ryancox

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   by ryancox 16y ago

   Interesting read. I would add that, when it comes to learning, one size does not fit all. See some research done by Richard Felder at NC State on different styles: http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILS... Find out w
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   by ryancox 17y ago

   one thing to keep in mind: there is no distributed filesystem (HDFS in Hadoop's case). So depending on your workload, you may need to make a choice about which DFS to use along side Disco.
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   by ryancox 18y ago

   This is the algorithm used in Hadoop's record setting TeraSort benchmark: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2008/07/08/HadoopWinsTeraSo... http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/core/trunk/src/examples/...
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   Excellent new book in the making: Computational Modeling and Complexity Science(asciiarmor.com)

   3 points by ryancox 18y ago|0 comments
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   by ryancox 18y ago

   A couple suggestions for importing: 1) I would recommend creating a scratch account to test the import with. You can always nuke that account and retry the import process. 2) You will want to include more fields than the sample does. Defini
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   by ryancox 18y ago

   FWIW: I've also recently ported to Tumblr. The Python code I cooked up for the import grew into: http://code.google.com/p/python-tumblr/