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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R. He had it up and running on Wednesday. that a lot of people used. Paul Reithmuller was yet another imported Australian engineer who did amazing work.

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Netflix: A Culture of Learning

The Netflix TechBlog

There is broad buy-in across the company, including from the C-Suite, that, whenever possible, results from A/B tests or other causal inference approaches are near-requirements for decision making. our first investments in tooling to support A/B tests came way back in 2001. Early experimentation tooling at Netflix, from 2001.

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