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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
You can be proficient in both, maybe you are good at one, it’s very hard to be excellent at both – but the whole point is that you cannot fill [...]
MonoDevelop 2.6 is now stable, but there is no official port of the F# plugin. I forked it on githuband got it to compile and install properly, but there is still [...]
