Posts Tagged ‘algorithm’

Dataflow programming

In a previous post I wrote about how we could do some performance tuning by developing applications suited for parallel execution. Please pardon my ignorance – but I stumbled upon an article in Dr.Dobb’s – about “Dataflow programming” – which is actually what this is all about! If you would like to learn more on [...]

Parallel execution

In my previous post I briefly touched the subject of parallel execution in a spreadsheet-like desktop application. I’d like to go a bit deeper on that subject. Let’s say you have a spreadsheet. It consists of N rows and M columns. The columns 0…M – X are raw data – they most likely come from [...]

Bayesian filtering

Currently I’m thinking a lot about Bayesian filtering and new ways to apply this to my every day software. For those who aren’t that informed on the subject I would recommend reading A Plan for Spam by Paul Graham. Wikipedia has a few articles of interest as well. I’d recommend the ones on Bayes’ theorem [...]