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jakebol
7y ago
Funny that he mentions Salt Lake / the Salt lake valley as the only other experience with significant levels of air pollution. I often wonder how "silicon slopes" companies are able to attract people here, they must never in
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jakebol
7y ago
Made the jump from OSX and for scientific users who don't to endlessly chase a working laptop setup PopOS and it's nvidia driver support (on a thinkpad) has been fantastic, highly recommend as well.
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jakebol
7y ago
usually original investors get stock in the split-up companies correct? In the long run the aggregate value of the split up / smaller basket of independent companies could be larger than the original quasi monopoly.
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jakebol
7y ago
TileDB, Inc. | Full-Time | REMOTE | Cambridge, USA | Athens, Greece | https://tiledb.io TileDB is a technology for storing and managing enormous volumes of structured data on the cloud. TileDB efficiently stores data generate
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jakebol
7y ago
My Father works as an engineer for the VA, the hidden costs of this transition is the need to rewire almost the entire VA hospital system to comply with cerner networking requirements at the cost of $100's of millions per hospital befo
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jakebol
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TileDB, Inc. | Full-Time | REMOTE | Cambridge, USA | Athens, Greece | https://tiledb.io TileDB is a technology for storing and managing enormous volumes of structured data on the cloud. TileDB efficiently stores data generate
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jakebol
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TileDB, Inc. | Full-Time | REMOTE | Cambridge, USA | Athens, Greece | https://tiledb.io TileDB is a disruptive technology for storing and managing enormous volumes of structured data, adopting the best ideas from columnar and sp
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jakebol
8y ago
Even after such infrastructure is built, a > 0 multiplier assumes the economic impact of the project would be greater than the lifetime costs of upkeep and maintenance of the infrastructure (and current and future taxes to support such i
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TileDB, Inc. | Software Engineers | Cambridge, MA or REMOTE (US) | https://tiledb.io TileDB, Inc. is looking for new team members to help develop the future of big data storage. For emerging and growing fields such as genomics,
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jakebol
8y ago
Subsidized rates are ~5-7%. I know some of my sisters private loans are higher than 7% (I think somewhere around 10%). My parents gave her absolutely terrible advice about taking on the loans that she did, the millennial generation needs
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jakebol
9y ago
Not necessarily, if you don't want to take the time to submit a full CV, feel free to send us a message outlining your background / experience / interests. The company is HQ'd in Cambridge, but (all) the rest of the team
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jakebol
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Jake from TileDB, Inc. Performance wise I would look at the referenced paper in this thread which provides benchmarks for various workloads. As to what advantages TileDB may offer you that is problem dependent, esp. compared to dense simu
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jakebol
9y ago
Absolutely! Drop us a line at hello@tiledb.io and tell us a little more about the problem you are trying to solve and we can go from there.
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jakebol
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Haha, fully agree! It's good to separate MUMPS the language from MUMPS the storage layer / database which was innovative and pioneering in many ways. I don't think we need to re-hash MUMPS the language :)
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jakebol
9y ago
Jake from TileDB, Inc. Engineering as a discipline is conservative (for good reason). The tools and the processes they use change slowly. Matlab is still entirely relevant both in the sciences and in industry. There are people with huge
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jakebol
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Jake from TileDB, Inc. In addition to the differences pointed out in the paper, I think SciDB and TileDB are very different philosophically. SciDB is architected very much like a traditional RDMS while TileDB is much more lightweight. Sc
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jakebol
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Jake from TileDB, Inc. wenc and srean are right. techniques such as those used in zfp and fpzip wenc mentioned are also used to compress real world las file (point cloud) datasets. For the moment we are only focused on lossless compression
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jakebol
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Jake from TileDB, Inc. I think this would be an ideal workload for array data stores (NetCDF a standard in this area uses HDF5 under the hood). You have <N> number of attributes that you want per grid-point over time (and you want t
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Jake from TileDB, Inc. Genomics is a big field where sparse matrix storage is needed. Human genomes are stored as a diff off of a reference, which as you indicated forms a graph which can be represented as a sparse matrix. In other fields
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jakebol
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Jake from TileDB, Inc. here: Depending on the structure of the JSON files you are querying you maybe able to take advantage of columnar compression and massively reduce the dataset size (especially if the json files contain numeric data).