Amédée d'Aboville

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Some Data Processing

March 26, 2015 · 8 minute read · Tags: curl , etl , football , ruby , unix

This post is from my old blog. It’s about a weekend project where I downloaded a bunch of football match data and did some light analysis of it. I had further plans to use it for “Machine Learning” and try my hand at a prediction engine, but I didn’t get that far. Sadly, I couldn’t get the pictures back. It’s a great example of where I was 4 years ago and reminds me of the progress I’ve made.
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Indistinguishable From Magic Has to Die

November 10, 2014 · 4 minute read · Tags: Emerson , magic , society

It’s inaccurate and immoral to think of our hacks as magical.
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Why Hackers Should Study Communications

October 22, 2014 · 4 minute read · Tags: hackers , McLuhan , media , systems

We have advanced models of tech, we need advanced models of society to match.
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January 1, 0001 · 8 minute read

Is the full-stack developer going away with the rise of the super Paas? Outline: Websites are continuing to be commoditized. Often they stop being commoditized when the underlying tech can do a lot more for what we care about (switch to react, get an easier to build website) I list the tech trends for the last 10 years that have made us switch tech and kept us employed Or if the requirements change (eg adding mobile) I list the requirements that have changed in the last 10 years In the last 5 years the growth&change has slowed The tech that might change the future but hasn’t.
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