Michael BrundageMichael Brundagemichael@michaelbrundage.comhttp://michaelbrundage.com/2017-02-04T23:15:43-08:00June 2014 IBM Research Ponder This Challengehttp://michaelbrundage.com/note/2014/08/02/june-2014-ponder-this-challenge2014-08-02T00:00:00-07:00<p>Every month, <a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/">IBM Research</a> hosts the <a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/ponder/">Ponder This</a> challenge, which usually can be solved with pure mathematics but is often easier if combined with a little programming.</p>
Look at Your Datahttp://michaelbrundage.com/note/2014/05/11/look-at-your-data2014-05-11T00:00:00-07:00<p>Some work I did at Amazon was part of the inspiration for John Rauser’s 2011 Velocity talk, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coNDCIMH8bk">Look at Your Data</a>, and led to changes in Amazon’s monitoring systems 8 months after I left. I can’t share details about that work, but I’d like to give a concrete example of the phenomenon John described in his talk.</p>
Counting is Hardhttp://michaelbrundage.com/note/2014/05/11/counting-is-hard2014-05-11T00:00:00-07:00<p>In my experience, the vast majority of business analysis tasks do not require advanced data science or machine learning. They really just require counting and presenting those counts in a way that has impact.</p>
Hiring Great Data Scientistshttp://michaelbrundage.com/note/2014/05/10/hiring-great-data-scientists2014-05-10T00:00:00-07:00<p>In this note, I share my thoughts about the role of ‘Data Scientist’, how to hire great ones, and some practical matters of tools and version control.</p>
Egg Drop Puzzlehttp://michaelbrundage.com/note/2014/04/26/egg-drop2014-04-26T00:00:00-07:00<p>Given an N-story building and M eggs, how would you find out the highest floor of the building from which you can drop the eggs before they break? Eggs may be dropped again until broken.</p>
Personal Website Redesignhttp://michaelbrundage.com/note/2014/04/15/website-redesign2014-04-15T00:00:00-07:00<p>After 8 years of neglect, I recently recreated my personal website. This note describes the new site build, deployment, and design.</p>
Rye Breadhttp://michaelbrundage.com/note/2013/06/01/rye-bread2013-06-01T00:00:00-07:00<p>This bread is easy to make, healthy (no sugar and almost no oil), and delicious. I bake it 2-3 times a week for my family. Here are two recent examples:</p>
MIT Media Lab Visithttp://michaelbrundage.com/note/2013/01/24/mit-media-lab2013-01-24T00:00:00-08:00<p>The <a href="http://media.mit.edu/">MIT Media Lab</a> is a national treasure. At the end of January, 2013, I toured the lab and got to experience the future.</p>
Personal Remarks about the Xbox Emulatorhttp://michaelbrundage.com/note/2005/05/15/xbox-360-emulator2005-05-15T00:00:00-07:00A personal note about the Xbox 360 emulator project.Random Number Generationhttp://michaelbrundage.com/note/2005/01/05/random-number-generation2005-01-05T00:00:00-08:00<p>Do you use rand(), Math.Random(), System.Random, or java.util.Random? These are slow and less random than other algorithms available.
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