tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29473794Tue, 11 Mar 2025 05:48:08 +0000businessnewsletterfamilyhadoopMesosgridcluster computingconferencesmachine learningO'ReillyStrataSparkalgorithmscuisineworkshopscorporationsdata sciencepoliticsdigeratigreenheadcasemediapersianPythonfriendsfringewaremetaversestanfordstartupsCascadingawsterroirSchwadiscordianAmplifyPMMLPyDataanalyticscodeegregorgenetic programminglearninglinguisticsmilitarymusicrhetoricrussiaAMPLabEspañaExelixiGalvanizeUJupyterMoonOrioleSLOaiautopoiesisbacteriophagechatbotciderconsultingidentityinvestingright livelihoodsustainabilityubiHistory, to complement the home page at https://derwen.ai/pacohttp://ceteri.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Paco Nathan)Blogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29473794.post-3186894517839145468Mon, 25 Jul 2016 19:51:00 +00002016-07-25T12:52:17.306-07:00aiciderconferencescorporationscuisinedata sciencefamilyJupyterlearningmachine learningmediaMesosnewsletterO'ReillyOriolepoliticsPyDataStratasustainabilityubi Synecdoche Been absent from newsletter feeds for a year plus. During that time, several POVs changed markedly. Home: relocated from the shadows of the new Google X building …  to a rural part of Russian River Valley. Work: swapped more than an hour commute up to a SF tech start-up … for a 20 min bike ride to O’Reilly Media. Plus a few other priorities. While the newsletter name http://ceteri.blogspot.com/2016/07/synecdoche-newsletter-update-2016-07.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paco Nathan)0Sebastopol, CA 95472, USA38.4021359 -122.823880638.3523589 -122.9045616 38.451912899999996 -122.7431996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29473794.post-1337063207251056848Wed, 15 Jul 2015 23:40:00 +00002015-07-15T17:47:59.561-07:00conferencesGalvanizeUlearningmachine learningO'ReillyPyData For those who live in the Pacific Northwest – or may be heading in that direction soon – I'll be doing a few talks in Portland and Seattle next week: Portland, Tue Jul 21, 13:30–17:00 The Apache Spark tutorial at OSCON presents a hands-on introduction to Spark, with deep-dives into important components, SparkR and Data Sources API. The half-day tutorial considers examples from several Huawei http://ceteri.blogspot.com/2015/07/four-quick-links-for-july.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paco Nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29473794.post-2836060750500394324Sun, 31 May 2015 23:03:00 +00002015-05-31T18:22:37.013-07:00businesscluster computingconferencesdata scienceEspañamachine learningnewsletterO'ReillySchwaSparkStrata If you haven’t already been listening in to the O’Reilly Data Show Podcast hosted by Ben Lorica, then by all means do not walk, run to check it out! Episode linked above is with Anima Anandkumar @UC Irvine, recommended previously here, re: tensor analysis. Similarly, recent collaboration among David Gleich @Purdue, Austin Benson @Stanford, http://ceteri.blogspot.com/2015/05/newsletter-updates-for-may-2015.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paco Nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29473794.post-267008444761268125Sat, 07 Mar 2015 22:13:00 +00002015-03-07T16:13:09.231-08:00businessfamilyinvestingrhetoricright livelihoodstanfordstartups I am grateful for perspectives gained because our family lives in Silicon Valley. Many options here to work at novel ventures, and on fascinating projects… Opportunities to drop by Stanford or Berkeley for some remarkable guest lecture by a visiting expert… The wonders of an almost perpetual Maker Faire as one walks through the neighborhood on any given evening… Tech camps that our http://ceteri.blogspot.com/2015/03/sv-synopsis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paco Nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29473794.post-746263873769886983Sun, 01 Mar 2015 03:07:00 +00002015-03-02T17:24:21.864-08:00algorithmscluster computingconferencesdata sciencemachine learningMesosnewsletterO'ReillySparkstartupsStrataworkshops Not so much travel recently – Austin was my only trip this quarter so far. We’ve been heads-down reworking instructional materials to highlight what you can do with cloud-based notebooks. To learn more about that, check out the new Databricks newsletter. Snow near Cold Springs, California Meanwhile, my family gets to enjoy some time this weekend in a cabin near Yosemite, http://ceteri.blogspot.com/2015/02/newsletter-updates-for-february-2015.