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by msteffen 8y ago
It may be time for a refresh, but our CEO has such a blog post from about a year ago: https://medium.com/pachyderm-data/provenance-the-missing-fea...
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by msteffen 8y ago
> The problem had to do not just with data analysis per se, but with what database researchers call “provenance” — broadly, where did data arise, what inferences were drawn from the data, and how relevant are those inferences to the pres
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by msteffen 9y ago
Would any of the authors be willing to comment on how questions are generated (i.e. what algorithm)? Asking as somebody with a casual interest in AI
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by msteffen 9y ago
Well, per Steve Yegge's original post, it's distribution in general. My understanding of his general argument is that when distribution is controlled by Amazon, everybody buys everything from Amazon. When distribution is controlle
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by msteffen 9y ago
Why do a study in the first place? Particularly when the outcome of the study is a foregone conclusion as far as the author is concerned. Just go to professional conferences and say "researchers say this works, but those of us with cli
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by msteffen 9y ago
I worked at Google, and Alan Eustace, Google's most emphatic champion of gender diversity when I worked there, repeatedly emphasized that Google couldn't lower its hiring bar for women candidates, because that would hurt the reput
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by msteffen 9y ago
As a former ICPC world finalist who later worked at Google, I would say that practicing for programming contests is almost like cheating as far as Google interviews are concerned. The Google interview format is almost identical to the ICPC
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by msteffen 9y ago
I don't understand the negative reactions to this. Emigrating to a new country is hard, being a teenager is hard. She was frustrated with her new culture for not accepting her and with her old culture for putting her in an impossible p
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by msteffen 9y ago
When you're free soloing, you climb much faster and with much less equipment. With safety equipment, climbing El Cap takes 2-4 days, and you have to pull up several bags of equipment behind you with pulleys. Without any safety equipmen
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by msteffen 11y ago
So the idea is that if I'm an early-stage startup, I can set up a PFS cluster early on, store my logs there, and then I'll still be happy with that infrastructure 3 years later? Like the data pipelines that I write early on will s