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2024 ¹

October ¹

Privacy and Security in the Age of Generative AI

October 30, 2024 · 3 min · 531 words · Benjamin Bengfort

2023 ³

November ¹

Smart Global Replication Using Reinforcement Learning

November 7, 2023 · 1 min · 178 words · Benjamin Bengfort

August ¹

DIY Consensus: Crafting Your Own Distributed Code (with Benjamin Bengfort)

August 30, 2023 · 2 min · 227 words · Benjamin Bengfort

May ¹

Faster Protocol Buffer Serialization

May 3, 2023 · 4 min · 642 words · Benjamin Bengfort

2022 ¹

November ¹

Atomic vs Mutex

November 26, 2022 · 2 min · 280 words · Benjamin Bengfort

2021 ⁴

March ¹

Nonlinear Workflow for Planning Software Projects

March 14, 2021 · 4 min · 680 words · Benjamin Bengfort

February ¹

Go Closures & Interfaces

February 23, 2021 · 18 min · 3688 words · Benjamin Bengfort

January ²

New Hugo Theme

January 24, 2021 · 3 min · 626 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Documenting a gRPC API with OpenAPI

January 21, 2021 · 6 min · 1197 words · Benjamin Bengfort

2020 ⁶

December ¹

Self Signed CA

December 30, 2020 · 1 min · 178 words · Benjamin Bengfort

November ¹

OS X Cleanup

November 24, 2020 · 3 min · 480 words · Benjamin Bengfort

October ¹

Managing Multi-Errors in Go

October 22, 2020 · 4 min · 790 words · Benjamin Bengfort

August ¹

Writing JSON into a Zip file with Python

August 20, 2020 · 4 min · 700 words · Benjamin Bengfort

July ²

Read mprofile Output into Pandas

July 27, 2020 · 2 min · 253 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Basic Python Profiling

July 14, 2020 · 2 min · 370 words · Benjamin Bengfort

2019 ³

October ¹

Launching a JupyterHub Instance

October 9, 2019 · 8 min · 1644 words · Benjamin Bengfort

February ¹

Mount an EBS volume

February 5, 2019 · 2 min · 323 words · Benjamin Bengfort

January ¹

Visual Diagnostics for More Effective Machine Learning

January 10, 2019 · 1 min · 63 words · Benjamin Bengfort

2018 ¹⁴

September ⁴

Blast Throughput

September 26, 2018 · 3 min · 569 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Go Testing Notes

September 22, 2018 · 6 min · 1150 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Streaming Remote Throughput

September 11, 2018 · 3 min · 584 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Future Date Script

September 5, 2018 · 1 min · 104 words · Benjamin Bengfort

August ²

Aggregating Reads from a Go Channel

August 25, 2018 · 3 min · 482 words · Benjamin Bengfort

The Actor Model

August 3, 2018 · 9 min · 1784 words · Benjamin Bengfort

June ²

Syntax Parsing with CoreNLP and NLTK

June 22, 2018 · 4 min · 700 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Understanding Machine Learning Through Visualizations with Benjamin Bengfort and Rebecca Bilbro - Episode 166

June 17, 2018 · 1 min · 40 words · Benjamin Bengfort

May ¹

Continuing Outer Loops with for/else

May 17, 2018 · 3 min · 500 words · Benjamin Bengfort

March ¹

Predicted Class Balance

March 8, 2018 · 2 min · 216 words · Benjamin Bengfort

February ²

Class Balance Prediction Distribution

February 28, 2018 · 2 min · 215 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Synchronization in Write Throughput

February 13, 2018 · 5 min · 882 words · Benjamin Bengfort

January ²

Thread and Non-Thread Safe Go Set

January 26, 2018 · 2 min · 403 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Git-Style File Editing in CLI

January 6, 2018 · 3 min · 549 words · Benjamin Bengfort

2017 ³⁹

December ¹

Transaction Handling with Psycopg2

December 6, 2017 · 18 min · 3678 words · Benjamin Bengfort

September ³

Lock Diagnostics in Go

September 28, 2017 · 4 min · 765 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Lock Queuing in Go

September 8, 2017 · 7 min · 1296 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Messaging Throughput gRPC vs. ZMQ

September 4, 2017 · 3 min · 429 words · Benjamin Bengfort

August ³

Online Distribution

August 28, 2017 · 3 min · 480 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Rapid FS Walks with ErrGroup

August 18, 2017 · 6 min · 1206 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Buffered Write Performance

August 3, 2017 · 5 min · 1065 words · Benjamin Bengfort

July ⁶

Event Dispatcher in Go

July 21, 2017 · 3 min · 468 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Lazy Pirate Client

July 14, 2017 · 2 min · 331 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Simple ZMQ Message Passing

July 13, 2017 · 2 min · 355 words · Benjamin Bengfort

PID File Management

July 11, 2017 · 3 min · 432 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Public IP Address Discovery

