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Merging the frequency rankings of boys' names and girls' names
Problem statement:
The html pages for each year which represents the top 1000 most common Girl and Boy names in the order of their frequency are ranked and provided. And they are ranked based on the ...
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Improving the performance of a webscraper
I have here a modified version of a web scraping code I wrote some weeks back. With some help from this forum, this modified version is faster (at 4secs per iteration) than the earlier version. ...
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Optimizing the speed of a web scraper
I have just written this code to scrape some data from a website. In its current state it works fine, however, going by my tests on the script, I discovered that with the amount of data I am ...
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Basic search engine
I want to improve efficiency of this search engine. It works in about 10 seconds for a search depth of 1, but 4 minutes at 2 etc.
I tried to give straightforward comments and variable names, any ...
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