Isotonic regression is a great tool to keep in your repertoire; it’s like weighted least-squ...
Featured in Wired: Measuring the Complexity of the Law
Thanks to Sam Arbesman (@arbesman) for featuring Dan and my paper, Measuring the Complexity of the L...
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Is there tax in the cloud?
Do you contract for IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS services like Amazon Web Services or SalesForce? Â Do you pr...
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Benchmarking the new AWS Postgres RDS instances
Postgres has finally come to RDS! Â Want to know how these instances stack up on a naive pgbench tes...
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Monitoring AWS VPC tunnels
While many Amazon Web Services resources with “state” have CloudWatch sensors available,...
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Automating Oracle ORION I/O testing
Oracle ORION is a powerful tool for evaluating realistic OLTP and DSS/DW I/O performance. Â ORION sh...
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AWS EC2 hs1.8xlarge Oracle ORION benchmark results
Benchmarking I/O with Oracle ORION is an important part of planning, baselining, and performance-tun...
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ipython notebook for R: Quickstart for Ubuntu
If you’re like me, you love ipython notebook but often write R. Â RStudio’s integrated R...
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Is the Tax Code the longest Title?
  Last week, I shared that Dan Katz and I had finally published a draft of our paper, Measuring t...
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Measuring the Complexity of the Law: The U.S. Code
 Four years ago, Dan Katz and I began working on a project to measure the complexity of the law. Â...
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