Author Archives: Grease Monkey

About Grease Monkey

Computer nerd since the 80's. Data nerd since the 90's. Generic nerd for a lifetime.

AI Bias Is Real, and It Still Requires Expert Humans to Monitor and Correct

Posted on May 16, 2025 by Grease Monkey

As someone who’s been in IT for over 25 years—starting with Linux in 1999, diving into Hadoop, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms, and leading teams since 2001—I’ve seen technology evolve from clunky servers to sophisticated AI systems. But one thing hasn’t … Continue reading →

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Unlocking Hidden Data: How NLP and Machine Learning Revolutionized My Work as a Systems Admin

Posted on May 7, 2025 by Grease Monkey

As a systems and database administrator, my world revolves around structure—clean tables, optimized queries, and reliable data flows. So when I was tasked with analyzing several rheumatoid arthritis patient databases to extract treatment insights, I expected a straightforward dive into … Continue reading →

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PS: Too Many Experiences? Here’s How to Turn Your Diverse Skill Set into a Job Search Superpower

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Grease Monkey

If you’re anything like me, your career looks like a vibrant mosaic—decades of technical expertise, leadership, client wins, and a knack for tying tech to business value. I’ve spent 25+ years mastering Linux, architecting data pipelines with Hadoop and Snowflake, … Continue reading →

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End of an ERA

Posted on April 17, 2025 by Grease Monkey

I have opted out of renewing this Domain and Website. Thankfully, the good folks at the Internet Archive will keep the history of this site for “all time” or ultimate entropy, whichever comes first. It’s been fun, sometimes funny, and … Continue reading →

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Defining and (probably) debunking “The Datamesh”

Posted on June 1, 2022 by Grease Monkey

I work for a Data Science Software company where we make tools to help people do data science(DS). Actually, we make one tool that covers the range of “data wrangling”, normalizing, testing, modeling, hosting and monitoring. There’s a lot more … Continue reading →

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Amazon Website Feedback does not exist.

Posted on May 4, 2022 by Grease Monkey

I’m an Amazon whore. My account was created in 1997, when they were a book store. I got a pre-GA Alexa invitation. I still order most of my consumables from Amazon. They are, IMHO, in decline as a whole. Alexa … Continue reading →

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You’re fired if you’re wrong.

Posted on May 2, 2022 by Grease Monkey

Being a sysadmin type, I get irked by things like, “why don’t we have version 9.x, it came out last week and solves our problems,” or why can’t I just have a VM where I can install anything I want?” … Continue reading →

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FedEx is F’d up

Posted on April 18, 2022 by Grease Monkey

So I ordered some flip flops. When I got the email that they had been delivered. I went outside to look around and they’re not anywhere. I tracked the package via FedEx. Hilarity ensued. And I never got my package. … Continue reading →

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buzzfeed.com is evil

Posted on April 6, 2022 by Grease Monkey

This shouldn’t be news to anyone, but it needs to be said. Buzzfeed has no, Zero, probably negative value on a healthy society. So why does it exist? I could go on at length from a biblical perceptive, but let’s … Continue reading →

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Time Limits for spare or “fixable” hardware

Posted on March 11, 2022 by Grease Monkey

A few months ago I was thinking about buying an SSD to put in a FreeNAS system. Mind you, I already have 2 free standing NAS devices using traditional spinning disks. I was considering this because I can download a … Continue reading →

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