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CDH3 on Ubuntu Precise Pangolin

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Jeremy

I find myself typing the most absurd search strings (they read like lexical Tourette’s or XKCD passwords): pseudocluster ubuntu precise pangolin cloudera cdh3 I spent a while getting my new laptop set up with a Cloudera CDH3 Hadoop pseudo-distributed cluster.  But … Continue reading →

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“Bank heist” collaboration pattern

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Jeremy

Here’s my favorite collaboration pattern so far: the Bank Heist collaboration pattern. This pattern, which we know from The A-Team, Ocean’s 11 and Leverage, among others, shares many properties with an excellent developer team: You don’t have to like following orders to be on the team. … Continue reading →

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Dolphins are nifty — but not magical

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Jeremy

I saw this, and thought others would find it interesting too. … said one of the phoneticians at my alma mater. It’s a collection of rather fantastic claims about “dolphin language”, mixed with breathless praise for their affirming-the-consequent “Aqua Thought … Continue reading →

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order word constant information does have?

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Jeremy

I’ve been reading — in my “copious free time”, as they say: Montemurro MA, Zanette DH, 2011 “Universal Entropy of Word Ordering Across Linguistic Families.” PLoS ONE 6(5): e19875. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019875 This article takes on some of the really nifty ideas of information theory, and … Continue reading →

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