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paco Nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29473794.post-2645970529492133665Mon, 29 Dec 2014 09:20:00 +00002014-12-29T01:20:20.450-08:00algorithmscluster computingconferencescuisinedata sciencemachine learningMesosnewsletterO'ReillyPythonSparkstartupsStrataworkshops Chicago, Boulder, NYC, DC, SF, Stanford, London, Stockholm, Madrid, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Dulles, Baltimore, LA. The range of speaking events and business travel over the past quarter almost bewilders, but I’m grateful to get to meet many interesting people and learn about new projects.  Also feeling grateful to enjoy some quiet time at home with family over the holidays, and I wish&http://ceteri.blogspot.com/2014/12/newsletter-updates-for-december-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paco Nathan)0Mountain View, CA, USA37.3860517 -122.083851137.2851427 -122.2452126 37.486960700000004 -121.9224896tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29473794.post-273348647036572917Wed, 01 Oct 2014 04:11:00 +00002014-09-30T21:11:31.952-07:00cluster computingmachine learningMesosnewsletterSchwaSparkstanfordworkshops Highly recommended, Oct 2: an O’Reilly Media webcast Spark 1.1 and Beyond by Patrick Wendell and Ben Lorica. Two people who have much to share about where Apache Spark is heading. My favorite conference in a long while was the Spark Tutorial hosted by Prof. Reza Zadeh @ Stanford ICME – home of world-leading innovation for machine learning at scale. Thehttp://ceteri.blogspot.com/2014/09/newsletter-updates-for-september-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paco Nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29473794.post-511193874500172292Sun, 14 Sep 2014 19:00:00 +00002014-09-14T12:00:07.780-07:00AmplifyO'Reilly Amplify Partners Data & Analytics Fellowship — designed for engineers, analysts, students, and anyone else passionate about data science, analytics, data-driven apps, and data infrastructure. The fellowship includes full conference registration, airfare, and hotel accommodation to attend the Strata NY conference, Oct 15-17 in NYC. Fellows will be invited to join Amplify Partners along with http://ceteri.blogspot.com/2014/09/data-analytics-fellowship-oreilly.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paco Nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29473794.post-5913603097812364941Wed, 10 Sep 2014 19:36:00 +00002014-09-17T08:34:29.497-07:00cluster computingcodemachine learningSpark When we run Databricks training for Apache Spark, we generally emphasize how to launch a Spark shell on a laptop and work from that basis. It’s a great way to get started using Spark. It’s also the preferred approach for developing apps, for many people who use Spark in production. To wit, once you have an application running correctly on your laptop with a relatively small data set, then movehttp://ceteri.blogspot.com/2014/09/spark-atop-mesos-on-google-cloud.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paco Nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29473794.post-8005589023816937093Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:25:00 +00002014-07-31T09:25:29.964-07:00 I'm thinking that Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist, making broad claims about genomics, soil science, agronomics, etc., with obvious political outcomes, is sufficiently similar to William Shockley, a physicist who invented the transistor, making broad claims about population genetics, with obvious political outcomes. Both represent failures for science. The notion that an http://ceteri.blogspot.com/2014/07/ndgt-pseudoscience.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paco Nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29473794.post-6450165719163073048Mon, 28 Jul 2014 00:27:00 +00002014-07-27T20:24:02.999-07:00cluster computingconferencescorporationsfringewaregenetic programminggreenmachine learningMesosnewsletterPythonSchwaSparkstartupsworkshops Two aspects about leveraging machine learning are largely under-represented in the lit, especially when it comes to production use cases: feature engineering and the comparative evaluation of multiple modeling approaches. To that point, check out “Streamlining feature engineering: Researchers and startups are building tools that enable feature discovery” http://ceteri.blogspot.com/2014/07/newsletter-updates-for-july-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paco Nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29473794.post-1693911358103023557Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:00:00 +00002014-06-26T05:00:01.100-07:00cluster computingconferencesmachine learningMesosMoonnewsletterO'ReillyPMMLPythonSparkworkshops Been quite an interesting month: NYC, SJ/SF, bookended by Hadoop Summit and Spark Summit, with Foo Camp in the midst… much learned, and many excellent introductions. If you haven’t seen it, this is a gem: Seeing Spaces by Bret Victor, as an evolution of the “Maker