Stories by softwaredoug

A ‘Vibe Shift’ on Reddit–People Sharing Stories of Loneliness and Isolation

SQL search relevance, selective aggregation, and window functions in OpenSearch

The Fine Art of Not Fitting In

Performance improving techniques to make Spark Joins 10x faster

Great Man Theory

Amazon's Book Piracy Problem

Alarm in Beijing after announcement zero-Covid policy may last five years

What Is Presentation Bias in Search?

The Good Enough Parent Is the Best Parent (2015)

Reconstructing Relevance Judgments

The search for people who never get Covid

Deriving Search Relevance Judgments from an A/B Test

The Unlikely Story of How Minecraft Was Born (2013)

The Companies Cutting Staff, Freezing Hiring or Slashing Costs

Start with who, not why

How to Code a Neural Network with Backpropagation in Python (From Scratch)

Karpman Drama Triangle

Abuse and the developing human brain (2000)

How the East Coast’s busiest highway unraveled: 36 hours of misery on I-95

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