August 2010
5 posts
JRuby Hacking Guide (RubyKaigi talk by @nahi) →
Also check out his JRuby Source Reading Guide.
Zippers →
Fun article on zippers, purely functional data structures. The article specifically focuses on implementing zipper lists, and zipper trees in Erlang.
“…So we used a series of large scale genetic optimization tests running...”
– MailChimp’s Project Omnivore: Declassified | MailChimp Email Marketing Blog
Another interesting application of Hadoop in machine learning for BigData crunching. I need to learn more about genetic optimization algorithms.
“The goal of Anonymouse is to selectively exclude data from the cookies we drop...”
– Anonymouse | Engineering Rapleaf
The article describes how Rapleaf is trying to automate the process of anonymizing user data (from cookies). Read the follow-up post in which they describe how they sped-up ‘superset queries’ (get all supersets containing the given set) to implement...
Hadoop Summit 2010 recordings →
Videos & slides from Hadoop Summit 2010 are now available.