Category: Blog

  • Working with MS SQL

    Intro So in the past I’ve looked into Postgres and/or (a bit of) MongoDB. Both nice alternatives to consider! But in some cases, one has to use other flavours of SQL, say in some corporate settings: Think for instance Oracle, or MS SQL Server, or if you’re Cloud inclined… Azure SQL 😉 One of the…

  • Diminishing returns of parallel processing

    Intro It’s been a while without new entries here, as usual because I was busy one way or another. In keeping with the Master’s studies, one of my excuses is the homework for the “high performance computing” course. Recently we worked on OpenMP, and then with MPI. Both are cool and those that read this…

  • Iterative function calls with Reduce

    Intro In many instances, the “Numerical Methods” will imply recurrent function calls. We demonstrated how to go about this using loops here. But I wasn’t satisfied with this  approach (I did mention, I prefer the apply() family of functions over for loops…). The apply() wasn’t fit for it, but while digging a bit deeper into…