"Green team" consultant for compute cost control and capacity planning. If you spend eight figures I can help you save seven. Ex-Yahoo, Facebook, & Lyft.
Joined March 2009
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31 May 2022
Every business that spends $1M or more on their compute needs suspects that half of it is probably wasted money. The problem is: which half?
I've run analyses of billions of dollars of compute spend over the last 20 years, and this is what I've learned. 1/n
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22 May 2023
You can do nearly anything in a spreadsheet... except put your logic under source control.
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5 May 2023
If there's one thing I see again and again in "data science", it's an unwillingness to fuck around & find out. Don't be afraid of treating your input data as a goopy mass of numbers that can be recursively subdivided according to your will. Don't let the data push you around.
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5 May 2023
"But you can't just change what's in there!" Why not? Everything is under source control and if you wake up smarter tomorrow then you can change it better then.
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5 May 2023
My single biggest gripe in data science is that garbage numbers look just as pretty as good ones. Make and trash 90% of the thinkable, then keep the 10% that actually tell you things you don't already know. Don't "make reports", make the data reveal. Fuck around and find out.
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8 Apr 2023
What's a phrase that sounds normal at first but on second thought is very creepy?
I'll start: "gut fauna".
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8 Apr 2023
Burying the lede: he now favors packing SCOTUS. In the pages of HLR.
8 Apr 2023
One of the finest analyses of the collapse of the Supreme Court was written in the Harvard Law Review last year by a renowned legal professor at Stanford Law. I urge you to read it. (It's long.) harvardlawreview.org/forum/v…
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4 Apr 2023
Whether it's tourists in the Capitol on January 6, or children screaming at politicians in Nashville, both sides have a civility problem.
@DougJBalloon
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3 Apr 2023
Not that I think anything good will come of this. After a few days of recovering from their collective spittake, the kayfabe scripts seem to be set. WrestleMania, basically.
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2 Apr 2023
The one time Senator Sinema (D - Wall Street) feigns concern for the little people just also happens to be part of an argument for lower interest rates.
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2 Apr 2023
This is unusual.
Senator Krysten Sinema said, "It's gravely concerning that retail participants, literally everyday people, were able to figure out something was wrong with Silicon Valley Bank, before regulators took action."
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31 Mar 2023
The easy part is being your own boss. The hard part is being your own employee.
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30 Mar 2023
The way this FL/Disney thing will play out: now that the Santis board only controls roads and infrastructure, they will tear up the roads and shut off the water, then zero out the budget.
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29 Mar 2023
For an additional $2 per month, Twitter will stop switching you back to the For You tab.
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28 Mar 2023
My art history teacher had an interesting theory about the craze for carved legs. Automatic lathes came around, so what was once a luxury became cheap. Just like how print design went through its ugly baroque period when desktop publishing was new.
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27 Mar 2023
It feels like everything in Mexico is named after somewhere else. The most extreme example recurses *five* levels deep: Parque Mexico, which is on Avenida Mexico, in Ciudad Mexico, in the state of Mexico, in... Mexico.
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27 Mar 2023
Nothing, neither the chicken or eggs nor the statistics are to scale.
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22 Mar 2023
Recent mindasplode for me: I lived at sea level for 25 years where millibars plusminus around 1000 meant something about the weather. 950 was significant. The normal pressure in CDMX is *750* mb. Run-for-cover air pressure down by the dock of the bay is normal here.
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22 Mar 2023
One of my favorite mindasplode facts for under 30s: "podcast" came from iPod broadcast. Others include anything about pre-Unicode.
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