  A solution to today's #Haskell problem.

• October 22nd, 2014: Word Numb3rs is today's #haskell puzzle (thanks to @BenVitale) 'AND' in your language of choice as you so choose. http://lpaste.net/113018 Hinglish-Vinglish is our response to this exercise.  http://lpaste.net/113045 "Fruitful." Yeah. Well, at least we got Data.Numeral.English http://lpaste.net/113037 out of it. SWEET!
• October 23rd, 2014: Today's #haskell problem comes from http://projecteuler.net and is about ... well: Euler, himself! http://lpaste.net/113069 Well, if you wanted a list of writer monads, you could've just asked for a list of writer monads http://lpaste.net/113084 
• October 24th, 2014: Even odds is our #haskell problem today, thanks to @BenVitale http://lpaste.net/113141 A solution (actually two defined solutions) to @BenVitale even odds problem posted for today's #haskell problem http://lpaste.net/113167

I dub this coming week 'Kakuro week' for the theme of #haskell 

problems to solve (puzzle rendered using #haskell)

• October 27th, 2014: #kakuro-week: the empty slate is our step one for our #haskell problem(s) to solve today http://lpaste.net/113255

• Then we have the...'filled'-slate as a solution to 'today's #haskell problems for #kakuro-week http://lpaste.net/113314 
  
• October 28th, 2014: «On y va!» declaims Sgt. Johnson as he charges headlong into solving today's #haskell problem http://lpaste.net/113316 
  
• And that's how a 'partial' cookie crumbles. Partially. A partial solution to yesterday's #haskell #kakuro problem http://lpaste.net/113397
• October 29th, 2014: A magnificent clue for today's #haskell problem in this #kakuro-puzzle-themed week http://lpaste.net/113399
• October 30th, 2014: So, what does the 'Su' mean? http://lpaste.net/113451 Today's #haskell puzzler is a sudoku-solver. That you wrote. DoIt-ToIt!
• October 31st, 2014: Merry Christmas! No. Heurieusement anniversaire! Nope. TRICK OR TREAT! Ya, that's the stuff! http://lpaste.net/113524 Today's #haskell problem

Looking at the Graph Database Neo4j

... and the code is at lpaste.net/113540

September 2014 1HaskellADay problems and solutions

September, 2014

• September 1st, 2014: They tried to kill the Metal...I don't know where I'm going with that. But rock-n-roll with today's #haskell exercise http://lpaste.net/110331
• September 2nd, 2014: Good morning! Triangle Sums is our #haskell problem for today: http://lpaste.net/110404 No triangles were harmed in the solution of their sum (nor in the summation of their solution) http://lpaste.net/110432

• September 3rd, 2014: Pay It Forward. What? You didn't think I'd just say: today's #haskell problem is hard and leave it at that, did you? http://lpaste.net/110444 Paid. Or: a constructivist approach reduces the generated sets from 200M+ down to 8 possible solutions http://lpaste.net/110684 That's doable. ... and here is the 'Mr. Clean' version of the solution: fast, and neat. Groovy! http://lpaste.net/110685
• September 4th, 2014: Today's #haskell problem: Abacus words http://lpaste.net/110494 because MRFE says "I don't like your math problems; I want more word problems"
• September 5th, 2014: These 'edgy' relationships these days!  Remember when today's #haskell problem didn't involve graph theory? http://lpaste.net/110543 Data.Graph FTW! http://lpaste.net/110571 A solution to today's 4sum #haskell problem, and it didn't require generating 1625702400 solutions!
• September 8th, 2014: We have puzzles 1 and 5 from the "Montley Stew" problem set for today's #haskell problem http://lpaste.net/110699 The solution-style to Montley Stew isswimming in list-compression stew http://lpaste.net/110750
• September 9th, 2014: King Tut! http://lpaste.net/110789 Our #haskell problem for today is NOT a Pyramid Scheme. Maybe.
• September 10th, 2014: 'Sed' is 'but(t)' just another word ... in "'laddin" http://lpaste.net/110833 Today's #haskell problem is mix-n-match words. "But(t) I sed ..." ARG! Enough with the 3rd-grade humor! On with the solution to the mix-n-match words! http://lpaste.net/110859
• September 11th, 2014: A-plus for you when you solve today's #haskell exercise http://lpaste.net/110862 But an F- (NOT an F# ... geddit?) for /usr/share/dict/words :/ A solution to today's injectInto #haskell problem http://lpaste.net/110891
• September 12th, 2014: Today's #Haskell problem comes from She. She who commands you solve it before coding it. http://lpaste.net/110925 So, you know: there it is. Okay, 'thurt' is a word in WHICH Universe? A solution to today's #haskell 'ditto' problem http://lpaste.net/110955
• September 15th, 2014: "The name of the game is Connect Four!" and today's #haskell problem http://lpaste.net/111065 as suggested by a tweet from @DrEugeniaCheng. I played Connect 4 against myself and lost! :/ A semi-solution to today's #haskell problem at http://lpaste.net/111105

• September 16th, 2014: There's more than one way to slice and dice a matrix for today's #haskell problem http://lpaste.net/111109 (follow-up to yesterday's Connect4) A Hack-n-slash solution to today's diagonal view of matrices. http://lpaste.net/111130 Thebonus solution is provided back at the Connect Four answer to make that game complete: http://lpaste.net/111105
• September 17th, 2014: Do you Yahoo!? Today's #haskell problem: connecting to Yahoo!'s financial webservice http://lpaste.net/111071 I like my java GREEN! http://lpaste.net/111238 (java means 'coffee') A solution to stock webservice #haskell problem.

• September 18th, 2014: Star (Tuna?) Fish? http://lpaste.net/111216 A radial word-finding/matching game is today's #haskell puzzle. Wait. Quantum...WHAT? http://lpaste.net/111259 A solution to today's #haskell problem using quantum superpositions to solve it. I'm not joking. STAR POWER! http://lpaste.net/edit/111259 A solution for pretty-printing the star-puzzle
• September 19th, 2014: Continued fractions and dual inversionals are today's #haskell problem http://lpaste.net/111067 It even comes with (thoughts about) flowers. #Ult Today's problem was inspired by a comment, then the main article, from @aperiodicalhttp://aperiodical.com/2013/11/from-the-mailbag-dual-inversal-numbers/#comment-611141 That was some LOOOOOOOONG Division! http://lpaste.net/111314 A solution to today's #haskell problem.
• September 22nd, 2014: Oh, noes! The 'M'-word! http://lpaste.net/111419 for today's #haskell exercise. Project Euler, problem 11: 'M' is for 'Monoid' http://lpaste.net/111435 A solution to today's #haskell problem.
• September 23rd, 2014: "Oh, the snark bites, with his teeth, dear." MACD Knife ... geddit? http://lpaste.net/111468 Today's #haskell problem is a technical indicator.
• September 24th, 2014: Jones, Smith, and Brown work at the Bank... but not Mr. Banks.A logic puzzle from 1957 for today's #haskell puzzle http://lpaste.net/111461. A pair of PhDs (http://lpaste.net/111580) helped to solve today's #haskell problem. Neatly, too, I might add.
• September 25th, 2014: Corned-beef hashi? http://lpaste.net/111452 No, that's not right, and now I'm hungry! :( Shoot! Well, anyway: today's #haskell problem.
• September 26th, 2014: HA! I TOLD you we'd be getting to cipher-text! http://lpaste.net/111459 From the 1700's, still: it IS cipher text for today's #haskell problem. Ooh! The Plot Thickens (like pea soup)! http://lpaste.net/111679 "ALLMENHAVING" and "be mis T r U st ed " is a solution to today's problem.
• September 29th, 2014: Big (Crypto) Generator! http://lpaste.net/111795 Today's #haskell problem is a follow-on to Friday's. Human Error ... WHAT human error?http://lpaste.net/111829 A solution to today's make-your-own-cypto-table #haskell problem
• September 30th, 2014: "I wanna be a blue-collar man!" Yes, but who, and which occupation? http://lpaste.net/111755 Today's #haskell problem addresses this. Plumber, ... or painter? IDK! http://lpaste.net/111876 TWO-solutions to today's #haskell problem (one of them MAY be correct... :/ )