Protocol Buffers (or protobufs for short), developed by Google, are a mechanism for defining messages in the proto format which allow for simple message definition and passing between processes and languages. From the homepage, Protocol Buffers are a language-neutral, platform-neutral extensible mechanism for serializing structured data. Put simply, protobufs are…

Algorithm Source Mirjalili, Seyedali, and Andrew Lewis. “The Whale Optimization Algorithm.” Advances in Engineering Software, vol. 95, 14 Jan. 2015, pp. 51–67., https://doi.org/10.1155/2817. Accessed 20 Sept. 2022. Although whales can live alone or in groups, they are most often observed in groups. Some species of whales, such as the killer whale, will…

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Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development process wherein the software requirements are first broken up into a series of unit tests and the software is then written to satisfy these unit tests. For example, if you were creating an API or a wrapper around an API that returns stock…

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In a previous post, I introduced and released an open-source project called DataTables which is a tabular data structure for C++ users. In the process of creating a rudimentary machine learning library, I found myself needing an efficient and effective way of storing tabular data in C++ much like how…

Some time ago I created a Discord bot that had one important task: to let users know when Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord would release. After adding this bot to my Discord server (a small, family/friend server) I’ve received many requests about adding more functionality to the bot: custom commands…

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