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Performance analyst, 'rocket scientist' & Xerox PARC alum 🇦🇺🇺🇸 Consultant, author, teacher, physics, math, stats, chem and some 🎸 performance too.
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#TIL Cunningham's Law meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunning...

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Definitely felt that one (twice?) @USGS_Quakes Luckily it's only THURSDAY the 13th 😬

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As someone trained as a trade economist, it is my duty to share the 1929-1933 Kindleberger Spiral, showing the month-month decline in global trade due to the combined factors of the (global) Great Depression and retaliatory tariffs. Smooth Hawley is implemented mid-June 1930.

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#TIL "cope" as a vernacular noun, e.g., "an unprecedented level of cope around DeepSeek". Apparently, "excuse" is no longer hip. naologic.com/terms/conten...

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"New Chinese GenAI app DeepSpeek sparks existential panic in American AI companies and investors." Gosh, what a surprise. They did the hard work of attenuating performance and scalability bottlenecks rather than playing the hype game. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/d...

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"Benchmarketing Fallacies: The 100 Shades of Truth" by @forked_franz www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCry...

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RIP Canadian musician 🇨🇦 Garth Hudson (Aug 2, 1937 – Jan 21, 2025), composer of one of the most iconic studio organ-intros in rock history #Canada #music www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7qq...

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"SQLite has become the most widely deployed database engine in existence … found in nearly every smartphone, computer, browser, TV & automobile" SQLite: Past, Present, and Future Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Vol. 15, No. 12 (2022) www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol15/... #SQL #database #datascience

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No @usgs-quakebot.bsky.social , I did not feel this one. Mt. Diablo thrust fault?

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NASA/JPL narrowly escapes LA fire damage. "An inaccurate map circulating on social media stoked fears by showing the fire reaching JPL’s eastern gate." www.science.org/content/arti...

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I wonder if the Eaton fire in Altadena took out Feynman's (former) house near the top end of Page Drive? Doesn't look good. /cc @phalpern @CAL_FIRE #EatonFire Condolences to everyone affected.

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Drop-D tuning ... the hard way.

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Donald Knuth’s annual Christmas Lecture 2024 www.youtube.com/watch?v=au26...

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A section of the Santa Cruz Pier has broken off. Note also the threatening waves on the horizon.

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Yes, I felt it. #earthquake #USGS

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The Buzz About Guerrilla Training Online perfdynamics.com/Classes/comm...

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Scaling Kafka to Support PayPal’s Data Growth medium.com/paypal-tech/... #kafka #scalability #performance #paypal

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USGS: Did you feel it? Me:

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GCAP class Day-6 we covered: 1. Little's law in 3D and performance isolines 2. Concurrency control vs. rate throttling 3. Ubiquitous load-dependent queueing effects www.perfdynamics.com/Classes/sche...

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GCAP training Day-5 lnkd.in/gGXmKQw TIL from @ShripadAgashe 1/2: Gatling benchmark harness: Open vs Closed workload simulators gatling.io Think QUEUES cf. "How to Emulate Web Traffic Using Standard Load Testing Tools" lnkd.in/g34VMtZY

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Think ur infrastructure is big? Try this ...

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If ur in the SF East Bay and in need of musical instrument repairs, check out JAMS on San Ramon Blvd. Here's my excellent experience facebook.com/jamsmusicdub...

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In case you missed Test VI of the last v1 Starship, this is the test payload—all 120 gm or 1/4 lb. Those @SpaceX engineers are a bunch of clever monkeys. 🥁 youtube.com/watch?v=Hj4t...

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RIP Vick Flick (14 May 1937 - Nov 14, 2024). Noted British session guitarist, best known for playing the iconic twangy riffs on the first James Bond movie theme ("Dr. No"). www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeuh...

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You can peruse my Twitter timeline at x.com/DrQz

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Seats are still available for the online GCAP class that starts Nov 25. perfdynamics.com/Classes/sche... #performance #training

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Performance issues are always lurking. Better to prepare for them and otherwise prevent them in the future. Guerrilla Capacity & Performance online classes offer some of the most powerful techniques applied across all platforms. perfdynamics.com/Classes/sche...

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