This week we just had Ryan Zhang present at the Seattle Scalability Meetup. I did a little short presentation just showing some tools that I’ve been using as of late; DataGrip, and related schema migrations and Docker containers as I work through the schema migrations. It was a solid meetup and excellent conversation after meetup,... Continue reading →

This week’s selection, is a a selection, that I’ll leave here to speak for itself. Continue reading →

This Monday included some metal of various sorts, from metal tubes flying through the air to some riffy madness to boot. I’ve need an extra dose today! This first band is Parasite Inc. for a little German melodic death metal to end your Monday. Next up, check out Orden Ogan for a wild mix on... Continue reading →

Another flight down to the bay area. Today it was Alaska Air Flight 330 from Seattle to San Jose. It was mostly a clear day at start, with a solid layer of bright cloud cover exiting Washington on the way down to Oregon. As we crossed over that arbitrary human defined line of Oregon and... Continue reading →

UPDATED: Video Added from the Conference! Introducing Zhi Yang > @zhiiiyang < presenting “Hierarchical Topic Modeling in Cancer Research”. Topic models have been widely applied to extract topics from various range of documents or collections of texts, i.e., online customers reviews, medical records, scientific journals, legal documents, books and etc. Its application facilitates the process... Continue reading →