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It's in the works :)

Ah! We could, but StatsD provides support for more complex metrics like aggregated sums over time. Not something that lends itself easily to a discrete datapoint.

It is. But we use multiprocessing, which is basically the same API. Still, you can't beat the awesome Python stats libraries: Numpy, SciPy, Statsmodels, Pandas..

Author here. Accuracy is okay - we err on the side of noise, but it does routinely pick up anomalies. It doesn't currently account for seasonal trends, though.

We aim for 100% CPU consumption. Analyzing is very CPU intensive process, and there are two parts in particular that are expensive: decoding the Redis string from MessagePack to Python, and running the algorithms.

As for the algorithm inefficiencies, pull requests encouraged :)

Rewriting it in Go is a plan for a rainy weekend :) The problem with Go is that it doesn't have as great statistics support as Python does.

I do not support calling it a "war"

Believe it's a month long.

This a great overview - nicely done! It would have been nice to also mention how other implementations of Python like Jython that _don't_ have the GIL, and how they managed to do it.

As for why it hasn't been solved yet...the api for threads and processes is pretty much identical. Since you're just as well off using a process in the majority of cases, that's we we go with.

We're working on it here at Etsy :)

It'll be released in a week or two. In the meantime, I've been speaking about it: http://devslovebacon.com/conferences/bacon-2013/talks/bring-...

Not that there is a "right" or "wrong" answer if you want to invoke that. There is no "winning" at evolution.

The only reason I'm not doing that is because I'm anchored by Python's stats libraries.

Brooklyn here.

..let's just say that if the author ever comes to Brooklyn, he will not leave sober. This is incredible.

> We have a Hollywood sponsored President

wat

This is very awesome, congrats Jesse and team!

Eh, a lot of it was kind of crappy stoner-speak and cosmic stipulations. You're better off reading Seneca - "Letters from a Stoic" is a good place to start.

Please don't criticize what he's built before you even barely understand it.

This validates most of what Ryan Holiday says in "Trust Me, I'm Lying." Was wondering what extent his account of the media is actually true.

This is the most disgusting, gratuitous display of misogyny I have ever seen.

"The most important information", but you don't show points? Sorry, but this is unusable.

Agreed! The Stanford Encyclopedia is really awesome - helped so much with my undergrad philosophy degree. Somehow it manages to be topical and in-depth at the same time.

It matters so you can win programming competitions?

I agree in theory, but PG posted some pretty damning stuff about the reach of PR in the news, and I want to know how far that reach goes down. In this article, the author specifically says, "yo, you shouldn't airbnb."

That's a bit more than just reporting the facts.

Was this paid for by hotel interests? I'm really trying to understand the depth of PR in the news.

If you aren't learning programming, you might as well study art history.

Does anyone actually read and care about this inane bullshit?

Eh...excuse me?

A bit more than technically true. The Dead Sea is an Israeli icon...

Excellent hack!

"there’s precious little being written outside K-pop circles about his other music, of which there’s a decade’s worth."

Why is what's being written about you what matters? These blogs seem to have forgotten that music blogs do not define culture - music defines culture (and same for tech).

Badass!

Unless that URL is deceiving, and that's not actually the URL for the 404 page - just a URL that doesn't exist that looks like it could be the URL for the 404 page.

We act like psychology was ever a legitimate science in the first place...