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by adenverd 7y ago
I worked at a larger services marketplace, helping data scientists get their models into production as A/B experiments. We had an interesting and related challenge in our search ranking algorithms: we wanted to rank order results by th
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by adenverd 7y ago
This looks really slick, can't wait to try it out! If anyone is curious about other tools in the same space, our data scientists use Dash[1] and plotly to build interactive exploration and visualization apps. We set up a Git repo that
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by adenverd 7y ago
Engineering manager here. I think a lot of people miss the point of standup, or abuse it to somehow micromanage engineers. Standup is for the team, not the manager or PM. It serves multiple functions, but the most important is the last bit:
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Filthy surgical instruments: a threat in America's operating rooms (2014)(publicintegrity.org)
155 points by adenverd 7y ago|121 comments
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by adenverd 7y ago
This article omits some pretty relevant info: * Thiel founded Palantir [0], which has a very deep and ongoing relationship providing counter-terrorism info and analytics to 3-letter agencies. His comments are likely an attempt to protect Pa
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by adenverd 7y ago
> We're sometimes asked: why is no one else doing this? https://joe.coffee/ https://www.ritual.co/ If you live in the Seattle area, check out Joe. They cover most of the local independent chains and
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by adenverd 7y ago
+1 would really love to read any style guides or writing class materials from Amazon, if anyone can share!
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by adenverd 8y ago
GS has a track record of working well with the OSS community. They open-sourced and maintained GS-collections (now Eclipse collections), a highly-performant Java collections library that they had developed internally. They benefitted from c
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by adenverd 8y ago
I think most of us would be sad or depressed if our lives were like his. But it seems like he has intentionally conformed the rest of his life to the things that matter most to him (his work, company, personal productivity) rather than what
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by adenverd 8y ago
Philosphize This! is excellent.
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by adenverd 8y ago
You can audit the course.
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by adenverd 8y ago
The suspected mechanism for caffeine withdrawal headaches is that more blood is flowing to your brain than it's accustomed to [1]. Caffeine works as a vasoconstrictor, reducing cerebral blood flow (CBF) by an average of 27% across user
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by adenverd 9y ago
In my experience, work before play is the most productive strategy. Two things that I think might help your situation: 1) Pomodoro technique - I modify this to be 45-60 minutes of work, 10-15 minute breaks. I do six of these throughout the
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by adenverd 10y ago
Well-written, props. Some architecture questions you might want to think about: - Why only one elasticsearch shard (+replica) per index? You run some major risks of write-time hotspotting here, especially if you ever have to completely rebu
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by adenverd 10y ago
100M? Of course you'd scale an RDBMS for that, especially if you want searchability and analytics. It's way easier than a Hadoop -> Elasticsearch pipeline (or pick your flavor). NoSQL databases are for BIG data. As in, billions
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by adenverd 11y ago
No, Lyons is drastically exaggerating and overstating. Perhaps that's what it was like at HubSpot, but I've worked for four different tech startups and only one of them has exhibited even an inkling of Lyons' description. Eve
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by adenverd 11y ago
This tool would be a lot more useful if it allowed for filtering by chosen course of study. For example, University of Washington has a median earnings that is slightly below expected, but I can pretty much guarantee that their computer sci
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by adenverd 11y ago
Arkansas has the same: Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts (asmsa.org).
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by adenverd 11y ago
These schools are all over the place! I graduated from the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts. Math and science schools are truly fantastic places for advanced high school students to get a quality education.
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by adenverd 11y ago
aewhite covered most points, but I'd also point out that a simple use case of a cluster with multiple indices of varying sizes (such as using ES as part of the ELK stack to store logs - a new index is created every day) will run into m
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by adenverd 11y ago
We've tested for stability when adding and removing nodes, but haven't compared the time-to-balance of tempest versus the default balancer. Because an ES cluster remains fully functional (you still have access to all data) while a
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by adenverd 11y ago
Oh nice! That looks close to what we were trying to do with this plugin. I'm not sure it would've worked within the constraints of the Elasticsearch environment, but the additional confidence of finding a solution that optaplanner
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by adenverd 11y ago
Checkout Intentional Software. It's a startup of about 70 people funded and led by billionaire CTO Charles Simonyi. They built a platform for developing domain-specific languages (on top of the CLR), and are now developing some pretty