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by falaki 8y ago
https://databricks.com/blog/2018/10/12/writing-a-faster-json...
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by falaki 8y ago
Uber is clearly losing share to Lyft: "In 2017, our ridesharing category position in the United States and Canada was significantly impacted by adverse publicity events. Although the rate of decline in our ridesharing category position
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Uber Engaged in ‘Illegal’ Spying on Rivals, Ex-Employee Says(nytimes.com)
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by falaki 9y ago
Here is a much easier way to get started with Spark on AWS for free: https://community.cloud.databricks.com
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by falaki 9y ago
A lecture by her in 2014. At that time she was suffering from cancer: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tprlQMClSYQ>
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by falaki 10y ago
Have you looked into SparkR?
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by falaki 10y ago
Modern Iranians are to be blamed as well. Study of history is mostly overlooked. Archeological investigations are not funded. Part of it general mismanagement that applies to everything else. But the ideological regime in Iran is not keen a
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by falaki 10y ago
Apache Spark is agnostic to storage layer.
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by falaki 10y ago
A lot of the Siri IP belonged to Stanford SRI and Siri was basically licensing it. So when Adam left Siri and started Viv, Apple couldn't do anything. Also note that, Viv rarely talked about any details of their technology. Probably th
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by falaki 10y ago
I wonder if Samsung would ever put this on their Android Phones. I am confident it will not be able to compete with Google Now on the same device. In addition to founders, Viv got a good number of early Siri engineers. From this and other h
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by falaki 10y ago
I wish there was more details on the benchmark. For example, I am interested to know if schema inference was turned on for spark-csv?
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by falaki 10y ago
Direct link to the signup page, if you don't care about the press release: https://databricks.com/ce
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by falaki 10y ago
Ever since using Apache Spark's Data Sources API was released, I have been relying no different Spark Data Source packages for my ETL jobs.
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by falaki 10y ago
The question is, why does the U.S. need an ally in the Middle East? As oil becomes less and less strategically significant, and the Middle East region dries up [1], it will become less and less important. Do we desperately need an ally in C
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by falaki 10y ago
As an Iranian, I don't see it as clear-cut. 1. Climate change is accelerating and changing geopolitics of the region faster. Iran’s power and influence has been continuously decreasing in past 2500 years as the Iranian Plateau has got
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by falaki 11y ago
Does anyone know how this $14M compares to what employees lost recently?
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by falaki 11y ago
Fortran programmers find it much "easier" than other languages. You are arguing about a subjective matter here. The fact that there are so many R packages and users shows it is useful to a large enough subset of users in statistic
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by falaki 11y ago
Note that you can change Spark's aggregation algorithm to sort-based with a configuration.