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For the past two years, I have been working with this amazing bunch of people whilst, being paid by Google in their summer of code program in a project called Mahout. And like the name says, it is trying to tame the young beast known as Hadoop. I have...
Topics: decision trees, hadoop, hbase, java, k means clustering, latent dirichlet allocation, lucene, machine learning, mahout, mean shift clustering, naive bayes, naive bayes classifier, netflix recommender, recommendations, slope one recommender
Topics: decision trees, hadoop, hbase, java, k means clustering, latent dirichlet allocation, lucene, machine learning, mahout, mean shift clustering, naive bayes, naive bayes classifier, netflix recommender, recommendations, slope one recommender

Creating Indexes/Sorting on very large tables in Mysql - 191 days ago
If your dataset is anywhere between 1 million to 180 million then you have come to the right blog. Normally a procedure like this will require atleast 1 day or more depending on dataset. But I will teach you how to get results in as quick as 3 hrs.... Topics: database, guide, indexing, memory tables, merge tables, mysql, partitioning, sorting, technology

Why do Indian Beers taste bad? I have had this question buzzing in the back of my mind for quite a long time. Till now I believe that all my friends and colleagues think we Indians just don’t know to make Beer. Like how hard is it?In my Tharavadu...
Topics: after taste, bad taste, beer, bitter, budweiser, carlsberg, castle lager, cow's piss, fosters, glycerin, haywards, haywards 5000, kalyani, kingfisher, life, removing glycerin, taste good
Topics: after taste, bad taste, beer, bitter, budweiser, carlsberg, castle lager, cow's piss, fosters, glycerin, haywards, haywards 5000, kalyani, kingfisher, life, removing glycerin, taste good

I am a power user. When I surf, I have around 20-25 tabs open. I have many processes running simultaneously on my windows 7 RC. When I code, I have a test Ubuntu installation running on VMware. To do all these, I spent most of my earnings on a...
Topics: adobe, chrome, context switch, dell, flash, google, inspiron 1720, morro, page fault, shockwave flash, techcrunch, technology, thrashing, VMware, windows 7
Topics: adobe, chrome, context switch, dell, flash, google, inspiron 1720, morro, page fault, shockwave flash, techcrunch, technology, thrashing, VMware, windows 7

There are a lot of ways to download content from a video sharing sites. Most folks rely on applications to download videos. Applications are really unsuitable for 3 reasonsMostly they are specific to one or two sitesIn some cases they are sharewareThey..
Topics: dailymotion, downthemall, firebug, firefox, guide, metacafe, technology, veoh, video download, vimeo, youtube
Topics: dailymotion, downthemall, firebug, firefox, guide, metacafe, technology, veoh, video download, vimeo, youtube


