Tag: math

  • Learning about Computing Errors

    Intro As part of the courses I am taking, I learned about something I guess I, as a “computer engineer”, should have come across earlier; but well, it would seem I didn’t. I’ll just show 3 examples anyone can easily find out there on the Internet, of things that happen with floating point operations. Obviously…

  • On Sampling

    In a past exercise (the one on a simplified visualization of Netflows), I had a very big file, and I wanted to extract a subset of the data to demo a visualization. The first part of the entry was about a way to divide a big file into smaller chunks, and extract samples with a…