Tag Archives: Computational

Clean Inbox!

5 email accounts, 56 RSS feeds, NOTHING in the inbox. Scrubbed clean. Not even read mail. This took me a couple hours to complete, but was well worth it. Take a look (click for a better view).

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Hadoop >> Cloudera

I’m pretty late to the game on this but I’ve had a lot of fun reading up on Hadoop and Cloudera. As I understand it, Apache Hadoop is a freeware/open-source software package that allows a lot of data-intensive computing systems to … Continue reading

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Massively Parallel Processing

Though I haven’t been living under a rock, today was the first I heard about Massively Parallel Processing. I honestly thought it was a joke (a strange-sounding name, to me at least) but apparently it’s very real and is, essentially, … Continue reading

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Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine

There’s been a lot of talk about Wolfram|Alpha’s Computational Knowledge Engine. There’s a webcast from Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Here’s a blurb:

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