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by frak_your_couch 9y ago
I'm the author of the blog post, so if you have questions or comments to me then you can reply here. :)
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A Blockchain Story Told Through the Eyes of Two Users(blog.caseystella.com)
2 points by frak_your_couch 9y ago|1 comments
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by frak_your_couch 10y ago
So, you guys forked gemfire, spark and spark-jobserver. Are you planning on going back into mainline or will you be maintaining the forks to stay current at some interval?
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by frak_your_couch 11y ago
Hey, sorry, got busy yesterday and forgot to respond to this. Well, I work for a Hadoop distribution, so I may have some biases showing through in my setup. I like to use spark in conjunction with Hadoop; I've never actually used it s
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by frak_your_couch 11y ago
Shameless plug for a series of blog posts that I wrote in 2014 about this dataset. The aim was to demonstrate how to analyze data with Spark and Python, but probably the most interesting two sections turned out to be Outlier analysis ( htt
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by frak_your_couch 12y ago
Great idea! I signed up, but I worry that there's no geographical adjustment for salaries. For instance, I make $200k and live in Cleveland. Even 20% more in NYC or SF is a very different lifestyle.
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by frak_your_couch 12y ago
If you are interested in this, you might be interested in my (warning: shameless plug) 5 part blog series located at http://blog.caseystella.com/pyspark-openpayments-analysis.ht... . I'm using the python bindings for
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by frak_your_couch 12y ago
I agree, I was super skeptical when I started with my current employer due to this policy. I cynically assumed it was intended to somehow deter me from taking any vacation. Then I took quite a bit of vacation and got absolutely no pushbac
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by frak_your_couch 12y ago
So does Hortonworks as of 2.1 http://hortonworks.com/blog/announcing-hdp-2-1-tech-preview-...
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by frak_your_couch 12y ago
Just wanted to add that I'm the author. If anyone has any questions, I'm happy to comment here.
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Making Sense of Political Texts with NLP and t-SNE(blog.caseystella.com)
1 points by frak_your_couch 12y ago|1 comments
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by frak_your_couch 12y ago
I've been the engineer in that scenario a number of times in my life. Almost every time there were management people who stayed who just couldn't contribute. Honestly, I didn't particularly need them to suffer. I'd ra
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Spark for Data Analysis: A Case Study(blog.caseystella.com)
2 points by frak_your_couch 12y ago|0 comments
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by frak_your_couch 13y ago
I guess this means IPO isn't going to happen this year.
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by frak_your_couch 14y ago
First thing that comes to mind is maybe you're underselling your successes in your resume. In particular, if you've been working a long time in the banking sector and you don't mention sufficiently prominently that you have experience ou
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by frak_your_couch 15y ago
Hey, sorry, one more time. The updated link is also wrong, it's relative to your blog rather than absolute i.e. http://technocalifornia.blogspot.com/2011/04/research.yahoo.... as opposed to http://research.yahoo.com/files/recsys2010_sub
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by frak_your_couch 15y ago
Just curious, why would you tell them your current salary? In salary negotiations, wouldn't that give the employer a substantial advantage in bargaining? I've been asked this before in post-interview negotiation, so evidently this is somew
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by frak_your_couch 15y ago
I just wanted to point out that the link on your blog to PureSVD points to the wikipedia page for Discounted Cumulative Gain.
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by frak_your_couch 16y ago
Well, I do disagree on the quality aspect. I'd like to see a high quality Calc I and II textbook that's free, coherent, and not aimed at MIT students. My wife is a faculty member and if you can find me one, I'll pass it along (they're con
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by frak_your_couch 16y ago
I have not, thanks for the tip. I looked at a book or so, but didn't see an easy away to comment on individual paragraphs like in "Real World Haskell", but maybe more of the interface opens up if you log in. ANyway, thanks for the tip!
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by frak_your_couch 16y ago
Well, I'd love and welcome a good high-quality open source textbook movement that happens to also be high quality. It's the quality issue that's the major problem at the moment, I'd say. I've LOVE to see, for instance, Math textbooks writ
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by frak_your_couch 16y ago
I think you defended your use of satire very well. Good job.
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by frak_your_couch 16y ago
Yeah, I came across Barr and Wells 5 years ago in grad school and found it almost impossible to buy. I ended up getting a copy from the library and photocopying and rebinding it. Like you said, it was ok, but hardly comprehensive. Maybe
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by frak_your_couch 16y ago
Any suggestions for a good Category Theory texts that're oriented to CS and go beyond the "classical" connections between cartesian closed categories and lambda calculi? Or am I stuck in another frustrating 2-week long session trying to