- My current team created a project that lets you run complicated, multi-dependency Java code in an non-blocking manner. Internally, the framework uses topological sorting of a graph of nodes, where each node is a method with potentially blocking code and the dependencies between the nodes are the edges of the graph. The framework is able to set up callbacks automatically in the right order given the above.
- iOS6 auto-layouts internally use constraint solving on a set of linear equations so that you can write code to set the layout of your UI elements in terms of equations (so that you can basically just say that your button should be at 40px left of center of its superview, and with a 100px padding from the bottom).
- I wrote code to improve the accuracy of models at my previous job by employing various machine learning algorithms (thanks Andrew Ng and Coursera).
These might be isolated examples, but my point is that some of the best code I have seen uses a lot of math and CS concepts (sometimes in clever ways).
- My current team created a project that lets you run complicated, multi-dependency Java code in an non-blocking manner. Internally, the framework uses topological sorting of a graph of nodes, where each node is a method with potentially blocking code and the dependencies between the nodes are the edges of the graph. The framework is able to set up callbacks automatically in the right order given the above.
- iOS6 auto-layouts internally use constraint solving on a set of linear equations so that you can write code to set the layout of your UI elements in terms of equations (so that you can basically just say that your button should be at 40px left of center of its superview, and with a 100px padding from the bottom).
- I wrote code to improve the accuracy of models at my previous job by employing various machine learning algorithms (thanks Andrew Ng and Coursera).
These might be isolated examples, but my point is that some of the best code I have seen uses a lot of math and CS concepts (sometimes in clever ways).