stuartaxelowen

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by stuartaxelowen 11y ago
It only specifies pricing per CPU - how is affected by memory per node? Is that configurable?
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by stuartaxelowen 11y ago
I'm very interested in ways we can expand LDA (and other topic models) to retain more of the meaning of the documents, especially for small feedback (like reviews), such that a human could explore the results and find impactful, action
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by stuartaxelowen 11y ago
There's a script for that, actually: http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/ec2-scripts.html
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The Last Analytics Company(blog.stuartowen.com)
2 points by stuartaxelowen 11y ago|0 comments
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by stuartaxelowen 11y ago
Having those what-ifs is a sign you're got some good ideas - we'll see the right ones at the right times.
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by stuartaxelowen 11y ago
The drone wasn't carrying a loaded gun - that was seized from the two men.
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by stuartaxelowen 11y ago
It makes working with iterators easy - this way you're always talking about one thing at a time, instead of the whole collection/iterator, making efficient computation easy. Also, the abstraction allows for optimizations like dele
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by stuartaxelowen 11y ago
If you're interested in this kind of stuff in python, you should check out datastreams: https://github.com/StuartAxelOwen/datastreams
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by stuartaxelowen 11y ago
Your solution sounds like Enterprise Java to me - instead of understanding one long simple solution, you have to understand 3 shorter, less simple solutions.
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by stuartaxelowen 11y ago
It feels like their growth strategy is "make security decisions for other people".
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by stuartaxelowen 11y ago
Invite-based sign ups create a false sense of demand. This is the tactic behind gmail's huge growth.
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by stuartaxelowen 11y ago
I believe they're an open-source-as-a-service company like Chef or Datastax.
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PredictionIO – an open-source ML stack built on Spark, HBase, and Spray(prediction.io)
86 points by stuartaxelowen 11y ago|16 comments
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by stuartaxelowen 11y ago
Thanks for posting those, their splash page gave me the feeling that you were always responsible for the docker mental overhead.
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by stuartaxelowen 11y ago
The IronWorker doesn't seem to fulfill the same promise of simplicity that Lambda does. It's talking about scheduling and creating docker instances where Lambda says "just give us your code".
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IBM doubles down on Apache Spark(venturebeat.com)
10 points by stuartaxelowen 11y ago|0 comments
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by stuartaxelowen 11y ago
Now that's an inflammatory title. Didn't local corruption mean that land-owners would gouge the Red Cross, causing them to spread aid in different ways?
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by stuartaxelowen 11y ago
As they say in Python - we're all consenting adults.
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by stuartaxelowen 11y ago
In a sense, you are programming your team, in all the things you emphasize and spend time talking about at meetings. Also, there are obvious things that make developers more able to deliver quality software, and there are obvious things tha
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by stuartaxelowen 11y ago
The challenge there is that tasks like marketing and sales take an immense amount of talent and experience to do well - and they gain very little from software engineering knowledge. Sure, there might be sales tools to help track progress,
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by stuartaxelowen 11y ago
One big one: talk with marketing and sales about marketing and sales things. It helps you look into engineering from the outside, and see the other side of the interface - it shows you the pain of missed deadlines, and the surprising benef
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by stuartaxelowen 11y ago
> A silver player is simply better than a bronze player. > There's not some magic thing that a senior developer has that a junior developer is missing. "They're just better" is a way of saying "this is magic a
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Pipelining – A Successful Data Processing Model(blog.stuartowen.com)
57 points by stuartaxelowen 11y ago|8 comments
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Join – SQL-style joins for Python iterables(pypi.python.org)
1 points by stuartaxelowen 11y ago|0 comments
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by stuartaxelowen 12y ago
It is disappointing, isn't it? This is the market for which 16 GB isn't just a niche need anymore - and I sorely wish there were more MBP dev machine competitors.
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Why Isn't There a Map-Reduce Language?
5 points by stuartaxelowen 12y ago|1 comments