July 9, 2017 · 2 min · 350 words · Benjamin Bengfort

On the Tracks with Rails

July 6, 2017 · 9 min · 1899 words · Benjamin Bengfort

June ⁴

Visual Pipelines for Text Analysis

June 24, 2017 · 1 min · 66 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Concurrent Subprocesses and Fabric

June 14, 2017 · 6 min · 1198 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Appending Results to a File

June 12, 2017 · 2 min · 251 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Compression Benchmarks

June 7, 2017 · 4 min · 841 words · Benjamin Bengfort

May ³

Decorating Nose Tests

May 22, 2017 · 1 min · 184 words · Benjamin Bengfort

In Process Cacheing

May 17, 2017 · 5 min · 877 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Unique Values in Python: A Benchmark

May 2, 2017 · 5 min · 963 words · Benjamin Bengfort

April ³

Measuring Throughput

April 28, 2017 · 5 min · 965 words · Benjamin Bengfort

OAuth Tokens on the Command Line

April 20, 2017 · 4 min · 719 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Gmail Notifications with Python

April 17, 2017 · 2 min · 398 words · Benjamin Bengfort

March ⁷

A Benchmark of Grumpy Transpiling

March 23, 2017 · 7 min · 1489 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Sanely gRPC Dial a Remote

March 21, 2017 · 3 min · 442 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Contributing a Multiprocess Memory Profiler

March 20, 2017 · 7 min · 1409 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Pseudo Merkle Tree

March 16, 2017 · 3 min · 485 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Using Select in Go

March 8, 2017 · 2 min · 386 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Benchmarking Secure gRPC

March 5, 2017 · 1 min · 162 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Secure gRPC with TLS/SSL

March 3, 2017 · 10 min · 2128 words · Benjamin Bengfort

February ³

Synchronizing Structs for Safe Concurrency in Go

February 21, 2017 · 4 min · 852 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Fixed vs. Variable Length Chunking

February 8, 2017 · 3 min · 443 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Extracting a TOC from Markup

February 5, 2017 · 2 min · 358 words · Benjamin Bengfort

January ⁶

In-Memory File System with FUSE

January 30, 2017 · 5 min · 1008 words · Benjamin Bengfort

FUSE Calls on Go Writes

January 26, 2017 · 5 min · 921 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Error Descriptions for System Calls

January 23, 2017 · 1 min · 121 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Run Until Error with Go Channels

January 19, 2017 · 1 min · 206 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Generic JSON Serialization with Go

January 18, 2017 · 1 min · 209 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Resolving Matplotlib Colors

January 17, 2017 · 5 min · 1054 words · Benjamin Bengfort

2016 ⁵¹

December ³

Benchmarking Readline Iterators

December 23, 2016 · 2 min · 355 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Yielding Functions for Iteration in Go

December 22, 2016 · 3 min · 573 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Data Product Architectures: O’Reilly Webinar

December 7, 2016 · 1 min · 175 words · Benjamin Bengfort

November ³

Exception Handling

November 21, 2016 · 10 min · 2105 words · Benjamin Bengfort

SVG Vertex with a Timer

November 4, 2016 · 6 min · 1178 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Message Latency: Ping vs. gRPC

November 2, 2016 · 5 min · 987 words · Benjamin Bengfort

October ²

Computing Reading Speed

October 28, 2016 · 4 min · 659 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Dynamics in Graph Analysis Adding Time as a Structure for Visual and Statistical Insight

October 24, 2016 · 2 min · 311 words · Benjamin Bengfort

September ³

Modifying an Image’s Aspect Ratio

September 13, 2016 · 2 min · 389 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Serializing GraphML

September 9, 2016 · 1 min · 130 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Parallel Enqueue and Workers

September 7, 2016 · 3 min · 602 words · Benjamin Bengfort

August ²

Parallel NLP Preprocessing

August 12, 2016 · 3 min · 615 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Pretty Print Directories

August 1, 2016 · 2 min · 387 words · Benjamin Bengfort

July ⁴

Interview - Ben Bengfort of District Data Labs

July 28, 2016 · 1 min · 20 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Visualizing the Model Selection Process

July 23, 2016 · 1 min · 184 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Data Product Architectures: Seattle Data Day

July 21, 2016 · 1 min · 186 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Color Map Utility

July 15, 2016 · 3 min · 502 words · Benjamin Bengfort

June ³

Visualizing Normal Distributions

June 27, 2016 · 2 min · 370 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Background Work with Goroutines on a Timer

June 26, 2016 · 2 min · 256 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Converting NetworkX to Graph-Tool

June 23, 2016 · 3 min · 576 words · Benjamin Bengfort

May ⁴

Natural Language Processing with NLTK and Gensim

May 30, 2016 · 2 min · 252 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Text Classification with NLTK and Scikit-Learn

May 19, 2016 · 11 min · 2208 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Creating a Microservice in Go

May 11, 2016 · 6 min · 1139 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Extracting Diffs from Git with Python

