Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

More common is to use a one-way hashing algorithm to map the data to be accessed to one of the shards that store it. Theres no complex algorithm to go wrong, just a simple lookup table. Of course, you could use URL-based sharding to "wrap" a CH algorithm (or any hashing scheme you wanted). Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

Those of us with a computer science background call it the hill-climbing algorithm. Those of us with a computer science background call it the hill-climbing algorithm. You can always tell who has a math background in a startup, because they call this the local maximum problem. Expo SF (May. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Youll need bundles, promotions, category and segment managers, and algorithms for upsell, cross-sell, and conversion optimization. If you have a non-trivial amount of goods for people to buy, they are going to have to find ways to sort through them to find the ones they want. In other words, a marketing department. Expo SF (May.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 9, 2012

The web demands immense agility and flexibility from every company. You can launch the product to a selected group of opted-in customers (or only to people in New York). Having one-trick ponies can limit your capacity to think smart and move fast. You can only show the redesign to 1% of the site traffic.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Build a world-class technology platform, with patent-pending algorithms and the ability to scale to millions of simultaneous users. This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. Labels: agile , customer development 5comments: William Pietri said. Insist on high levels of usability, UI design, and polish.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

These days, successful programming is as much about processing data as creating algorithms. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

And we worked with their core microscopy team and built a new algorithm with them that we co-published, that basically allowed them to get orders of magnitude higher resolution from their existing equipment, allowing them to map the connectome of a brain and how it changes over time in ways that have never been done before.

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