Continuo

Avro gateway 101.

LED Despair

In-memory Hadoop tasks. Long silence of jet lag memory. Delayed arrival of soul. Again.
The Interview.

Plastic Cocoon

White leather in baby-boomer era shop. Explosion of "input" throughout 60 years of scientific computing.

Design of modern econometric software interface. Simultaneous equations, macro variables. Solving large systems. Detecting feedback loops in online dynamics using voidbase. Tweets/topic frequency, news, trends. Automatic model-building and hypothesis testing.

Treating website management as policymaker problem ? Macroeconomic models of website user dynamics ? Closed economies + controlled foreign trade.

Marching life

Grand Pleasures with yellow light bulbs. Taste of espresso summoning from the long tranquil. Single entry on a vacancy of four.

The big rewind

Efficiency and models of virtual economies. Gold Farming and implications of investment-free outsourcing. Property testing and Szemerédi regularity lemma.

Voidbase queue persistence via Apache Avro. Streams not closing, cursor advance errors. Abuse EOFException to create Iterator. Handbook of Computational Econometrics on the bench. Elements revisited. Euclid's ideas as edifice of modern thought.

EDSAC and glory days of Econometrics at Cambridge. The dawn of Mark I era. Stressing the Klein-Goldberg model.

Diaries Of Recycled Helix

Distributed transactional log service. Lustre node failure handling. Traveling.

Facebook Scribe in action. Simple referent netty implementation. Eventual consistency by lazy map/reduce merging of independently-persisted queue data. Quick&Dirty java memcached client. Grand unified service stats tracking protocol.

Solid finale.

The Blueprint

Nuclear DNA. Eternal polymers and all the chemistry. Majestic carbon, in vitro.

C:H:O:N:S | amino acids as protein building blocks. Insulin as amino mix. Tape sequence analysis. Turing machine. Thymine facing adenine, guanine versus cytosine. Perpetual oppositions. Redundancy in service of O(1) replication.

Infinite string matching. Palindromic nature. DNA -> protein translations. Organic lookup tables. Bill Evans, Waltz for Debby. Bitter frost of the expectant spring. Error-Correcting codes ? Calling Shannon ... .

The low-hanging fruit. Heraclitus redux.