This is a beautiful letter from Richard Feynman to a former student on what constitutes “important problems”. I’ve always felt that important problems are those that advance your own knowledge, and ideally, the knowledge of others. But there’s an even simpler definition: any problem that brings joy in its solving is worth your time.
Very well executed analysis of the data on trending YouTube videos:
A man in Maryland got misidentified by twitter users as the perpetrator of a deplorable attack and he published an article about what the experience was like for him. The accusation was retreeted half a million times. This part jumped out at me:
I’m often asked to recommend a book to help students get started learning Python. There are many good ones, but depending on your style of learning, I have two specific recommendations.
I used to say “repetition is the basis of all learning”. Now so sure about that…
A non-exhaustive list of videos I find inspiring, informative, and entertaining.
In this article we’ll build a simple yet powerful short link service using two of my favorite Google Cloud technologies: Cloud Run and Firestore. The code can be found on Github and here’s a slide version of this story.
Reportedly written about Joe Strummer…
This is the second of a two part series in which we focus on interesting queries and visualizations using the data pipeline we created in part one.
What’s bigger than Wikipedia? Spoiler: Wikipedia page views. This is the first of a two part series in which we’ll explore how to build a data engineering solution to process all 10TB of published wikipedia pageviews and entity data.
One easy way to get your data into the cloud, quickly and inexpensively (free actually!).
I learned something important today. I had an idea to suggest to someone. But I wasn’t neutral about this idea.
I’ve always felt there are two versions of me.
