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When you use Prometheus, I presume that you end up modeling everything with increment-only counters.

Do you find yourself in situations where you get information at the end of a transaction that you actually needed for an earlier counter (ie: txn start)?

Using Stochastic Gradient Descent to fit a Universal Scalability Law's parameters to some randomly made up data:
https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/universal-scalability-law/6593670852182016
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I think that's all of it on one page. note the use of an implicit diff operator for everything. you get a more correct answer for second derivative, where d^2x need not be zero, and therefore differentials ARE fractions.

Putin's Witnesses. I used to have to go find this video in a Pakistani site. I watched it a dozen times. It's beyond incredible. It's footage from the inside, that was assembled for another purpose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stTgvqF7zxY

The rise of Vladimir Putin | DW Documentary

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I was at Tysons Corner about 2 hours ago, and police tackled a guy that was running away and ignoring police yelling at him; right in front of me and my daughter. Police told everyone to leave the mall. Dozens of police were already outside. I think this was typical... fist-fight-escalates-to-a-gunfight bullshit. It sounds like one brandished a gun during a fight; and pulled all the police in as a consequence.

I finally got my iPhone mechanical keyboard (braille) to where I can put it into my pocket, leave the case on; and not have a ridiculous dongle on the connector. It's just tiny tweaks to the case and the software now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je87pIP66iY

otg cable

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First cut at an iPhone case mechanical keyboard (braille layout, emulates US qwerty completely):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydb3t7X1jQU

iphone case mechanical keyboard

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I use computer-braille projects to skill up. From fonts, to translation tools, to trying to bake a braille keyboard into an iPhone case. Experimenting with a RPi400 Linux terminal with no screen or mouse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8aDmRcXm3s

Headless braille linux. Rpi400 + orbit reader 20

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I really don't like the coordinate-free explanations; which should be reserved for when you are comfortable with how two multivectors are multiplied. But Geometric Algebra is the most profound idea in geometry and mathematics. Forget about imaginary numbers for a while; and realize that they can be factored into a pair of orthogonal directions in space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60z_hpEAtD8

A Swift Introduction to Geometric Algebra

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I ran into this old image I think I created while uploading files into a system as fast as possible. x axis is the number of files already uploaded. y axis is how long it took to upload and ElasticSearch index.

Transient. Then bi-modal. One mode is very efficient. The other is like the data isn't indexed at all. In spite of usually being really fast; every once in a while, you get something that's terribly slow.