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by gibrown 12y ago
Off topic, but since there are a couple of "why would someone poor buy a $1500 sofa" I thought I would link to a really great article discussing this: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/why-do-poor-people-waste
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by gibrown 12y ago
Looks really nice. We did something similar building a general ES Backbone framework a while ago. https://github.com/automattic/es-backbone/ We've deployed about 5 or 6 different search pages this way, its re
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by gibrown 12y ago
Interesting. Were you actually seeing failures without running multiple clusters?
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by gibrown 12y ago
Doesn't that mean that you immediately lose data if a node goes down or a disk dies? FWIW the split brain problems (while not impossible) are extremely rare in ES in my experience. Seems like you've traded one potentially rare pro
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by gibrown 12y ago
LDA/Topic Modeling is interesting stuff. I always feel like the way this data gets surfaced as "tags" is very ineffective. Any non-tech person would look at this and generally be confused. So this item is triggering my rants
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by gibrown 12y ago
Can I suggest that the European Courts of Justice is "irrelevant or outdated" and should now be deleted from Google?
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by gibrown 12y ago
Automattic (WordPress.com) - Planet Earth - Remote We're always hiring for many positions. Personally I want us to have more Data Wranglers: http://automattic.com/work-with-us/data-wrangler/ We have an immens
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by gibrown 13y ago
That was my experience as well. The few folks who managed to work remotely for an overseas company did really well, but pay rates within the country were a lot lower than I expected. Working at a distributed company, I really wish more Kiwi
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by gibrown 13y ago
props for the phrase "sweet as". Made my day.
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by gibrown 13y ago
I lived in NZ (mostly Christchurch) for about a year, and I think your characterization is way too general. NZ has a similar population to Colorado (where I now live) and a similar land area. It is far away from where my family lives (and h
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by gibrown 13y ago
Can I suggest another company dealing with large amounts of data at a similar scale: http://automattic.com/work-with-us/data-wrangler/ Yes this is a shameless plug for the company I love working for, but I think i
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by gibrown 13y ago
A better description of the bug: http://www.ual.es/~plopez/docencia/itis/patriot.htm It was related to limited precision, but was also related to using different calculation methods in different parts of the
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by gibrown 13y ago
Not sure how that's calculated. I assume it is accurate, but the index size is going to depend a lot on what kind of text you have and how it is separated into individual terms (or n-grams or all the other ways you can tokenize and fil
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by gibrown 13y ago
There are a lot of features thoughtfully combined that make ES great. Top of my list would be: 1. It handles human written language. Any language. The same technology that let's it handle strings written in human language provides a lo
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by gibrown 13y ago
While I agree with the sentiment, I think Shay (lead ES developer) has explicitly said that he does not consider ES to be a data store... yet. I think this is mostly due to maturity. I help run a large ES cluster (with canonical data in MyS
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by gibrown 13y ago
Another shameless plug: http://gibrown.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/unix-bi-grams-tri-gr... More about Natural Language Processing.
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by gibrown 13y ago
Unless your definition of 'engineer' is someone who drives a train, I don't see how 'engineering' doesn't apply to coding. At least good coding. I was an electrical engineer before being a software engineer. Th