May 6, 2016 · 2 min · 287 words · Benjamin Bengfort

April ⁷

Visualizing Distributed Systems

April 26, 2016 · 5 min · 1020 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Scikit-Learn Data Management: Bunches

April 19, 2016 · 5 min · 1020 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Lessons in Discrete Event Simulation

April 15, 2016 · 4 min · 823 words · Benjamin Bengfort

NLTK Corpus Reader for Extracted Corpus

April 11, 2016 · 6 min · 1081 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Extracting the DDL Blog Corpus

April 10, 2016 · 2 min · 347 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Dispatching Types to Handler Methods

April 5, 2016 · 2 min · 426 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Class Variables

April 4, 2016 · 3 min · 446 words · Benjamin Bengfort

March ⁴

Simple Password Generation

March 30, 2016 · 5 min · 973 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Visualizing Pi with matplotlib

March 14, 2016 · 2 min · 409 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Adding a Git Commit to Header Comments

March 8, 2016 · 3 min · 577 words · Benjamin Bengfort

The Bengfort Toolkit

March 7, 2016 · 3 min · 513 words · Benjamin Bengfort

February ⁵

Anonymizing User Profile Data with Faker

February 25, 2016 · 21 min · 4466 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Implementing the Observer Pattern with an Event System

February 16, 2016 · 3 min · 621 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Running on Schedule

February 10, 2016 · 10 min · 2079 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Iterators and Generators

February 5, 2016 · 6 min · 1104 words · Benjamin Bengfort

On Interval Calls with Threading

February 2, 2016 · 3 min · 607 words · Benjamin Bengfort

January ¹¹

Timeline Visualization with Matplotlib

January 28, 2016 · 2 min · 245 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Building a Console Utility with Commis

January 23, 2016 · 9 min · 1753 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Freezing Package Requirements

January 21, 2016 · 3 min · 465 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Packaging Python Libraries with PyPI

January 20, 2016 · 8 min · 1599 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Better JSON Encoding

January 19, 2016 · 2 min · 363 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Simple SQL Query Wrapper

January 18, 2016 · 4 min · 647 words · Benjamin Bengfort

The codetime and clock Commands

January 12, 2016 · 1 min · 202 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Wrapping the Logging Module

January 11, 2016 · 2 min · 341 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Simple CLI Script with Argparse

January 10, 2016 · 1 min · 157 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Basic Python Project Files

January 9, 2016 · 3 min · 590 words · Benjamin Bengfort

Frequently Copied and Pasted

January 8, 2016 · 2 min · 384 words · Benjamin Bengfort

2015 ¹

December ¹

One Big Gift Selection Algorithm

December 25, 2015 · 2 min · 273 words · Benjamin Bengfort

2013 ¹

November ¹

Natural Language Processing and Hadoop

November 2, 2013 · 1 min · 25 words · Benjamin Bengfort

2012 ¹

December ¹

Unbound Concepts: Columbia TechBreakfast Dec. 2012

December 12, 2012 · 1 min · 15 words · Benjamin Bengfort

2024 1

October 1

Privacy and Security in the Age of Generative AI

2023 3

November 1

Smart Global Replication Using Reinforcement Learning

August 1

DIY Consensus: Crafting Your Own Distributed Code (with Benjamin Bengfort)

May 1

Faster Protocol Buffer Serialization

2022 1

November 1

Atomic vs Mutex

2021 4

March 1

Nonlinear Workflow for Planning Software Projects

February 1

Go Closures & Interfaces

January 2

New Hugo Theme

Documenting a gRPC API with OpenAPI

2020 6

December 1

Self Signed CA

November 1

OS X Cleanup

October 1

Managing Multi-Errors in Go

August 1

Writing JSON into a Zip file with Python

July 2

Read mprofile Output into Pandas

Basic Python Profiling

2019 3

October 1

Launching a JupyterHub Instance

February 1

Mount an EBS volume

January 1

Visual Diagnostics for More Effective Machine Learning

2018 14

September 4

Blast Throughput

Go Testing Notes

Streaming Remote Throughput

Future Date Script

August 2

Aggregating Reads from a Go Channel

The Actor Model

June 2

Syntax Parsing with CoreNLP and NLTK

Understanding Machine Learning Through Visualizations with Benjamin Bengfort and Rebecca Bilbro - Episode 166

May 1

Continuing Outer Loops with for/else

March 1

Predicted Class Balance

February 2

Class Balance Prediction Distribution

Synchronization in Write Throughput

January 2

Thread and Non-Thread Safe Go Set

Git-Style File Editing in CLI

2017 39

December 1

Transaction Handling with Psycopg2

September 3

Lock Diagnostics in Go

Lock Queuing in Go

Messaging Throughput gRPC vs. ZMQ

August 3

Online Distribution

Rapid FS Walks with ErrGroup

Buffered Write Performance

July 6

Event Dispatcher in Go

Lazy Pirate Client

Simple ZMQ Message Passing

PID File Management

Public IP Address Discovery

On the Tracks with Rails

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