Last night I was surfing Reddit, and came across a post in r/learningpython where the poster was asking for tips on making his Python program more efficient. The program itself was a Rock/Paper/Scissors implementation, and he used a ton of code to do it. The truth is it was probably a homework assignment and theyContinue reading “The Time I Used Quantum Mechanics to solve Rock/Paper/Scissors”
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The Time I Accidentally my Entire NiFi
Obligatory “this didn’t happen yesterday but let’s pretend it did because the faux recency gives my thoughts on the topic more gravity.” So I was working on a project/presentation for a job interview that included building out a decently complex flow in my favorite tool, Apache NiFi (sidebar: can the branding police please impose theirContinue reading “The Time I Accidentally my Entire NiFi”
The Time I Wanted to Rekognize Your Face
It’s no big secret that facial recognition is totally a thing these days, and it’s probably also not a big secret that cloud vendors like AWS have services that can make facial recognition amazingly easy to implement. So let’s go ahead and see just how easy it is, ok? There are plenty of tutorials outContinue reading “The Time I Wanted to Rekognize Your Face”
Writing Avro to HDFS with Apache Nifi
This seems like the sort of thing somebody would want to do. I mean, I wanted to do it. I had some JSON messages and wanted to write them to HDFS as Avro to query them in Hive. The thing is it’s not exactly obvious how one might do such a thing in nifi. OrContinue reading “Writing Avro to HDFS with Apache Nifi”
Electric Boogaloo 