Spaces” concept. Another top recommend is A Short History of and Introduction to Deep Learning by John http://ceteri.blogspot.com/2014/06/newsletter-updates-for-june-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paco Nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29473794.post-4936428111026309294Tue, 27 May 2014 06:03:00 +00002014-05-26T23:06:43.183-07:00conferencesdata sciencegenetic programmingmachine learningMesosnewsletterO'ReillyPythonSparkstanfordStrataworkshops Been quite an interesting past month or so: DC, Austin, SF, Ann Arbor, Atlanta, Seattle… with hopefully much learned from those travels, plus many excellent events and introductions. Meanwhile, I learned much from this gem, Therbligs for data science: A nuts and bolts framework for accelerating data work, by Abe Gong. Looking forward to seeing more about Therbligs from Abe. Definitely tunehttp://ceteri.blogspot.com/2014/05/newsletter-updates-for-may-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paco Nathan)0Seattle, WA, USA47.6062095 -122.332070847.2636815 -122.9775178 47.9487375 -121.68662379999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29473794.post-4779624072573165780Mon, 07 Apr 2014 06:06:00 +00002014-09-14T11:58:02.402-07:00AmplifyO'Reilly I'm advising Amplify Partners and they've launched a Connected Devices Fellowship that includes conference registration, airfare, and accommodations to attend the new O’Reilly Solid conference on May 21-22 in SF. The fellowship is designed for engineers, students, researchers, et al., who are passionate about infrastructure for IoT and connected devices: http://www.amplifypartners.com/http://ceteri.blogspot.com/2014/04/connected-devices-fellowship-oreilly.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paco Nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29473794.post-4956063413213892407Wed, 02 Apr 2014 12:30:00 +00002014-04-02T07:30:37.845-07:00conferencesdata sciencemachine learningMesosnewsletterO'ReillyPythonSparkStrataworkshops If you have not seen Data Science Folk Knowledge by Krishna Sankar, that is packed full o’ gems about Machine Learning. Following up on more follow-ups from Strata SC 2014, I’d like to point to an excellent article: 5 Steps to Thinking Like a Designer in Machine Learning by Kevin Dalias: We’ve all heard the saying that a data scientist is a cross between a http://ceteri.blogspot.com/2014/04/newsletter-updates-for-april-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paco Nathan)0Mountain View, CA, USA37.3860517 -122.083851137.2851427 -122.2452126 37.486960700000004 -121.9224896tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29473794.post-8437091559742988012Sun, 02 Mar 2014 15:30:00 +00002014-03-02T10:36:31.596-08:00Cascadingcluster computingconferencesmachine learningMesosnewsletterStrataworkshops Strata SC 2014 was a busy time indeed. I’m grateful to have had the opportunity to introduce speakers for several excellent presentations – in addition to presenting about Apache Mesos and meeting with many interesting people who were attending the conf. The keynotes this time were diverse, including brilliant and inspiring words from Geoffrey Moore, Rodney Mullen, and the capstone talk The http://ceteri.blogspot.com/2014/03/newsletter-updates-for-march-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paco Nathan)0Mountain View, CA, USA37.3860517 -122.083851137.2851427 -122.2452126 37.486960700000004 -121.9224896tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29473794.post-4435991045934655106Fri, 07 Feb 2014 16:56:00 +00002014-02-07T08:57:31.755-08:00AMPLabCascadingMesosO'ReillyPMMLStrataworkshops Strata SC conference is coming up next week. It's one of the busiest times of the year around here… FWIW, I was on the program committee and read/reviewed every one of the proposals. All of them!! So I wanted to share some upcoming highlights of Strata for those who will be attending. Beau Cronin and I will co-host the Hadoop and Beyond track throughout Strata conf. Please join us for an http://ceteri.blogspot.com/2014/02/strata-sc-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paco Nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29473794.post-7040014499865000739Wed, 22 Jan 2014 03:53:00 +00002014-03-02T06:49:35.064-08:00cluster computingconferencesnewsletterStrata A few quick updates… First, got a webcast on O’Reilly later this week: Getting Started Running Apache Spark on Apache Mesos. That will be Friday January 24, at 10am PT. Next, we have several workshops coming up: Bay Area in late Feb, DC in mid-Mar, then Boston in late Apr. The new Intro to Machine Learning workshop got great reviews, especially with the new “Just Enough Math” segment. The http://ceteri.blogspot.com/2014/01/newsletter-updates-for-january.