The Surprising Path Of Artificial Intelligence
I read the following in a NY Post article last year by Google’s research chief Peter Norvig: Forty years ago this December, President Nixon declared a war on cancer, pledging a “total national commitment” to conquering the disease. Fifty years ago this spring, President Kennedy declared a space race, promisin more ...
The Surprising Path Of Artificial Intelligence
I read the following in a NY Post article last year by Google’s research chief Peter Norvig: Forty years ago this December, President Nixon declared a war on cancer, pledging a “total national commitment” to conquering the disease. Fifty years ago this spring, President Kennedy declared a space race, promisin more ...
Best Practices for Selecting Apache Hadoop Hardware
We get asked a lot of questions about how to select Apache Hadoop worker node hardware. During my time at Yahoo!, we bought a lot of nodes with 6*2TB SATA drives, 24GB RAM and 8 cores in a dual socket configuration. This has proven to be a pretty good configuration. This year, I’ve seen systems with 12*2TB SA more ...
Data Loader for NOSQL Databases
In one of my recent projects, I had to load product data from a CSV file into HBase and also to index it for search purpose.. I decided to separate out the loader part of the project as a stand alone tool and make available as open source. Currently, it’s hosted in github. It supports HBase. I will be adding more ...
Big Data Cloud August 11th Meetup – Hadoop powered Engines; 100+ Attendees; Corporate Sponsorships & Giveaways
BigDataCloud’s theme of “Hadoop Powered Predictions & Recommendations Engines” attracted over 100 people to the meetup last night, sponsored by LexisNexis & ThirdEyeCloud. The attendees thronged the LexisNexis’s booth about its newly debuted HPCC Systems & got an understanding of how its Hadoop alternative ca more ...
