Antecons developer diary part 1

This post is about Antecons, a product recommendation engine, now part of Conversio. Antecons is no longer commercially available, but I have kept my developer diary on my website with permission. It has been a year since the first announcement of Antecons. What has happened since then? Absolutely nothing. The reason for this seems to… Continue reading Antecons developer diary part 1

Complexity

I learned about complexity studying computer science. Complexity was often measured in space and time, denoted by Ω, Θ and Ο. We learned about the fastest algorithms, the “hardest” problems and the methods to solve them or just prove that they are hard. That is what “complexity” meant to me. And then I started working… Continue reading Complexity

This is not a rant

I’m still here, I just have not had anything interesting to say lately. I have had a few drafts for a few different rants but I usually decide not to post them. Rants can of course be interesting and enlightening but in my case, I just did not feel like posting them in the end.… Continue reading This is not a rant

Intellectual stimulus

After a year of doing freelance programming/consulting, I have a better understanding of why some people choose academia or research as a career path: Intellectual stimulation. I have been working mostly with website and webshop backend programming and on a day-to-day basis, the recipe is basically the same: Create a datatable in a database. Create… Continue reading Intellectual stimulus