lil_tee

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What Real-Time Gambling Data Reveals About Sports: Introducing Gambletron 2000(news.rapgenius.com)
13 points by lil_tee 13y ago|0 comments
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One Weird Trick to Make PostgreSQL 15,000x Faster(news.rapgenius.com)
3 points by lil_tee 13y ago|0 comments
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Seattle vs Denver Live Win Probability – Gambletron 2000(gambletron2000.com)
2 points by lil_tee 13y ago|0 comments
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What do Rappers Have in Common with New York Times Wedded Couples?(news.rapgenius.com)
11 points by lil_tee 13y ago|2 comments
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by lil_tee 13y ago
I think the projection becomes relevant when you're looking at "straight" borders like Colorado. A great circle will bend slightly north of the northern border, so you can actually just barely touch Wyoming and Nebraska, but
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What's the Most Concave State in the U.S.? Using R to Solve a Geography Puzzle(news.rapgenius.com)
177 points by lil_tee 13y ago|57 comments
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N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section(news.rapgenius.com)
250 points by lil_tee 13y ago|64 comments
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Better Queuing Metrics With Updated New Relic Add-On(blog.heroku.com)
8 points by lil_tee 14y ago|0 comments
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by lil_tee 14y ago
We have updated our post to incorporate some popular suggestions and reactions into our simulations: http://rapgenius.com/1504221
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by lil_tee 14y ago
Simulation author here with some additional analysis using a faster distribution of request times. If you use a distribution with median 50 ms, 90th percentile 225 ms, and 99.9th percentile 898 ms, then you need 30 intelligent dynos to hand
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by lil_tee 14y ago
I'm not familiar with minimum-of-two-random routing, but it does seem like assigning request to dynos in sequence would perform much better than assigning randomly (ie in a scenario with n dyno capacity, request 1 => dyno 1, request 2 =
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by lil_tee 14y ago
But you never want to have a queue on any of your dynos! A queued request means that a user is waiting with no response. If your goal is to have 0 (or less than epsilon) requests queued, it takes far fewer dynos if the requests are routed