Built to Sell: Legal
Handling legal aspects of your business doesn't need to feel as scary as this. Entrepreneurs are often portrayed as rule-breaking rebels who
Built to Sell: The Blueprints
Imagine your company five to ten years down the road: what does it look like? Do you see a well-run organization operating
Since our Last Episode
The Internet is awash in posts looking back on 2018, but over here at Bommarito Consulting, we decided to give you something
Predicting the Supreme Court
One of the more exciting and public projects we've been working on lately has finally come to light -
Advanced approximate sentence matching in Python
In our last post, we went over a range of options to perform approximate sentence matching in Python, an import
Fuzzy match sentences in Python
Let's imagine you have a sentence of interest. You'd like to find all occurrences of this sentence within a corpus
Isotonic Regressions in scikit-learn
Isotonic regression is a great tool to keep in your repertoire; it's like weighted least-squares with a monotonicity constraint. Why is this so
Benchmarking the new AWS Postgres RDS instances
Postgres has finally come to RDS! Want to know how these instances stack up on a naive pgbench test? Below is a table of simple
Monitoring AWS VPC tunnels
While many Amazon Web Services resources with "state" have CloudWatch sensors available, AWS VPCs and tunnels unfortunately do not. If you're ever in need of
Automating Oracle ORION I/O testing
Oracle ORION is a powerful tool for evaluating realistic OLTP and DSS/DW I/O performance. ORION should be a part of every Oracle professional's toolkit for
AWS EC2 hs1.8xlarge Oracle ORION benchmark results
Benchmarking I/O with Oracle ORION is an important part of planning, baselining, and performance-tuning Oracle environments. I've previously provided ORION results for the hi1.4xlarge SSD-backed
ipython notebook for R: Quickstart for Ubuntu
If you're like me, you love ipython notebook but often write R. RStudio's integrated RMarkdown is nice, but for some contexts like quick demos or
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 the Complexity of the Law: The U.S. Code.