I have long been curious about 3D printers and my daughter has been playing with CAD programs for her middle school STEM Club. So I decided to do some research and buy the Creality Ender 3 3D Printer Fully Open Source with Resume Printing DIY FDM Printer 220x220x250mm off Amazon for $165. I also bought 2 1KG spools of PLA Filament so I could print things.
I am completely new to 3D printers, but i have put together my share of projects and I do engineering for my day job. I decided that 10...
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If you have been reading this blog, you'll know I collect sports cards. It's fun to share what I have with other collectors (by posting scans on sportscollectors.net, facebook, etc.).
A few years ago I bought a Brother MFC-9130CW all in one printer/scanner that I use to do my scanning. I usually set it to scan documents in legal format so I can fit 9 cards on a scan (3 rows by 3 columns). And since I want to do this most efficiently, I generally save them as a 200dpi pdf file with multiple page...
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At a recent meetup for the NYC Snowflake user group, the moderator asked the panelists what open source data tools do they use. I thought it would be nice to share my answers here.
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Last year I was eating lunch at a local Asian restaurant, and I pulled out an awesome message in my fortune cookie. It said, “Your dream must be bigger that your fear.” This message hits home for me, and this fortune is still attached to my monitor as a reminder.
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I wrote a ridiculous retirement email to members of my day job's fantasy league. It includes a fun comparison of myself and recently retired NFL star Rob Gronkowski (AKA Gronk). Hope y'all enjoy.
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I have lately been playing with some commercial BI & Dashboard tools. There is a certainly quite broad range when it comes to features, price, scalability, administration capabilities, how they can access data, and set up complexity. For a good sized enterprise (with 100+ users), some of these solutions can run you several hundred thousand dollars per year.
As part of my diligence, I felt like I need to look at the best of breed Open Source offering - Apache Superset created by AirBNB. So I...
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I thought it would be a fun exercise to write a short document about what I index on for my day job and folks I work with.
What matters most to me in a role:
Adding value to the world
Building a sustainable business (legit P&L)
Learning personally
Growing others
Working with great people
How I think manager relationship works best (from the manger perspective):
You are responsible for your career progression!
I want to know your goals (if you can't express them...
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In August, I spoke at the Snowflake analytics tour on the topic "Rent The Runway: Reinventing Retail with Data Driven Insights".
I was also asked to provide an account of our experiences migrating data warehouse vendors - going from Vertica to Snowflake. Below is the video:
In my 20's, I taught myself to code and I created what has become a fairly popular community for sports autograph collectors - SportsCollectors.Net. I have mentioned it a few times before on this blog.
There is a really passionate collector who also happens to be a Major League baseball player named Pat Neshek. Pat is a really effective middle reliever and made his second All Star game this season. He is also known as one of the most generous players of giving his time and autograph to ...
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Lately my team has spent a bunch of time migrating our data warehouse from Vertica to Snowflake. While Snowflake has excellent support for analytic functions, Vertica has some functions that no other columnar database supports.
The conditional change event function "assigns an event window number to each row, starting from 0, and increments by 1 when the result of evaluating the argument expression on the current row differs from that on the previous row".
CONDITIONAL_CHANGE_EVENT (...
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