Comments for Kurt Grandis

Comment on Python + Django vs. C# + ASP.NET: Productivity Showdown by Andreas

Andreas — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:38:30 +0000

Congrats on the switch. Hope you wont regret it=)

Comment on Python + Django vs. C# + ASP.NET: Productivity Showdown by Tim Golden

Tim Golden — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:49:06 +0000

Nice story — good to have some definite stats rather than anecdotals. Still — I misread the headline as “… Productivity SLOWdown” !

Comment on Triangle Django Sprint by MarkB1

MarkB1 — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:48:54 +0000

Details, man, details! Inquiring minds Want to Know…

Comment on Triangle Django Sprint by Paul S.

Paul S. — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:17:29 +0000

Looks like you’re somehow hiding behind Karen. I’m missing too… probably at the beer cooler.

Comment on GHAPACK: A Library for the Generalized Hebbian Algorithm by Bob Carpenter

Bob Carpenter — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:50:46 +0000

Stochastic algorithms, like Gorrell's GHA approach to SVD, are much faster at finding solutions quickly to a few decimal places of accuracy. With fixed floating-point arithmetic, it's all approximate, so it's just a matter of how much accuracy you need from your SVD. Just tweak the convergence parameters. I discuss this in a blog entry on SVMs and logistic regression, but the ideas also apply to SVD. I reimplemented the GHA approach as part of LingPipe. There's an SVD Tutorial which goes over some of the classic demos.

Comment on Agile Scapegoating and People over Process by kurt

kurt — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:04:25 +0000

oops! at least I got the url right.

Comment on Agile Scapegoating and People over Process by James Shore

James Shore — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:36:02 +0000

Hi Kurt,

Actually, it’s James Shore, not Jason Shore.

Jim

Comment on DGXPO 2008: Game Developers’ Conference in the Triangle by Robert Rice

Robert Rice — Sun, 11 May 2008 21:09:40 +0000

Hey Kurt! Make sure you say hi.

See you at the expo

Comment on FogBugz: One Hot Ride by Corey Trager

Corey Trager — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:11:19 +0000

If you like the approach of FogBugz, here comes a shameless plug the free and open source variant, BugTracker.NET, which was heavily inspired by FogBugz. More info at http://ifdefined.com/bugtrackernet.html.

It’s style of presenting all the posts to a bug as a chronological narrative is similar, was well as the email integration, Subversion integration, and the utility for posting screenshots easily.

Main differences would be that it is less polished but more configurable than FogBugz, doesn’t have a Wiki, and no time tracking (yet, but probably later this year) and no scheduling tools.

Comment on Another Amazon EC2 Beowulf Cluster Joins The Grid by Pete Skomoroch

Pete Skomoroch — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:42:18 +0000

Kurt,

Glad you were able to get a cluster running, thanks for writing up your experience. The new 64 bit images have code for few performance benchmarks built in, including HPL. I ran a few latency tests along with the NAS suite, but haven’t run HPL on EC2 yet. The source should be in /home/beowulf/hpl if you want to try it out…

Here are some sample NAS and latency numbers for a two node (16 core) cluster:

http://www.datawrangling.com/media/BPS-AmazonEC2-xlarge-run-1/index.html

-Pete