@forloop

Software Engineer with keen interest in Search / Information Retrieval. BMX/MTB, Climbing, Photography, Guitars

 Brisbane, Australia
forloop.co.uk/blog
Joined April 2007
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Friends, please help #SaveKarenGordon, my much-loved sister whose life is at risk due to failures by the #NHS to treat her and adapt to her underlying condition. We're desperate! Please help us by signing this petition and sharing it as widely as possible. chng.it/MtYcbN4s

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Save Karen Gordon from Dying of Malnutrition and Dehydration due to NHS Failings.

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Anyone in Houston TX up for hosting a show? If so get in touch here!: rockyvotolato.com/living-roo…
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The DDD Brisbane CFP is now open! 🎉✍️🎤 ✍️ sessionize.com/ddd-brisbane-… ✍️ Get submitting, everyone!
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Are you learning Rust? Are you having trouble with anything? Do you have any questions?
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@elastic10 Feb 2022
Elastic 8.0 is here! This major release ushers in a new era of speed, scale, relevance, and simplicity with new capabilities like approximate nearest neighbor search, native NLP, and simplified security. Learn more → go.es.io/3Jh088m

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Elasticsearch's upgrade to Lucene 9 reduced disk usage of the index of the `message` field (StardardAnalyzer, indexOptions=DOCS) by almost 15% (and overall ~3.5%) on the applications logs dataset we use for nightly benchmarks thanks to the move from FOR to PFOR for postings.
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I'm the author of the best-selling book System Design Interview-An Insider’s Guide. 11 days ago, two fraudsters hijacked the "Buy Now" button on Amazon, fulfilling all orders with a different book. I'm helpless to do anything. A sad story on self-publishing: a thread.
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A new year, perhaps a new job? We are looking for a Developer Advocate (DA) for @jetbrains_space! 🧵 #devrel
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@elastic29 Sep 2021
For the second year in a row, we've been named the @Fairygodboss Best Tech Company For Women! We're so honored to receive this recognition and proud to be an employer working toward gender equality. Learn more → go.es.io/39QRZrq #LifeAtElastic #BestCompanyForWomen
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We're hiring a senior software engineer to join our team building @datalust_seq in Brisbane, Australia (part in-person/part remote); #dotnet, #rustlang, #typescript - drop me a line if you're interested in more info😁
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Episode 2: It's time to dig into the notion of ClassID and type with the .NET Profiling APIs - chnasarre.medium.com/dealing…

Dealing with Modules, Assemblies and Types with CLR Profiling APIs

This episode explains how to get the type name and generic parameters hidden behind a ClassID with the .NET Profiling API

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Dear twitter: Is there a NLP library for #dotnet core, I'm specifically looking for a Stemming, POS Tagging and NER?
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Deal of the Day, Aug 4: Elasticsearch in Action, Second Edition and select titles are on sale today. Check them out: mng.bz/WrEx ##search #elasticsearch #DL #deeplearning4j #apachelucene #relevance #apachesolr #kafkastreams #apachekafka #bigdata #datastreaming
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@elastic7 Jul 2021
Keep your business private with Azure Private Link, now generally available. Private Link provides connectivity from your Azure virtual network to your Elastic deployment as well as Azure services. go.es.io/3e7FYAL
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@elastic21 Jun 2021
Join us weekly on Tuesdays on the Elastic Community YouTube channel for a livestreamed work-with-me and #AMA session. Topics vary each week, and tomorrow's session will be on .NET! Bring your questions and RSVP → go.es.io/3xcGUut
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Years after we climbed the Dawn Wall, Tommy let it slip that on our first day climbing together his goal was to break my spirit. He didn't succeed, but along the way, El Cap nearly would. A thread about embracing reinvention and hardship.
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We just released the Rust client for Elasticsearch 7.11! 🦀 crates.io/crates/elasticsear…
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We've released 7.11.1 of NEST and Elasticsearch․NET, the #elasticsearch 7.x #dotnet clients: nuget.org/packages/NEST/7.11…. Includes a bug fix (since 7.10.1) in our diagnostics code. Recommended upgrade if you're listening to Activity/DiagnosticSource, using tracing or our APM agent.
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Thanks to @zacharymorn, #Lucene boolean queries now also use block-max WAND when a minimum number of matching SHOULD clauses is required. github.com/apache/lucene-sol…

LUCENE-9346: Support minimumNumberShouldMatch in WANDScorer by zacharymorn · Pull Request #2141 ·...

Description Support minimumNumberShouldMatch in WANDScorer Currently has a few nocommit to keep track of questions Solution Similar to MinShouldMatchSumScorer, the logic here keeps track of number ...

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@elastic3 Dec 2020
If you want to analyze a GB+ CSV file, you're going to need the right tools. Learn how the @JetBrains #DotNet advocacy team used #Elasticsearch, NEST and #Kibana to handle a comma-delimited giant. go.es.io/33Jjxwe
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