Last night I was faced with a daunting task of making a meta-heuristic process a non-trivial amount of data in no more than a tenth of the time it was taking now. Just to help you embrace the herculean task this was: My goal was to make the algorithm’s runtime lower than 1.5 seconds for [...]

Image via Wikipedia Yesterday another WebCamp took place in Ljubljana and it was the best *camp event I’ve ever been to. Congrats to all involved in making it happen, you guys rawk. For some strange reason though I seem to have done almost nothing but hang out in the hall and only caught little bits [...]

This is a howto that might come in handy to some people, but mostly I just want to document how I poked around some very angry django dragons and created something marvelous. There are also people on twitter who were wondering what the fuck I was doing. So let’s start by describing the problem. We [...]

Image via Wikipedia Ah, finally, we can breathe again! The last couple of weeks … was it two, was it three? Can’t really tell, feels like I’ve left the office just yesterday while at the same time seeming like it’s been years since I last set foot in the office to do any real work. [...]

This whole week I’ve been doing a lot of maths studying. Things like parametric curves, LaGrange theorems and funky functional sequences. Naturally I’ve developed a bit of a love for pretty mathematical objects, so I wanted to share some with you. 1. Our first contestant is the cardioid. She’s a bit chubby on the sides [...]