Hacking

Books I found particularly helpful

March 12, 2009
Programming, Hacking, book, Java

Books I found particularly helpful # During the last few years I have quite a few books that one could easily file under the category “Hacking books”. Some of them were particularly interesting to me and have influenced the way I write code. The following list certainly is not complete at all - but it is a nice starting point. Effective C++ - I have comparably little experience with C++ but this book really helped understand some of the particularities. ...

Basic statistics of a set of values

March 9, 2009
Hacking, Statistics

Basic statistics of a set of values # Just in order to find that when searching for it yet another time: Problem: You have a set of values (for instance time it took to process various queries). You want a quick overview of how the values are distributed. Solution: Store the values in a file separated by newline, read the file with R and output summary statistics. R: times <- scan(“times”, list(0)) ...