mrlebowski

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by mrlebowski 17y ago
Thanks for the quick reply. How many machines are running MySQL for you? I was reading this website - http://www.metabrew.com/article/anti-rdbms-a-list-of-distrib... I have not tried HBase and HyperTable myself yet, but the blog post says
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by mrlebowski 17y ago
Why are you loading the processed data on MySQL tables? I am not sure about how much MySQL would scale, given that wikipedia has ~3million articles. Like I said, I am working on a similar problem right now and we are trying to avoid MySQL.
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by mrlebowski 17y ago
This is almost exactly what I have been working on, and would be a lot of help! Thanks !
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by mrlebowski 17y ago
I totally agree, that is what had led me to this site initially !
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by mrlebowski 17y ago
Dijkstra was known for his habit of carefully composing manuscripts with his fountain pen. The manuscripts are called EWDs, since Dijkstra numbered them with EWD as prefix. Dijkstra would distribute photocopies of a new EWD among his collea
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The manuscripts of Dijkstra(cs.utexas.edu)
27 points by mrlebowski 17y ago|3 comments
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by mrlebowski 17y ago
you just added to the noise
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The Multi-Principal OS Construction of the Gazelle Web Browser(research.microsoft.com)
2 points by mrlebowski 17y ago|0 comments
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by mrlebowski 17y ago
The same is happening with almost every other form of media too. Sound-bites in -> sound-bites out.
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by mrlebowski 17y ago
How does this qualify to be on HN ?
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45+ Excellent Code Snippet Resources and Repositories(smashingmagazine.com)
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by mrlebowski 17y ago
No tributes to Fravia? The list seems incomplete..
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by mrlebowski 17y ago
I totally agree, just quit watching it mid way.
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by mrlebowski 17y ago
tybris & philwelch: I am new to economics, your comments make me feel I am started with the wrong book! Can you recommend some places to start learning ? Thanks!
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by mrlebowski 17y ago
I am not sure, is there some way to find out ?
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by mrlebowski 17y ago
As the title says: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics! I love the way author uses simple language to describe complex economics concepts.
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Economics in One lesson - Henry Hazlitt(jim.com)
72 points by mrlebowski 17y ago|52 comments
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by mrlebowski 17y ago
For a company that started off with the motive of making the cheapest and most usable computers, and that believed in sharing its design [from iWoz: the APPLE-1 architecture was made public], Apple has come a long way. They are successful,
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Goodbye, Apple(mdeslaur.blogspot.com)
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by mrlebowski 17y ago
Which book did you guys stop reading recently ? I was reading "Fooled by randomness" and just could not make myself go beyond the ~25% mark..!
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by mrlebowski 17y ago
Its just a number, this is just a board where we discuss what others have written (and then people find time to VOTE on the discussions about what someone else has written!). stop taking this number so seriously people!!
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by mrlebowski 17y ago
How much can they scale? And how much historical data would be stored? I am working on crunching huge weblogs right now and looks like they have already solved the problem (on a smaller scale? The website doesn't talk about traffic that the
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by mrlebowski 17y ago
I totally agree. I wonder what other unadvertised "features" the kindle has, which are transmitted secretly by the always on wi-fi. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!
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by mrlebowski 17y ago
I found most of these sites to be pretty low on content...
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by mrlebowski 17y ago
yeah, but then you need orders of magnitude more data for building the dictionary which is orders of magnitude larger :)
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by mrlebowski 17y ago
Hey thats a good use of bigram probabilities :) Try reading in loads of text (Indian blogs if you want, but wikipedia would be more accessible) to build bigram probabilities, this way you can totally remove dependency on google suggest (and