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Have you considered solving a different problem? What are agents trying to achieve when searching a code base? Finding seams. How about indexing seams instead?

Find out why your design is losing users through coupled value theory and how to fix it!

# HackerNews Announcement ## Title Generalized K-Means Clustering for Apache Spark with Bregman Divergences ## Body (3,982 characters) I've built a production-ready K-Means library…

# HackerNews Announcement ## Title Generalized K-Means Clustering for Apache Spark with Bregman Divergences ## Body (3,982 characters) I've built a production-ready K-Means library…

The failure of the Zenobia Pay encodes much of the REAL value of Mastercard and Visa: 1. A global, enforceable rulebook + dispute court. They standardize how authorization, clearin…

Good writing is more important than ever. Learn how good writing can help you overcome the barriers of time and distance.

AI has sparked new interest in high dimensional embeddings for approximate nearest neighbor search. Here is a highly scalable, implementation of a companion technique, k-means clus…

Well done!

Use chatGPT to understand dig output: Explain this : dig +human +norecurse @8.8.8.8 google.com HEADER: opcode: QUERY status: NOERROR id: 11653 flags: qr ra records: QUESTION: 1, AN…

Here is an analogy. Two softball players. One hits the ball 230 feet on average. The other hits the ball 210 feet on average. The homerun fence is at 220 feet. One is considered a …

Here is an analogy. Two softball players. One can hit the ball an average of 230 feet, 40% of the at bats. The other can hit the ball an average of 210 feet, 40% of the at bats. Th…

Funny. I worked at AT&T Bell Labs in the 80s. All of these insights seem eerily familiar.

Check out Place Not Race by Sheryll Cashin for a more nuanced, intellectual discussion: https://www.amazon.com/Place-Not-Race-Opportunity-America/dp...

Check out Place Not Race by Sheryll Cashin for a more nuanced, intellectual discussion. https://www.amazon.com/Place-Not-Race-Opportunity-America/dp...

The most important and irreplaceable asset you have is your time. Think very carefully about whom and how you spend it. You cannot get it back.

I deployed Gloo to production at Tidepool.org in November 2019. Rock solid tech, responsive team, excellent feature set.