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paco Nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29473794.post-6911545878793558330Sun, 22 Dec 2013 20:38:00 +00002014-03-02T06:49:48.564-08:00cluster computingconferencesconsultingExelixiMesosnewsletterPythonStrata Hard to believe it’s been since AMPCamp 3 in August that I’ve had a editor buffer open, collecting notes to write up… New Years Resolutions include writing a newsletter on a monthly basis! AMPCamp 3 was a big success: over 200 people attended a two-day marathon of hands-on work with the Berkeley Stack. Spark Summit doubled that attendance, and the upcoming http://ceteri.blogspot.com/2013/12/newsletter-updates-for-december.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paco Nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29473794.post-5497075957806509227Fri, 13 Sep 2013 20:19:00 +00002013-09-13T13:42:21.764-07:00Cascadingcluster computingdata scienceMesosnewsletter Got a Denver trip coming up this month, Sep 24-27, 2013 … we'll be talking lots about Apache Mesos and Cascading / Cascalog / Scalding, with demos and some O'Reilly books to give away. If you're in the area, please come by some of these events! Boulder/Denver BigData Meetup: Cluster Computing with Cascading and Mesos http://www.meetup.com/Boulder-Denver-Big-Data/events/131047972/ Wed 9/http://ceteri.blogspot.com/2013/09/got-denver-trip-coming-up-this-month.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paco Nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29473794.post-7901779937162157011Mon, 26 Aug 2013 12:00:00 +00002013-08-26T08:32:45.118-07:00cluster computingdata scienceMesosnewsletter Lots of talks, lots conferences, lots of writing. Here are the latest updates about scheduled events, along with pointers to some of the best content that I've been studying lately. YARN has a Docker-sized hole. Brace yourselves, in this post some friends at [ list the Hadoop vendors, other than MapR ] may get upset. Good friends all, I wish them the best. However, some things must be http://ceteri.blogspot.com/2013/08/newsletter-updates-for-august-2013.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paco Nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29473794.post-3683128417771509683Mon, 22 Jul 2013 21:25:00 +00002013-08-25T15:37:18.615-07:00newsletter Lots of talks, lots conferences, lots of writing. Here are my latest updates about scheduled events, along with pointers to some of the best content that I've been studying lately. Got to speak at Hadoop Summit last month, about the Pattern project. Great audience, lots of discussion about deploying predictive models at scale on Apache Hadoop clusters. BTW, one of the http://ceteri.blogspot.com/2013/07/newsletter-updates-for-july-2013.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paco Nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29473794.post-106632910395982392Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:58:00 +00002013-06-18T20:23:14.820-07:00newsletter Lots of talks, lots conferences, lots of writing. Here are my latest updates about scheduled events, along with pointers to some of the best content that I've been studying lately. First, the Austin trip was awesome. Many thanks to all who attended the events -- and especially to those who participated in the workshop for excellent feedback. We've learned much from your suggestions, to use http://ceteri.blogspot.com/2013/06/newsletter-updates-for-june-2013.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paco Nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29473794.post-6830634865155488152Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:30:00 +00002013-06-11T08:30:54.054-07:00 Here's a quick note to state that my new "Official" home page has been updated and now lives at http://liber118.com/pxn/ Check there for news about upcoming meetups, talks, and our world tour of "Intro to Data Science" hands-on workshops.  Plus, more links to interesting happenings related to large-scale data. http://ceteri.blogspot.com/2013/06/new-official-home-page.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paco Nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29473794.post-2859177422102027516Mon, 06 May 2013 20:40:00 +00002013-06-11T08:25:46.998-07:00newsletter Lots of talks, lots conferences, lots of articles. Here are the latest updates about scheduled events, along with pointers toward some of the best content that I've been studying lately. [ Sign up for PXN Newsletter: "Data Workflows" http://liber118.com/pxn/ ] The O'Reilly book is due in print June 22 – just in time for Hadoop Summit. An online "Rough Cuts" version should be http://ceteri.blogspot.com/2013/05/newsletter-updates-for-may-2013.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paco Nathan)0