Monday, April 29, 2013

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Chris Skinner - speaker

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 03:21 AM PDT

I recently got signed up by O2 Speakers as my speaker agency.read more...

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Blog Post: Falkenblog: Einstein Rebuked

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 07:16 PM PDT

Interesting take on a cliche:I once read that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. I fundamentally disagree with this idea. I think that doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of hope. ~Debbie MillmanAs someone who does the same thing most days, often coming up with nothing, I find this...

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Blog Post: ThePracticalQuant: Tachyon: An open source, distributed, fault-tolerant, in-memory file system

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 10:34 AM PDT

[A version of this post appears on the O'Reilly Strata blog.]In earlier posts I've written about how Spark and Shark run much faster than Hadoop and Hive by1 caching data sets in-memory. But suppose one wants to share datasets across jobs/frameworks, while retaining speed gains garnered by being in-memory? An example would be performing computations using Spark, saving it, and accessing the saved...

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