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Book Arnon for 30 minutes
If: Then I have an offer for you! For the next couple of months I’m offering a free 30-minute session where I will help you analyse your product’s value metrics, and guide you to come up with a monetization strategy that works for you and your customers. In the session I can help you: If…
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Printing to a POS-5890K thermal printer from a Raspberry Pi
For a small project, I wanted to print some graphic receipts from a Raspberry Pi. I bought the cheapest one I could find on Amazon, the POS-5890K. (I paid €43 on Amazon.de). It’s not a very high quality device, but the price was hard to argue with. However, printing to it was a bit more…
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Running a company is hard. Running a modern, inclusive, sustainable, and authentic company is much harder. One of the reasons I joined Pleo, was because it was all of those things. It was a great breath of fresh air. But not all companies are like that. All is not lost though, because companies can and…
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Using Tesla K80 cards, or AWS P2 instances? The end is near
A bit under the radar, NVIDIA’s CUDA 11 has dropped support for cards using sm_30 and sm_32. Furthermore, cards using sm_35, sm_37 and sm_50 have been deprecated, and their support will be removed in future versions of CUDA. These cards include the NVIDIA Tesla K40, Tesla K80, and Tesla M60 cards. Several of the companies…
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2020 is here! Why are we still using 1980s tech?
Before COVID-19 hit in full force, I went to Warsaw for the Big Data Tech show to give a short 15 minute talk. For your viewing pleasure, here it is! Slides are available on SlideShare It's 2020 – Why are we still using 1980s technology? from Arnon Shimoni
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Your DBMS is slow. What do you do?
I first used SQL for an online blogging platform I was building in Perl back in 1999. Moving from a flat-file to MySQL was truly a lifechanging experience. The (then) four-year-old DBMS had a nice little set of features and optimizations that I could easily apply and get a decent performance boost. Call me a…
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Speaking at Data Innovation Summit and Big Data Warsaw
I’m kicking off 2020 by attending and speaking at both Data Innovation Summit and Big Data Warsaw. My talk titles are roughly around the idea of “It’s 2020 – why are we still using 1980’s tech?“ Big Data Warsaw is a tightly packed, quick-pace one-day event on February 27th in Warsaw, Poland Data Innovation Summit…
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Another month, two more trade-shows under my belt
June is usually a fairly quiet month. However, this June I participated in two trade-shows. BDA Frankfurt by Whitehall Media was the first. It’s a very focused, one-day event that brings together data experts from Germany, Italy, France, the UK, Austria, Switzerland, and more. I got the opportunity to speak at this event about the…
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I spoke at Data Innovation Stockholm
Despite living close by in Copenhagen, I mostly attend trade shows and expos in the US and far east. When I was given the opportunity to speak at Data Innovation Stockholm, I was excited because I’ve never had a chance to try out my content on a mostly European audience. The show spanned two days…
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Quickstart – Installing nvidia docker in one guide
I have been frustrated when trying to install nvidia-docker, because the guides are split over several documents. NVIDIA’s own documents tell you to go install Docker first, but don’t tell you how. For Ubuntu 16 and 18, here are all the steps you need, one by one: