Vitosh    Sliding tile puzzle is something that is actually easy, if you are a fan of the Rubic Cube. And if you want to solve it with IDA (iterative Deepening A ) and with Manhattan heuristic, this is the correct place. The&Read more :

Vitosh    TL;DR: We solve the classic frog leap puzzle with Depth-First Search (DFS) by generating next boards around teh blank and trying jumps before steps. This trick finds the minimal soluton in exactly N 2 2N moves. The classic frog puzzle looks like&Read more :

Vitosh    This is what we do with in the YouTube video below: take a tiny CSV and explore it with plain words we train a strong model, using the XGBoost python library (eXtreme Gradient Boosting) pick a practical decision treshold and&Read more :

Vitosh    When you plot two variables, you see data dots scattered across the plane. Their overall tilt and shape tell you how the variables move together. Correlation turns that visual impression into a single number you can report and compare. What&Read more :

Vitosh    When working with data, you will often move between SQL databases and Pandas DataFrames. SQL is excellent for storing and retrieving data, while Pandas is ideal for analysis inside Python. In this article, we show how both can be used&Read more :

Vitosh    After building a minimal FastAPI SQLite CRUD application in Docker, I wanted to show how Excel can connect directly to it. With a few lines of VBA, we can turn Excel into a client that talks to the API.&Read more :

Vitosh    If you are just starting with Docker and want a practical project, here is a fun one: let’s build a tiny CRUD app in Python, run it inside a Docker container, and then connect to it from Excel with VBA.&Read more :

Vitosh    SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) might sound intimidating (or funny) but it is actually a straightforward way for systems to exchange structured messages using XML. In this article, I am introducing SOAP through YouTube video, where it is explored through&Read more :

Vitosh    After the article for introduction to Graphs in Python, I have decided to put the graph theory into practice and start looking for the shortest points between points in a city. Parts of the code are inspired from the book&Read more :

Vitosh    Lately, I am reading the book Optimization Algorithms by Alaa Khamis and the chapter 3 Blind Search Algorithms, has caught my attention. The chapter starts with explaining what graphs are how these are displayed in python and I have&Read more :