The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 304 posts.
One of the most consistently popular posts on this blog has been my XKCDify post, where I followed in the footsteps of others to write a little hack for xkcd-style plotting in matplotlib. In it, I mentioned the Sketch Path Filter pull request that would eventually supersede my ugly little hack.
To protect concurrent transactions from anomalies that can break the consistency of CockroachDB, we require an Isolation guarantee...
Let me start this post by noting that I will not attempt to test Godwin’s Law , which states that:
The prior piece received a much stronger reaction than I expected. The topic is complicated, with ideas that are difficult to adequately convey in words, so I’m going to use this piece as a follow-up. I’m going to look at the specific example of the Tech Bubble, which is a clear case in which the broad adoption of a…
A guide for getting started with Bayesian Statistics! Start your way with Bayes' Theorem and end up building your own Bayesian Hypothesis test!
Listicles like these do work – not only do they attract attention, if the content is also valuable (and in this case it is, trust me), the article format can be extremely entertaining. This a…
Today we are releasing our latest open-source project: Backblaze Reed-Solomon Java library for erasure coding. Click for details on how to use and download.
“Prince is synonymous with indulging in yourself shamelessly and with passion. His music and his cultural impact mean more than words can offer.” “He taught me that being black wa…
When people think of “data science” they probably think of algorithms that scan large datasets to predict a customer’s next move or interpret unstructured te...
The last time I looked at house prices it went pretty well, and I ended up winning a data science competition. There I was only dealing with a million or so records, and a relatively small 120 MB dataset. Then I found out it was possible to download 3.7GB of property sale records for all of England and Wales since…
Several AWS teams are focused on simplifying and accelerating the process of moving on-premises data to the cloud. We started out with the very basic PUT operation and multipart upload in the early days. Along the way we gave you the ability to send us a disk, and made that process even easier by launching […]
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…
This is the third of a series of four posts based on a presentation I did at the Barcelona Ruby Conference called “20,000 Leagues Under ActiveRecord.” (posts: one two four and video ).
Today we’re pleased to announce the release of RethinkDB 2.3 (Fantasia). Download it now !
Open NYC data reveals the taxi industry’s contraction, Uber’s growth, and the scramble for market share
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