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by marklit 9y ago
I just tried out the service. Some feedback: 1. It would be nice if I could upload CSVs that are gzip compressed. 2. When I download the CSVs it would be good if the filenames included gz at the end as of now they're written out as a s
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by marklit 9y ago
I find the Windows 10 Task Manager very useful. Good to see GPUs will be listed as well now.
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by marklit 9y ago
Though IT support would count, I was thinking more along the lines of supporting traders, such as quants and the people that specialise in their toolkits that support them.
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by marklit 9y ago
I have to argue that there are both tax rates and job opportunities available in Switzerland that you'd be hard pressed to find elsewhere in Europe. If someone it taking home ~300K CHF / year in some sort of support role in a bank
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by marklit 9y ago
Their assets in Switzerland would be priced in CHF. It could be a good diversification from USD-priced assets they have at home. There was a single-day 30% pop in CHF a few years back.
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by marklit 9y ago
Does anyone have a link to a collective list of all known bugs in PostgreSQL?
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by marklit 9y ago
I would suspect a few of these wealthy foreigners buying property are trying to make sure there wealth is tied up in something their home state cannot take away ownership of. If it depreciates a bit, it's probably fine. 97% of somethin
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1.1B Taxi Rides with Spark 2.2 and 3 Raspberry Pi 3 Model Bs(tech.marksblogg.com)
4 points by marklit 9y ago|0 comments
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1.1 Billion Taxi Rides with Spark 2.2 and 3 Raspberry Pi 3 Model Bs(tech.marksblogg.com)
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1.1 Billion Taxi Trips on 3 Raspberry Pis Running Spark 2.2(tech.marksblogg.com)
7 points by marklit 9y ago|0 comments
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1.1B taxi rides benchmark on the GPU- and PostgreSQL-powered BrytlytDB(tech.marksblogg.com)
136 points by marklit 9y ago|2 comments
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by marklit 9y ago
Anyone care to chime in on why spot instances are now 10x on-demand instances? I've got a thread going here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14769026
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by marklit 9y ago
I'm wondering if the Cloud providers are seeing cryptocoin mining as the primary workload at the moment and don't want to be left with a ton of inventory the next time there is a difficulty increment and clients move on.
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Ask HN: Why are p2.16xlarge EC2 spot instances 10x the price of on-demand?
4 points by marklit 9y ago|5 comments
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by marklit 9y ago
If you mean not as a cluster Spark standalone can do conversions.
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by marklit 9y ago
I don't work for MapD. I run my own consulting company in London and all of my clients are British firms and/or have a presence in the UK. MapD doesn't have a UK LTD setup or anything of that kind. My Bio and CV are right at
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Compiling MapD's Source Code(tech.marksblogg.com)
48 points by marklit 9y ago|5 comments
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by marklit 9y ago
Same dataset? Mind telling me the uncompressed byte count?
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by marklit 9y ago
I've seen bot traffic claiming to be recent versions of Firefox from residential IPs in the Ukraine pulling robots.txt. Sometimes this is one of the few clues to go on.
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by marklit 10y ago
I've used BQ, RS and Athena. Their benchmark results and links to how I conducted benchmarks on each can be found here: http://tech.marksblogg.com/benchmarks.html I could probably write a book on my experiences but I&#
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by marklit 10y ago
Thanks for the heads up, I've updated the gist.
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Detecting Bots in Apache and Nginx Logs Using Python(tech.marksblogg.com)
66 points by marklit 10y ago|13 comments
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Doom Bots in TensorFlow(tech.marksblogg.com)
25 points by marklit 10y ago|1 comments
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Doom Bots with TensorFlow(tech.marksblogg.com)
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Analysing Petabytes of Websites(tech.marksblogg.com)
2 points by marklit 10y ago|0 comments
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A Review of “Designing Data-Intensive Applications”(tech.marksblogg.com)
3 points by marklit 10y ago|0 comments
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1.1B Taxi Rides on ClickHouse(tech.marksblogg.com)
47 points by marklit 10y ago|0 comments
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by marklit 10y ago
If anyone is interested in getting this setup I put together some install notes along with some speed bumps I encountered while benchmarking Alenka a few months back: http://tech.marksblogg.com/alenka-open-source-gpu-databas
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1.1B Taxi Rides on AWS Athena(tech.marksblogg.com)
11 points by marklit 10y ago|0 comments
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Alenka: A GPU-Driven, Open Source Database(tech.marksblogg.com)
3 points by marklit 10y ago|0 comments

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