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@hypnoglow
hypnoglow / aliases.sh
Created September 26, 2023 19:08
Bash Function to extract any archive. Add this to your .bashrc / .zshrc
ex() {
if [ -z "$1" ] ; then
echo >&2 'File not specified'
return 1
fi
if [ ! -f "$1" ] ; then
echo >&2 "'$1' is not a valid file"
return 1
fi
@jaydenseric
jaydenseric / ffmpeg-web-video-guide.md
Last active November 12, 2024 21:24
A quick guide to using FFmpeg to create cross-device web videos.

Video conversion with FFmpeg

Install

On mac:

  1. Download the latest release.
  2. Extract the binary and place it in /usr/local/bin.

Command basics

@debasishg
debasishg / gist:8172796
Last active November 11, 2024 07:10
A collection of links for streaming algorithms and data structures

General Background and Overview

  1. Probabilistic Data Structures for Web Analytics and Data Mining : A great overview of the space of probabilistic data structures and how they are used in approximation algorithm implementation.
  2. Models and Issues in Data Stream Systems
  3. Philippe Flajolet’s contribution to streaming algorithms : A presentation by Jérémie Lumbroso that visits some of the hostorical perspectives and how it all began with Flajolet
  4. Approximate Frequency Counts over Data Streams by Gurmeet Singh Manku & Rajeev Motwani : One of the early papers on the subject.
  5. [Methods for Finding Frequent Items in Data Streams](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.187.9800&rep=rep1&t
@mrflip
mrflip / 20130416-todo.md
Last active January 21, 2024 21:06
Elasticsearch Tuning Plan

Next Steps

  • Measure time spend on index, flush, refresh, merge, query, etc. (TD - done)
  • Take hot threads snapshots under read+write, read-only, write-only (TD - done)
  • Adjust refresh time to 10s (from 1s) and see how load changes (TD)
  • Measure time of a rolling restart doing disable_flush and disable_recovery (TD)
  • Specify routing on query -- make it choose same node for each shard each time (MD)
  • GC new generation size (TD)
  • Warmers
  • measure before/after of client query time with and without warmers (MD)
@dergachev
dergachev / GIF-Screencast-OSX.md
Last active November 5, 2024 18:44
OS X Screencast to animated GIF

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Screencapture GIF

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application: