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Maybe a bit off topic, but: * What language is that software written in? * What was the hardest problem you had to solve, while working on it?
by Hendrikto 4y ago
Maybe a bit off topic, but:
* What language is that software written in?
* What was the hardest problem you had to solve, while working on it?
- spenczar5 4y agoMostly Python and Fortran. See for example https://github.com/oorb/oorb https://github.com/oorb/oorb. The hardest problems are always the social ones. How do you get uptake of a new method, how do you get funding, how do you politely tell a collaboration they are doing the wrong thing, etc. But if you mean pure technical stuff - the hardest problem I had to solve was rethinking some of the inner loops of the THOR algorithm. The problem was essentially to speed up a Hough transform in 6D space. Lots of time spent profiling CPU cache timings to get that fast.