Bioinformatics

The PNAS article linked here found subjects could improve IQ with training. I've written a simple flash version of their protocol over a couple long evenings in haxe /flash. The article methods list 2 stimuli, a moving box, and spoken letters. The test subject is to respond (click in my case) when the box position or the spoken letter is the same as it was 2 time steps ago. Where 2 is increased as the subject gets better. I didn't do sound, I just show a big letter. Clearly, the logical thing to do is use it for a couple weeks and then implement the sound when I'm smarter. (I've never really used swfmill , but I think that'd be useful here...) The article is ambiguous about when the letter is to sound, I've made both the letter and the box appear at the same time. The default, as in the article is to have 3 seconds between events, and to show the box for 0.5 seconds. I also add some indication of whether the answer was correct (green +) or not (red -). That act

EDIT(2): fix markup for <char *> casts ... fix malloc (see comments. thanks Bao). NOTE: using a kwarg for limit slows things down. setting that to a required arg and using calloc for m2 speed things up to nearly as fast as the pylevenshtein. Well, it seems to be popular to code up the levenshtein . I actually have a use for this and wanted to practice some Cython , so I've written a version. I used bearophile's recipe , wikibooks , this (from k4st on reddit) and this for reference. It follows bearophile's code closely, using only O(m) space instead of O(mn). cdef extern from "stdlib.h": ctypedef unsigned int size_t size_t strlen(char *s) void *malloc(size_t size) void free(void *ptr) int strcmp(char *a, char *b) cdef inline size_t imin(int a, int b, int c): if a < b: if c < a: return c return a if c < b: return c return b cpdef int levenshtein(char *a, char *b, int limit=100):