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Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers
This HTML version of is provided for convenience, but it is not the best format for the book. In particular, some of the symbols are not rendered correctly.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,888 posts.
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There is no data engineering roadmap
Data Engineering is booming and many are looking for a cheat sheet to get started. Do you really need to learn 200 tools before you get your first job?
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Amazon Aurora: Avoiding Distributed Consensus for I/Os, Commits, Membership
Amazon Aurora: on avoiding distributed consensus for I/Os, commits, and membership changes, Verbitski et al., SIGMOD’18 This is a follow-up to the paper we looked at earlier this week on the design…
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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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The Big Data Brain Drain: Why Science is in Trouble
Update, August 2014: see Hacking Academia , my most recent reflection on this subject.
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How Compaction Works in Pi
Why compaction is needed for large language models and how Pi implements it
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Comprehensive Guide on Data Visualization with Pandas
Visualization has always been challenging task but with the advent of dataframe plot() function it is quite easy to create decent looking plots with your dataframe, The **plot** method on Series and DataFrame is just a simple wrapper around Matplotlib plt.plot() and you really don’t have to write those long matplotlib…
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PostgreSQL, Memory and the Cloud
This post explains how Linux memory overcommit and OOM-killer behavior can turn a single runaway query into a full PostgreSQL crash, and why many managed cloud database services fail to disable overcommit the way self-hosted PostgreSQL recommends.
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SimpleDB: A Basic RDBMS Built from Scratch
My databases class at UCLA wasn’t very challenging so I never truly understood the internals of databases. This always bothered me so I vowed to build a simple database from scratch to learn the fundamentals. MIT's Database Systems course has their students implement a simple database from scratch and it provided me…
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Audio Fingerprinting with Python and Numpy (2013)
Personal Blog of Will Drevo
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SQLite in Production: Lessons from Running a Store on a Single File
Run Rails on SQLite with WAL and Docker volumes while accounting for the concurrency failure that appears during blue-green deploys.
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PostgreSQL example of self-contained stored procedures
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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File systems unfit as distributed storage back ends: 10 years of Ceph
This paper is by Abutalib Aghayev (Carnegie Mellon University), Sage Weil (Red Hat Inc.), Michael Kuchnik (Carnegie Mellon University), Mar...
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The CAP theorem of Clustering: Why Every Algorithm Must Sacrifice Something
No clustering algorithm is perfect and you must make a trade-off.
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Bloom filters are good for search that does not scale
Jonathan Arns's personal blog
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Indexing iCloud Photos with AI Using LLaVA and Pgvector
A straightforward idea, gluing stuff together until it works, but it’s a glimpse of what’s possible with help of local AIs in near future
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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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Data-Mining Wikipedia for Fun and Profit
The engineering blog of Bill P. Godfrey.
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Full-Text Search with DuckDB
Pete Doherty is a NYC based software developer
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Looking for Voter Fraud (In Old Elections) with Data Visualization
The 2020 US election is finally over, and all the election excitement of the last week reminded me of something I had been meaning to look into: Sergey Shpilkin’s data visualizations that cle…
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Reddit’s database has two tables (2012)
Steve Huffman talks about Reddit’s approach to data storage in a High Scalability post from 2010. I was surprised to learn that they only have two tables in their database.
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Data Science of the Facebook World
Stephen Wolfram shares interesting Facebook data analysis finds from the Data Donor program of Wolfram|Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook.