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by gadamc 13y ago
Cloudant (based on CouchDB) automatically triggers map-reduce and auto-compacts your database for you. This is my second post about Cloudant - note that I am employed by Cloudant. :)
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by gadamc 13y ago
Cloudant will soon offer geo-spatial queries. Its in beta now: https://cloudant.com/product/cloudant-features/geospatial/ .
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LUX experiment finds no Dark Matter and excludes others by factor of nearly 100(theregister.co.uk)
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by gadamc 13y ago
.. having said that, there are a few experiments that have data which some have claimed or interpreted as direct evidence for dark matter. but the community is far from agreement on that. in fact, most people are skeptical.
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by gadamc 13y ago
Ha! That would be a much bigger headline. Well, in a sense, its already been detected, but just not directly detected in a lab, produced by the LHC, or observed via any self-annihilation process. We know something it exists through cosmol
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by gadamc 13y ago
If your queries are largely always the exact same and you need to update your sums as new data is added, you could look at the incremental MapReduce of CouchDB/Cloudant. A single CouchDB might hold your data, but Cloudant would scale i
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by gadamc 14y ago
I think its completely crazy that hardly any of the charting tools in javascript support error bars! Only Highcharts 3.0 beta supports error bars, as far as I know. Data are absolutely meaningless without error bars and its not very smart t