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by adamdrake 8mo ago
Author here! It's great to see this post I wrote years ago still being useful for people. I agree with many here that the situation is arguably worse in many ways. However, along similar lines, I've been pleased to see a move awa
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by adamdrake 5y ago
Great point on the mobile layout. I've modified the site to make better use of space on smaller screens. Have a great weekend!
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by adamdrake 8y ago
Great! We (technologists) should be using machine learning approaches to practical real world problems, particularly those problems whose solutions allow humans to be more productive. That's what I mean by augmenting human intelligen
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by adamdrake 8y ago
I gave a lecture at the University of Toronto last year with a similar point to what the speaker was getting at. Namely, we should be focusing on augmenting human intelligence, not chasing some sort of future robot overlords. See https:&
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by adamdrake 8y ago
Most of the time, I've found a push to microservices within an organization to be due to some combination of: 1) Business is pressuring tech teams to deliver faster, and they cannot, so they blame current system (derogatory name: monol
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by adamdrake 8y ago
I run into the microservices obsession very often in the high-growth startups I advise, so often that I wrote Enough With The Microservices ( https://adamdrake.com/enough-with-the-microservices.html ). I typically see people
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by adamdrake 8y ago
One thing I haven't seen in the comments, but have observed personally is the accounting implications and reasoning for these failed SAP projects. Sometimes the project cannot be stopped immediately during development, even if it is al
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Big Data, Small Machine(adamdrake.com)
4 points by adamdrake 8y ago|0 comments
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by adamdrake 8y ago
I use it from time to time, but I certainly wouldn't consider myself an expert. When I need to do something beyond my current knowledge I search around a bit until I find the awk syntax I need to get the job done. Sorry I can't
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by adamdrake 8y ago
Or, as is my preference, how to analyze 366,000 Records per Second on my laptop: https://adamdrake.com/big-data-small-machine.html And that's with non-optimized code!
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by adamdrake 8y ago
If this kind of stuff is of interest for you, I wrote up some similar ideas (albeit in Go instead of standard command-line tools). 366,000 RPS on a laptop: https://adamdrake.com/big-data-small-machine.html
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by adamdrake 8y ago
Author here. If I can answer any questions, feel free to ask away!
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by adamdrake 8y ago
I'm not of the opinion that it is dangerous as an idea, but rather that the intentional deception I see on the AI topic is dangerous (not to mention unethical). I can't think of a single example of an "AI" company I talk
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by adamdrake 8y ago
I gave a lecture a couple of months ago called Developing your AI BS Detector addressing this very topic. https://adamdrake.com/developing-your-ai-bs-detector.html The main thesis is that there seem to be more and more comp
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by adamdrake 8y ago
I can definitely understand the feeling of wasted time, and perhaps I didn't do a good job of explaining the point. The main issue is that you shouldn't discuss your current salary, but you should absolutely discuss the budget
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by adamdrake 8y ago
Some thoughts on 'job hopping': 1. If you're in the first 10 years or so of your tech career, you should be changing jobs every 18 to 24 months. These are the primary years in which your salary goes up, and to stay in a ro
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by adamdrake 8y ago
When I moved it to AWS Lambda there was some size introduced from TLS and also from some headers that AWS API Gateway adds which seem, unfortunately, impossible to easily drop (e.g., if you make the headers empty in the response, APIGW will
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by adamdrake 8y ago
As has been mentioned, this is a common (albeit incorrect) use/understanding of what Command and Control actually is. I wrote an article some time ago to reframe this in a business context: https://adamdrake.com/command
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by adamdrake 8y ago
This is neat! I did something similar with https://tinysite.adamdrake.com where I have a website that fits into a single ipv4 datagram (at least it did when I was using my own HTTP server). More details here: https://
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by adamdrake 8y ago
True. The FEIE does cut that down a bit, but anything over the FEIE limits would still be subject to tax in the US, though not in the host country, as you mentioned. I was simply making the point that having a bona fide tax residence in a
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by adamdrake 8y ago
Not sure if you're a US citizen/green card holder or not, but it might be worth mentioning that if so all of your worldwide income is subject to reporting and taxation. If your tax liability in your bona fide tax residence is les
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by adamdrake 8y ago
For those interested, this might be a good place to mention Newsbeuter, but Mutt of feed readers! It can be pretty efficient to do feed reading and management via CLI. https://newsbeuter.org/screenshots.html
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by adamdrake 8y ago
Good point on the fit/predict difference. However, there are some models and techniques (e.g. logistic regression with hashing trick) where the fit and predict steps aren't all that different: https://adamdrake.com&#x2
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by adamdrake 8y ago
Fully agreed. I think the privacy angle is particularly compelling, and doing on-device analytics using models that have low memory requirements and acceptable (although not academically impressive) accuracy will be the norm. I wrote about
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by adamdrake 8y ago
Spot on. I usually summarize it with clients as "you have to show people you can lead yourself before you can lead others" and that usually gets the idea across. If you wouldn't follow yourself as a leader, then you have so
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by adamdrake 8y ago
Absolutely. People often don't appreciate or feel comfortable with the fact that when in a leadership role, the relationship changes. New leaders often focus too much on being liked, or having their decisions liked, over doing what i
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by adamdrake 8y ago
Teammate to Team Lead is a topic that I run into a lot with the companies I advise. I have a small post on the topic, which I'm planning to expand: https://adamdrake.com/teammate-to-team-lead.html There are quite a fe
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by adamdrake 8y ago
Military organizations have been studying how to lead people under a variety of conditions since effectively the dawn of time. Many people make the mistake of fetishizing military leadership, but I absolutely thing there is a lot to be lear
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by adamdrake 8y ago
1000x yes! Schemas are defined somewhere, even if it's a poor and bug-ridden definition in the code. Ditto for the point that JSON doesn't count. I wrote an article, On Schemas, to try and elaborate on this topic a bit. https:&#
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Big Data, Small Machine(adamdrake.com)
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