Please try again “Thanks for applying. We have decided that you are not a good fit here. We encourage you to apply again in the future even though we have not told you what was wrong with you as a candidate or application.” The data collectors “… We will keep your resume in our records—a […]
It began with a flight that was delayed for over five hours in the Boston airport after the 2010 US Nationals. At the time, I only really knew C++ and basic terminal interaction. I cannot recall where the idea came from besides manipulating array elements. There was a 1 by 3 row of “bits”, and […]
Apache Spark is straight-forward to use when there are large files that need to be chunked up and read, but what about when you have many small files? In this post we’ll look at a way to address many small files and some parameter tuning to speed that up. The sample data we’ll be looking […]
Settlers of Catan (SoC) is a German board game from the mid 90’s that found mainstream success in America in the late–00’s. To summarize the game: the board consists of 19 hexagonal resources tiles and these tiles get numbered markers (2–12). There are five resources, lumber, sheep, ore, brick, and wheat. These are used to […]