Author Archives: Nick Bernstein
Would you participate in this kind of contest?
I’m thinking, along w/ some people I’m working on a start-up with, of running a contest to help up “train” the back end “artificial intelligence engine” which is used in our software. Here’s the gist: you would log-in to a … Continue reading
Making me reach a bit
I wrote a little while back about some of the things my startup has gotten me to work on, but it occurred to me today, after I being grumpy and frustrated for a good chunk of the day – the … Continue reading
Cool things I’ve gotten to play with at my startup
For the last year or so I’ve been working on a tech startup with some friends. In doing so, I’ve gotten to work with some pretty cool stuff, and I thought I’d make a list of some of them. Continue reading
A letter to my congresswoman
I thought I would put up a letter I recently wrote to my congresswoman, Maxine Waters, regarding the recent information that has come to light about torture under the Bush administration. I am writing you today in regards to the … Continue reading
Playing with Bayes
For the last day or so I’ve been playing with moving over my simple word-count-analysis of blogs to actually creating a database with manually ranked training data and extrapolating from that. There were some hiccups and I’ve still got to go back and replace a lot of code, but it’s effectively categorizing new blog entries based on previous rankings. YAY! Continue reading
Dear Bestbuy, why don’t you value me as a customer?
On my birthday, I drove from one store to another in the boston area trying to find a dell mini 9 netbook. I eventually did, the last one they had, which was an open box return, mid wipe. I purchased … Continue reading
An alternative approach to snaprestore rollbacks for virus outbreaks
overview Netapp’s snap restore product is a fantastic tool in a storage admin’s arsenal. It works well. It’s fast, and it doesn’t need to “restore” data, it just makes a previous snapshot the active file system. That said, I keep … Continue reading
Teachin’ ain’t easy.
I am very, very jet lagged. I’m not entirely sure what it is, but there’s something that knocks you on your ass when you travel in the middle of the week. I think it’s that everyone’s a *little* tired on … Continue reading
Heading to Ft. Lauderdale
I’m blatantly ignoring the fact that I need to get up early tomorrow to fly to Ft. Lauderdale, and I’m not packed. I’m looking forward to it. Depending on how busy I am, there’s a chance I may get to … Continue reading