Tag Archives: hadoop

If it works in testing, it’ll work in production!

In theory, anyway. Let’s look at Exhibit A from this past week: developing a fairly basic algorithm on Hadoop and deploying it Amazon’s beastly EC2 cluster. The Code If you’re at all interested, I’ve started posting code from my coursework … Continue reading

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Congratulations! You’re being recruited!

Which, suffice to say, is not the same thing as being accepted. But it’s ε-away. Anywho. Yes everyone, recruiting season is once again upon us, and for better or worse that means everyone is putting their best foot forward. Universities are inviting promising … Continue reading

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I need a running blog

Mainly because there’s so much going on with running and with researching, it’s getting difficult to pick what to bloogggggg about. Though I suppose that’s better than the alternative of starting every post with “so I’ve been bad about blogging … Continue reading

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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

5:00am: Yes, 5am: wake-up, rise and shine, IT’S GOING TO BE A *$T(*@$GWJL@+@#*$@ DAY! Mainly awake because The Lady wanted to hit spin class at her gym before work. Figured I’d go ahead and get up too, since today is … Continue reading

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Hadoop [actually, Ubuntu] Headache

My desktop, Ronon, is a beast (yes, its namesake is exactly what you think it is): twin Radeon 4890 video cards, terabytes of hard drive space (will eventually be adding an SSD to the mix; that’s the next major upgrade), 18GB of … Continue reading

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A new year full of…MapReduce?

If you’re reading the title of this post and wondering what the crap I’m going on about, I’d like to share with you one of my favorite quotes from the wonderful, awesome, and fantastic PBS TV show Arthur: D.W.: “Speaking … Continue reading

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