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greg.blog
Personal blog · gibrown.wordpress.comdataprogramming
greg.blog is a personal blog at gibrown.wordpress.com about data and programming. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for its Elasticsearch notes, including cluster configuration and performance tips, and for a post on Unix command-line tools and n-grams for natural language processing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
NLP, Search, and Data
What Hacker News says?
There are a lot of features thoughtfully combined that make ES great. Top of my list would be: 1. It handles human written language. Any language. The same technology that let's it handle strings written in human language provides a lot of flexibility in handling string in other applications. Particular when handling logs. 2. Non-string data it also handles very fast and cleanly (numbers, dates, geo). 3. Lucene has…
Comment linking /2014/01/09/scaling-elasticsearch-part-1-overview/
on “Elasticsearch 1.0.0 released”Submitted Scaling Elasticsearch Part 3: Queries as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAnother shameless plug: http://gibrown.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/unix-bi-grams-tri-gr... More about Natural Language Processing.
Comment linking /2013/01/26/unix-bi-grams-tri-grams-and-topic-modeling/
on “Command-line tools for data science”Submitted Elasticsearch, Open Source, and the Future as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHere is another set of notes which helped me improve my cluster configuration [0]. [0] http://gibrown.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/elasticsearch-five-t...
Comment linking /2013/01/24/elasticsearch-five-things-i-was-doing-wrong/
on “Tips on Configuring Elasticsearch for High Performance”