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Encoding Data in Dubstep Drops
[Warning: Those who can’t stand EDM/dubstep, oh boy do I have bad news for you in regards to this blog post]
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 314 posts.
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We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers
After analyzing 1000+ Y-Combinator Companies, I discover there's a huge market need for more engineering-focused data practitioner roles.
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What’s behind the recent surge in the M1 money supply?
While the terms “money” and “wealth” often mean the same thing in everyday parlance, economists define money more narrowly as the component of wealth consisting of
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An Unlikely Database Migration
From JSON Files to etcd: A Tailscale Database Migration Story
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Using GPT-3 for plain language incident root cause from logs
Skylar Advisor combines real-time observability data, rich operational context, and customer-owned knowledge to deliver explainable AI guidance for IT operations.
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Simple Anomaly Detection Using Plain SQL
Identify Problems Before They Become Disasters
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How to Become a Data Engineer in 2021
The demand for data engineers is growing rapidly. According to hired.com, the demand has increased by 45% in 2019. The median salary for Data Engineers in SF Bay Area is around $160k. So the question…
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Reed-Solomon error recovery in RAID-6
A post describing a simple example how you can create your own manual error recovery solution based on what is used in RAID-6, in Python.
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Introduction to Window Functions in SQL
It is interesting that many people working with data have no clue about window functions in SQL. During a long period of time instead of using window functions, I preferred coding in Python and panda…
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Groundhog: Addressing the Threat That R Poses to Reproducible Research
R, the free and open source program for statistical computing, poses a substantial threat to the reproducibility of published research. This post explains the problem and introduces a solution. The…
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Why I'm Lukewarm on Graph Neural Networks
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I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year
What do I actually do with my time? How productive am I? I logged everything I did in 2020 and got some pretty cool data out of this.