A colleague of mine had an interesting problem. He was trying to calculate fill rates for tables in a database, but the only way to access the records was one-by-one. Given that it was a pretty large database, getting the fill rates was quite slow. Because the fill-rates are only displayed with three digit precision in his… Continue reading Statistics – When to stop
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Biometrics – Database sizes, scenarios and thresholds
There are many possible operational scenarios where biometrics are involved. In this power I will attempt to give some ingith in the possible scenarios and the effect on the type of biometrics required and the associated settings and procedures. The most practival use of this post is to use it as a reference for determining… Continue reading Biometrics – Database sizes, scenarios and thresholds
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The Joys of Open Source
On the job we use a large mixture of technologies, from open source javascript libraries found on github to expensive professional development IDEs like Microsoft Visual Studio. In the past (little over a year ago), all our builds were done through custom build scripts, we used ant here and there but most of the plumbing… Continue reading The Joys of Open Source