How do you name things? From your text ("I have a segment defined as a pair of start and end position plus its observation, a sample as a vector of segments, and all samples as a dictionary of samples") it seems you have a lot of different names for different things. Decide what names are important and which ones aren't (the "vector" and "dictionary" probably aren't).
Eric Evans wrote a big book called Domain-Driven Design about these things, but his advice basically boils down to this.
I won't have time to read big books in foreseeable future, especially if they are not related to my core research areas. But I will try this and see what I can get out of it.
Eric Evans wrote a big book called Domain-Driven Design about these things, but his advice basically boils down to this.