Celebrating 19 Years of Blogging
Nineteen years ago today, I created my first blog post on the technology blog here. Strictly speaking, I had a blog on the site earlier, but that was mostly focused on my travels across Europe when I lived in Germany. In 2004, I decided to manage my own server and set up a Windows Server […]
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Celebrating the 7000th Blog Post!
This post right here marks a special milestone: the 7000th post since ClearDB deleted 13 years of my blog posts, a tale told in this very special episode of Data Driven. I post this to remind myself of the power of picking yourself up again. Losing 13 years of writing across 5575 was hard, but […]
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Happy 25th Birthday Frank’s World
On a chilly evening in October 1995, I dialed in to my local ISP (Internet Service Provider), heard the screeching of the modem, and then launched an FTP client to upload the HTML, JPG, and GIF files from my Macintosh IIsi to create “Frank’s World.” Before the Launch It had been a long time coming, […]
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Data Driven Celebrates 100,000 Downloads
In this Data Point, we celebrate a huge milestone in front of a very important donut shop. Thank you for being our loyal fans! Press the play button below to listen here or visit the show page at DataDriven.tv.
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Quantum Supremacy Controversy
TechLinked discusses Google’s recent quantum supremacy announcement and the controversy around it.
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Happy 24th Birthday, Frank’s World!
On October 13, 1995, I uploaded a few HTML, GIF, and JPG files up to the 1.4 MB space onto a web server my ISP gave me for free. This bundle of files was the very first incarnation of Frank’s World. Originally, it was an online version of the Weekly World News. Looking at the […]
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Celebrating 2 Years of Data Driven
In this Data Point, Frank marks the two year anniversary of Data Driven‘s launch and talks about the future. Press the play button below to listen here or visit the show page at DataDriven.tv
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Apache Spark Turns 10
As Apache Spark is 10 years old. This article in Analytics India Magazine explores what led to Spark’s widespread adoption and what will keep it going into the future. Dubbed as the official “in-memory replacement for MapReduce”, the disk-based computational engine is at the heart of early Hadoop clusters. Why Spark took off was because […]
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Celebrating One Year of Data Driven
In this first anniversary episode of Data Driven, Frank and Andy celebrate one year of podcasting, the origins of “Data Points,” how the show got started, and where it may be headed. Press the play button below to listen here or visit the show page at DataDriven.tv And watch this video I created to celebrate […]
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Data Driven Podcast Reaches 50k Downloads in Under a Year
Frank and Andy are in the same place for the first time in a while and they have a special announcement: the show has reached 50,000 downloads in just under one year. Thank you for supporting the show. You rock! Press the play button below to listen here or visit the show page at DataDriven.tv […]
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