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MemSQL Wants To Be The Storage Engine For Spark
The Spark in-memory processing framework that came out of the AMPLab at the University of California at Berkeley is hotter than hot. …
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Deep Learning and the New Bayesian Golden Age
If one were to look at the approximate results from various deep learning tasks; from image classification to speech recognition and beyond, the stand-by quote from Bayesian statistics that “probability is orderly opinion, and that inference from data is nothing other than the revision of such opinion in the light of relevant new information,” takes on added weight. …
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Google Fires Up Spark, Hadoop Service On Its Cloud
If Google knows a lot about one thing, it is that developers do not want to spend a lot of time setting up infrastructure just so they can create applications that chew on lots of data to run the business. …
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Making Cassandra Do Azure, But Not Windows
When Microsoft says that it is embracing Linux as a peer to Windows, it is not kidding. …
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Why Twitter Dumped Storm for Homegrown Real-Time Engine
If there is any phrase that describes Twitter, both from the infrastructure and end user points of view, it is real time. …
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Deep Belief Networks at Heart of NASA Image Classification
Deep learning algorithms have pushed image recognition and classification to new heights over the last few years, and those same approaches are now being moved into more complex image classification areas, including satellite imagery. …
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Airbnb Shares The Keys To Its Infrastructure
There was something ironic about meeting Mike Curtis, the vice president of engineering at Airbnb, in a hotel in lower Manhattan. …
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Spark Makes Hadoop Mainstream, Cloudera Jumps In
It is probably a good thing that Doug Cutting, the creator of Hadoop, named the batch-mode data analytics product he created at Yahoo after his child’s stuffed animal rather than something specific like MapReduce Engine. …
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How Can IBM Power8 Win Deals Away From Intel Xeon?
This is not the first time that Big Blue has found itself the underdog in the datacenter, and it probably will not be the last time, either. …
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The Black Box Problem Closes in on Neural Networks
Explaining the process of how any of us might have arrived to a particular conclusion or decision by verbally detailing the variables, weights, and conditions that our brains navigate through to arrive at an answer can be complex enough. …