Looks like materialized views are coming to postgres :).

Whats good about spreadsheets? Spreadsheet applications offers a lot of usability. The concept of using a grid of variables that are easy to reference is a surprisingly powerful  concept. Many applications can be prototyped in spread sheet applications.[...]

Whats good about spreadsheets? Spreadsheet applications offers a lot of usability. The concept of using a grid of variables that are easy to reference is a surprisingly powerful  concept. Many applications can be prototyped in spread sheet applications.[...]

As I want to try some LP (looking into a coursera-course) I tried to setup GLPK on Windows. (BTW: doing this in Linux is trivial: apt-get or you friendly packet-manager). The goal was to get this simple skript: running. Well … Weiterlesen →

Tokenization of raw text is a standard pre-processing step for many NLP tasks. For English, tokenization usually involves punctuation splitting and separation of some affixes like possessives. Other languages require more extensive token pre-processing, w[...]

Over the last week or so, I’ve been looking at and playing around with the Streams API in Dart, which has been (in part at least) based on the Rx API, and it’s easy to see the parallels between the two sets of APIs and you can find most of the core Rx API[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News New feature was proposed to F# - Implement interface by expression (example is here) New F# Cheatsheet in PDF and HTML format using FSharp.Formatting tool was published. James announc[...]

From the window at the office I’ve seen a series of futuristic buildings erected, first the Gherkin, then the Shard and now the Walkie Talkie:   The last one being recently been re-dubbed the Walkie Scorchie as it produces a supercharged solar ‘death ra[...]

Recently, Cesar De Souza began moving his .NET machine learning library, Accord.NET, from Google Code to GitHub. The move is still in progress, but that motivated me to take a closer look at the library; given that it is built in C#, with an intended C# u[...]

We have written a lot of ruby code in the project I’m currently working in. There is a lot of code to help manage, build and schedule the program. We started out simple enough. Just one folder with helper scripts. After 2 years we have built up support fo[...]