Computer Science, Math, and Statistics

The odds that you took a dump at 7:30:12 am is 86400 to 1. A rare dump indeed!

A dive into Twisted, SSH, & Git

How to get iPython notebook running on AWS

Automatically Synchronizing Crowd-Sourced Concert Videos

If you are trying to build an internet business, find a CTO, not a consulting firm.

When you’re a building a web application with a small team and “moving fast”, unit tests always seem to be the first thing you can set…

After looking at a ton of iOS code, I started wondering why almost EVERYTHING is a pointer.

I have no experience in iOS development except for iOS6, hence the title.

Just over three years ago, on March 24, 2010, I didn’t get “the call” that was supposed to change my life – a congratulatory call from the…

UPDATE: I’m currently available for Django/Machine-Learning/Design consulting.

Someone pointed this out to me, and after googling around, I could not figure it out.

Almost all of the sites I build use NGINX for load balancing and gunicorn for my django applications servers.

Here is a referesher for anyone that has forgotten the difference between permutations and combinations.

Are you sick of the results of your CTRL+SHFT+4 (screenshots) on your desktop?

Have you ever deleted a file and a few commits later realized you actually needed it in your project because of a hidden depedencies you…

I just reformatted my computer with OSX Lion, and needed to re-build my entire development environment.

If you have a production computer on EC2 you should periodically check how much space the root partition has.

I am working on a dashboard right now that requires some interesting interactive D3.js

I was just doing some late night reading and came across this article: http://gigaom.com/data/why-becoming-a-data-scientist-might-be…

I am developing Django sites on my local machine and wanted to use Nginx as a front-end proxy to serve static content.

It's very easy to add user/password authentication to your mongo database: 1.

This might be the greatest thing since sliced bread: https://gist.github.com/3740034

I have been cutting and pasting a lot of D3.JS code lately, and one thing I wanted to do was replace line numbers from code liket this:…

I have recently started using Hadoop again after a few months off, and decided to document how to get Hadoop + a simple word count example…

I like MongoDB .... a lot. One of the great things about MongoDB is if your applicaiton is using/storing data coming from the Facebook…