Boolean Mask Filter
Write a function that filters a list based on a boolean mask and returns the selected elements.
Map, Filter, Reduce
Implement three functions using map, filter, and reduce to manipulate a list of integers.
Filter by Age
Filter a list of person dictionaries by age and return their names.
Logging Filter
Given a list of log entries, return those matching a given severity level and containing a keyword.
Remove Duplicates from String
Given a string, return a new string with each character that repeats consecutively reduced to a single occurrence.
Extract digits from string
Write a function that extracts all digit characters from a given string, preserving their original order.
Boolean Mask Filter
Write a function that filters a list using a boolean mask and returns the matching elements as a list.
Values that appear once
Return a list of numbers that appear exactly once in the input list, in original order.
Delete Old Records
Filter a list of records by removing those with a date older than a given cutoff date.
Generator Pipeline
Implement a generator function that yields only even numbers from an input list, squared.
Leap Years in Range
Write a function that returns a list of all leap years between two given years, inclusive.
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