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lemongrasscloud.com | Senior Kafka Engineer | Hybrid (Chicago) Lemongrass is a SAP focused consultancy support customers as they look to keep up with SAP's "migration to the cloud"…

Where are Kafka people congregating these days? I've come across an absolute mess of a Kafka deployment within the walls of a large customer. I expect I may find more if I start lo…

I'm reading a lot of comments here that are defensive about their phone usage. I think that misses the point. It's fine to chase productivity (real or otherwise) and we can all rat…

I won't even bother clicking this click bait title. I learned Pascal as a sophomore in high school and by my senior year I knew I'd never touch it again. At the time it was a great…

MTurk has had this issue for years. If you tried to us MTurk to do any text or image labeling since at least 2018 you were majority of the time getting output from a poorly functio…

No, we've got our own fine tuning pipeline and initial tests showed better performance without traditional stem/lem processing so we dropped it from our classification pipelines an…

I really appreciate how accessible SpaCy has made NLP work but their NER is definitely low accuracy. Where stem/lem felt critical to successful NLP processing a few years ago, we'v…

I'm not at all surprised to see this. The writing has been on the wall that Hitachi has an appetite for getting into enterprise software. 5-ish years ago they bought an SAP infrast…

This makes me uneasy. The fact that there will be regulatory investigations should also concern you since a solution like this could easily be implicated in misleading retail inves…

Amusingly enough, I've got a document that's essentially a list of ideas where the business model is spurious at best and on that list is a solution almost identical to what was bu…

As an industry we're letting history repeat itself and making all the same mistakes. There are different kinds of developers. At it's most base form, you have systems focused devel…

My guess is theres some sort of yet to be identified global issue. Seems Comcast has been spotty in parts of the US, slack is down, youtube was briefly inaccessible for me, etc.

The US in particular has taken the pursuit of convenience to extremes and the abuse of plastics is one of the clearest examples of that. Most packaging should be glass, paper, or m…

Having consulted for a major glass manufacturer I can assure you that recycled glass is a coveted resource. It's easier to work with and it's less energy intensive. I wasn't involv…

I've been talking to as many companies as I can during all of this. The surge is not evenly distributed but a lot of companies are seeing surprising upticks in online traffic and s…

China is 2x the emitter that the US is and it's going to get worse. China has more than doubled their per capita emissions in the last 20 years. Many other countries will follow su…

I don't understand the whataboutism happening in response to this article. Countries do bad thing sometimes, the US most certainly does. But can we not just be happy that there's s…

The US was researching comparable systems (and smaller) back in the mid 2000s. I knew a few people involved in those programs and seriously considered joining. Things went very qui…

I've never worked in the industry but I've been casually studying about it for the last 10 years or so. I'm well aware of the roots of our current agriculture system stemming from …

I'm hoping for a single solid study establishing either A) alternative farming practices that are reasonably efficient and profitable to highlight a way for smaller scale farmers t…

I cannot wait for the day that the US seriously revisits the farming subsidies and agricultural practices we've adopted. Everytime I read about modern, large scale farming I'm a li…

Absolutely this. We're actively building a system to better monitor effectiveness of social content and it's amazing hearing the relief from people when they're seeing numbers for …

I have a doctor friend who's made it a habit to recommend that patients use GoodRx anytime they go to pick up prescriptions. Doctors can only be so involved in the pharmacy side of…