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Assessing Abstractions

Back to OCaml! Catching up with StackOverflow's OCaml questions , I found an interesting one about private type abbreviations in module si...

02 Jul 2012

Matías Giovannini

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Managing and Analyzing Big-Data in Genomics

Abstract Biology is an increasingly computational discipline. Rapid advances in experimental techniques, especially DNA sequencing, are generating data at exponentially increasing rates. Aside from...

29 Jun 2012

Ashish Agarwal

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2D Interpolation, Part 5: Final Optimizations

The code has now the proper shape to carry out optimizations to their logical consequences, to the point that I question the wisdom in some...

29 Jun 2012

Matías Giovannini

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2D Interpolation, Part 4: ARGB Interpolation

After linearizing all array accesses , interpolating ARGB values is easy from the algorithmic side of things; so easy things first. I'll han...

28 Jun 2012

Matías Giovannini

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2D Interpolation, Part 3: Linear Array Accesses

Last time I've hoisted all accesses to the source array. This opens the door to being able to process linear arrays representing a matrix i...

27 Jun 2012

Matías Giovannini

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2D Interpolation, Part 2: Minimizing Array Accesses

Last time I massaged the interpolator to avoid computing every time the linear transformation from destination space to source space, using...

26 Jun 2012

Matías Giovannini

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2D Interpolation, Part 1: The Digital Differential Analyzer

To my Planet OCaml readers, I apologize for veering into Java. I've been playing with Processing of lately, because it's far easier to proto...

25 Jun 2012

Matías Giovannini

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2D Interpolation, Part 0: The Groundwork

(First of a series) My process for going from a textbook implementation of an algorithm to an efficient production-grade version of it is t...

22 Jun 2012

Matías Giovannini

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Quick histograms

Having come back to actively working on OCI*ML recently, it’s time I cracked on with some more features (I have been promising LOBs for a long time, sorry to anyone who’s still waiting)…

15 Jun 2012

Gaius Hammond

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xavierbot lives!

Or at least he now has his own git repository.

13 Jun 2012

Richard Jones

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