I’ve written previously about our attempts at the Kaggle Digit Recogniser problem and our approach so far...
0 replies - 1677 views - 01/10/13 by Mark Needham in Articles
A few weeks ago, we released the beta (oh, sorry, the ”β”) of streamdrill. One question we heard quite often was, “Well, what is it good for?” So...
0 replies - 1755 views - 01/10/13 by Mikio Braun in Articles
Parsing script or function options and non-option arguments is easy in Bash with getopts but there are some catches, such as the need to reset...
0 replies - 2210 views - 01/10/13 by Jakub Holý in Articles
One time a professor asked me about a problem and I suggested a simple solution. He shot down my idea because it wasn’t complex enough. He said my idea would...
9 replies - 2433 views - 01/10/13 by John Cook in Articles
To list the sizes of Hive tables in Hadoop in GBs:
sudo -u hdfs hadoop fs -du /user/hive/warehouse/ | awk '/^[0-9]+/ { print int($1/(1024**3)) "...
0 replies - 1981 views - 01/10/13 by Jakub Holý in Articles
In real-time operational contexts, it’s important to monitor system metrics for major swings in value. Such swings, whether upward (“pops”) or downward...
0 replies - 2127 views - 01/10/13 by Willie Wheeler in Articles
On the recommendation of J.B. Rainsberger I’ve been reading ‘Reality is Broken‘ – a book which talks about how we can apply some of the...
0 replies - 3548 views - 01/09/13 by Mark Needham in Articles
A while back I wrote about sonnet primes, primes of the form ababcdcdefefgg where the letters a through g represent digits and a is...
0 replies - 1646 views - 01/09/13 by John Cook in Articles
This article is by Stephen Mouring Jr, appearing courtesy of Scott Leberknight.This is part one of a two part blog series on how to read/write Apache Hive data...
0 replies - 2473 views - 01/09/13 by Scott Leberknight in Articles
The comSysto GmbH and more than 1,400 organizations in 111 countries are combining energies in 2013 to promote the International Year of Statistics...
0 replies - 1253 views - 01/09/13 by Daniel Bartl in Articles
This Saturday, we had two interesting museum experiences, with the kids. Kids are 10, 7 (and a half as she keeps saying) and 2 (and a half, too). In the...
0 replies - 1594 views - 01/09/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles
Following up on his tutorial on getting started with Chef Solo, DevOpsCast's Mat Schaffer helps you install your Chef Server:
0 replies - 1320 views - 01/09/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles
So someone sends you a link to the latest Gangnam parody / cat meme / man jumping on frozen pool video and the link looks something like...
0 replies - 2633 views - 01/08/13 by Troy Hunt in Articles
A Swedish colleague of mine once told me that Clas Ohslon is termed a “husband kindergarten” by Swedish woman and I have to admit that if I’m ever nearby...
0 replies - 1930 views - 01/08/13 by Gareth Llewellyn in Articles
SOA World magazine points to a 2013 prediction from Gazzang, a company dealing with Linux data security. Gazzang reckons that 2013 will be the year...
0 replies - 1020 views - 01/08/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles
