If you read my previous post about Particle Sketches and are literate in statistics, you may have already dismissed my ideas as flawed, convinced that they will shatter against the [...]
Come and meet our little beast at CloudForce in London today. Squirro is the personal digital research app. Broader than feeds and more specific than search, Squirro scans multiple sources from Internet channels [...]
I have been designing an interesting, novel (as far as I know) data structure. Its goal is to estimate a very large number Bayesian models in the smallest possible space [...]
I decided at the end of last year that I was working in the wrong place. The company was nice, the people were great, but the development practices and project [...]
It is a common pattern to prefer non-semantic primary keys — auto-incremented integers or UUIDs — over semantic ones. It’s advisable to define unique indexes on the semantic identity fields, [...]
Once upon a time, I worked for a small company that had a tiny office. It was just a big room where all the developers, designers and creatives assembled, plus [...]
Rethinkdb recently published a cat challenge. Well, it’s not really a challenging challenge if you can solve it by looking up Vigenère encryption from Wikipedia and following instructions. I don’t [...]
While searching for a job, I met a proprietary trading company that uses functional languages for their own systems. Jane Street is a private equity firm, specializing in statistical arbitrage. [...]
Lesson learned: Being an effective project manager is not about doing the work yourself, it is about making sure the right resource is applied to the right problem. (from The [...]
I have found this little gem in PragPub, May 2011: A depressing theme with many of today’s software shops is the need to only make two kinds of hires. The [...]
