brain of mat kelcey...

i just found fprof, the erlang profiler by randoming clicking around the erlang man page listtry123fprof:apply(Module, Function, Args).fprof:profile().fprof:analyse().for an interesting breakdown of a call...

how to decide what next to backup onto a dvd?when is brute force good enough? will a random walk get a good enough result faster?matpalm.com/burn.it...

i got asked in an interview once “how would find the median of a trillion numbers across a thousand machines?”the question has haunted me, until now.here’s my ruby and erlang implementation with a bit of running amazon ec2 thrown in...

given a set of pairwise distances how do you determine what points correspond to those distances?my latest experiment considers this problem in relation to jaccard distances, a resemblance measure similar to jaccard coefficients used in a previous experimentby using the...

openmp is a compiler library, available in gcc since v4.2, for giving hints to a compiler about where code can be parallelized.say we have some code12for(int i=0; i<HUGE_NUMBER; ++i) deadHardCalculation(i)we can make this run on multi threaded by simply...

on the weekend i did another experiment using shingling and the jaccard index to try to determine if two sets of data were “duplicates”it works quite well and includes a ruby and c++ version with low level bit operations.project page...