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Gradient Boosted Decision Trees
From zero to gradient boosted decision trees
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,888 posts.
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Time for a WTF MySQL Moment
Documenting the reasons why I tend to prefer Postgres - even when it's my friends getting bitten.
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APFS changes in Big Sur: how Time Machine backs up to APFS
APFS adds 6 volume roles, including one which supports Time Machine backups. And per-file encryption is coming.
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CRDTs are the future
I saw Martin Kleppmann’s talk a few weeks ago about his approach to realtime editing with CRDTs, and I felt a deep sense of despair. Maybe all the work I’ve been doing for the past decade won’t be part of the future after all, because Martin’s
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The database I wish I had
I watched the talk " Platform as a Reflection of Values: Joyent, Node.js and beyond " by Bryan Cantrill, and I think he was able to put into words something I already felt for some time: if there’s no piece of software out there that reflects your values, it’s time for you to build that softwarefootnote:talk-time[ At…
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Are CRDTs suitable for shared editing?
The sole purpose of this blog is to host a single article..
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Let’s implement a Bloom Filter
I am planning to create a series of blog posts that includes some literature research, implementation of various data structures and our journey of creating a distributed datastore in distrentic.io.
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Surviving Django, if you care about databases
Django is currently the most commonly used full-stack web framework for Python. It has been around for a good 15 years, emerging as a winner from a period in which Python was already mature, but its web development tools were comparatively much more immature and fragmented.
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Let's build a full-text search engine
Full-Text Search is one of those tools people use every day without realizing it. If you ever googled "golang coverage report" or tried to find "indoor wireless camera" on an e-commerce website, you used some kind of full-text search.
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PostgreSQL beginner guide
It looks like nothing was found at this location. May be please check the URL for typing errors or start a new search to find the page you are looking for.
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Do NLP Beyond English
7000+ languages are spoken around the world but NLP research has mostly focused on English. This post outlines why you should work on languages other than English.
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Migrating a 40TB SQL Server Database
Initially, I wasn’t sure whether to write about this migration project, but when I randomly asked if people would be interested, the response was overwhelming. This was a long, kind of boring, very repetitive, and at times incredibly frustrating project, but I learned a lot, and maybe someone else will learn from this…
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1.1B Taxi Rides Using OmniSciDB and a MacBook Pro
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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Some SQL Tricks of an Application DBA
Non-trivial tips for database development
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GoodJob – a Postgres-based ActiveJob back end for Ruby on Rails
GoodJob is a new Postgres-based, multithreaded, second-generation ActiveJob backend for Ruby on Rails.
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Unofficial Guide to Datomic Internals (2014)
This post is a compilation of publicly available information, Datomic docs and google group answers about Datomic internals. Intention is to help others understand implementation model and use Datomic more efficiently.
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In Praise of ZFS on Linux's ZED 'ZFS Event Daemon'
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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13% of my website visitors block Google Analytics
There’s widespread use of adblockers on the web but users are increasingly blocking cookies and other tracking scripts too. Browsers such as Safari, Firefox and Brave are privacy-focused.
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CRDTs: The Hard Parts [video]
A talk at Hydra distributed computing conference , online (originally planned to be in Moscow, Russia), 06 Jul 2020
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Analysis of all YouTube trending videos in US for 2019
This analysis was featured on: The Hustle newsletter (lead story), TechCrunch, Hacker News, The Growth Newsletter (issue #021), Social Blade, Data Science...
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An Introduction to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
This is an interactive tutorial series about Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types, or CRDTs for short. Their purpose is to allow seamless replication of data on different nodes in a distributed system. Merging is by construction always possible, without any conflicts. This series assumes no knowledge about CRDTs, but…
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On moving from statistics to machine learning, the final stage of grief (2019)
I’ve spent the last few months preparing for and applying for data science jobs. It’s possible the data science world may reject me and my lack of both experience and a credential above…
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How Does Sqlite Work? (2014)
How does SQLite work? Part 1: pages!
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The largest city in each 10x10 degree latitude/longitude box
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Linear Regression
From zero to linear regression
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Recently minted database technologies that I find intriguing
I’m a huge fan of databases, so much so that I’ve written a book on so-called “NoSQL” databases, I spent some of my most fruitful years in tech working on the highly influential distributed database Riak , and I even built a database called Purple last year just for fun.