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The goal of spline approximation has already been explained in the previous article „Spline Approximation (Introduction)„. This article will cover the mathematics behind this approximation and develop an approach. If you do not care about the mathematics, just skip this article and read the Spline Approximation (Cookbook)“, that will come soon. Spline Interpolation We have […]
We sometimes encounter a situation where a number of points with coordinates are given and we want to find a function such that for all of these points we have (interpolation) or (approximation). Most often we say that we want on average to be as small as possible and for whatever reasons usually the quadratic […]
Often we use some kind of „clustered“ environment to run our software. This promises higher performance and better availability. And the frameworks seem to suggest that it is just a matter of starting it twice and it will magically work correctly. There is nothing wrong with investing some thoughts on this issue. It can actually […]
When images are scanned multiple times, maybe there is a way to construct an image that is better than any of the scans from them. In this case it is assumed, that one scan has a higher resolution, but another scan got the colors better. It has already been found out, which two scans belong […]
This article is highly inspired by the blog post We need tool support for keyset pagination. Please consider reading the original first and then my interpretation and additional thoughts about this idea. We have a typical database base backed web application. It can be a rich client. It can be a NoSQL database. Whatever, but […]
We start recognizing that Serialization is not such a good idea. It is cool and can really work on a wide range of objects, even including complex and cyclic reference graphs. And it was essential for some older Java frameworks like EJB and RMI, which allowed remote access to Java objects and classes. But it […]
Most data that we deal with are strings or numbers or booleans and combinations of these into classes and collections. Dates can be expressed as string or number, but have enough specific logic to be seen as a fourth group of data. All these have interesting aspects, some of which have been discussed in this […]
In Software we often deal with ranges of dates and times. Let us look at it from the perspective of an end user. When we say something like „from 2020-03-07 to 2019-03-10“ we mean the set of all timestamps such that or more accurately: Important is, that we mean to include […]
UUIDs have proven useful in many circumstances. We have basically two main variants: The UUID is calculated as a combination of the Ethernet-MAC-address, the timestamp and a counter. The UUID is calculated using a good random number generator While variant 1 provides for a good uniqueness, there are some issues with it. Today we use […]
There is now also an implementation of Flashsort in Scala. In order to solve the requirement of sorting part of an array that is needed as part of flashsort, an heapsort implementation in Scala that can be constrained to a part of an array has been included as well. Heapsort was chosen, because it can […]