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4 May
Super Moon + Cinqo de Mayo + Star Wars Day = Oh My!
I just learned that we are having a super moon this weekend, so I hope to get out at rise or set to see it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_moon Space Weather News for May 3, 2012 Earth is entering a stream of debris from Halley’s Comet, source of the annual eta Aquarid meteor shower. The shower peaks [...]
27 Apr
Wolfram Alpha releases first desktop PC app for Windows 7, makes homework even easier by Jason Hidalgo
Wolfram Alpha releases first desktop PC app for Windows 7, makes homework even easier by Jason Hidalgo via Engadget
26 Apr
Decoding Financial Complexity by Booney Tan
Decoding Financial Complexity by Booney Tan via Visualizing.org News and Visualizations Feed
26 Apr
RavenDB Sharding–Data Driven Sharding via Ayende @ Rahien
In my previous post, I introduced RavenDB Sharding and discussed how we can use Blind Sharding to a good effect. I also mentioned that this approach is somewhat lacking, because we don’t have enough information at hand to be able to really understand what is going on. Let me show you how we can define [...]
26 Apr
RavenDB Sharding – Blind sharding via Ayende @ Rahien
From the get go, RavenDB was designed with sharding in mind. We had a sharding client inside RavenDB when we shipped, and it made for some really cool demos…. via Ayende @ Rahien http://ayende.com/blog/155297/ravendb-sharding-ndash-blind-sharding?key=2a0451be-81f0-4b8a-891a-7815d4c109bd&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AyendeRahien+%28Ayende+%40+Rahien%29
23 Apr
MapReduce Patterns, Algorithms, and Use Cases
MapReduce Patterns, Algorithms, and Use Cases: Ilya Katsov’s post enumerates an extensive set of patterns and algorithms each accompanied by use cases and pseudocode: counting and summing (log analysis, data querying) collating (inverted indexes, ETL) filtering, parsing, validation (log analysis, data querying, ETL, data validation) distributed task execution (physical and engineering simulations, numerical analysis, performance testing) [...]
23 Apr
Internet Basics Wikipedia Articles
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (often called TCP/IP, although not all protocols use TCP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of [...]
21 Apr
The Fresh Prince of Eternia
Adam got in just one little fight and was sent off to live at Castle Grayskull. Since the last time that we featured his wonderful mashups, Marco D’Alfonso has been busy combining Sesame Street with DC Comics, Transformers with Norman Rockwell, and more. Go forth and explore his hilarious gallery. Link -via Comics Alliance via [...]
