Amund Tveit

I can't really see how they arrived at the final sentence; that MSFT hopes Fast will improve its websearch and ad business, though... - Vidar Larsen

s/are completely factored/can't be factored/gi; - Amund Tveit

With case studies that illustrate how Hadoop solves specific problems, this book helps you: * Learn the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), including ways to use its many APIs to transfer data * Write distributed computations with MapReduce, Hadoop's most vital component * Become familiar with Hadoop's data and IO building blocks for compression, data integrity, serialization, and persistence * Learn the common pitfalls and advanced features for writing real-world MapReduce programs * Design, build, and administer a dedicated Hadoop cluster * Use HBase, Hadoop's database for structured and semi-structured data - Amund Tveit

(rough cuts means early alpha) - Amund Tveit

[love] - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

Place a rubber duck on your monitor and describe your problems to it. There's something magical about stating your problems aloud that makes the solution more clear. - Amund Tveit

Happy is a framework for writing map-reduce programs for Hadoop using Jython. It files off the sharp edges on Hadoop and makes writing map-reduce programs a breeze - Amund Tveit

Map-reduce jobs in Happy are defined by sub-classing happy.HappyJob and implementing a map(records, task) and reduce(key, values, task) function. Then you create an instance of the class, set the job parameters (such as inputs and outputs) and call run(). When you call run(), Happy serializes your job instance and copies it and all accompanying libraries out to the Hadoop cluster. Then for each task in the Hadoop job, your job instance is de-serialized and map or reduce is called. - Amund Tveit

but then again, I am a trackpoint-person (read: thinkpad) and never used to using "mouseplate" on home laptop. - Amund Tveit

I use twhirl so whatever they do to the UI is invisible to me - Knut via twhirl

can you do friendfeed search using twhirl? - Amund Tveit

I can search from twhirl. Not sure if it is the exact same thing, but I think so. - Knut via twhirl

should I blog about: i) pragmatic rule induction, ii) a home refurnishing analogy for software engineering, or iii) my take on computational creativity? - Amund Tveit

i) Pragmatic rule induction sounds interesting. - DeWitt Clinton

all three. - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

I like pragmatic, so I'll go with i) as well. - Thomas Brox Røst

Disco is an open-source implementation of the Map-Reduce framework for distributed computing. As the original framework, Disco supports parallel computations over large data sets on unreliable cluster of computers. - Amund Tveit

Vidar: tried it already? - Amund Tveit

amund: nope, I'm still going to try Hadoop with Pig first. But I'm starting to see a sharp increase in Erlang usage internally :) - Vidar Larsen

browser 1: 5567ms - http://tinyurl.com/63879t - Amund Tveit

browser 2: 28616ms - http://tinyurl.com/5osz7c - Amund Tveit

browser 3: 10641ms - http://tinyurl.com/5goxnq - Amund Tveit

chrome, ie8, ff3 - Amund Tveit

recap from my first day - http://www.vldb2005.org/social... - Amund Tveit

Congrats! - Olivier Tharan

Congratulations! - Robert Konigsberg

Coming up on my two-year next week. Time goes by fast. - Steve Weis

that can't be a coincidence. - Amund Tveit

Here, we present a computational model that learns structures of many different forms and that discovers which form is best for a given dataset. The model makes probabilistic inferences over a space of graph grammars representing trees, linear orders, multidimensional spaces, rings, dominance hierarchies, cliques, and other forms and successfully discovers the underlying structure of a variety of physical, biological, and social domains. Our approach brings structure learning methods closer to human abilities and may lead to a deeper computational understanding of cognitive development. - Amund Tveit

Scala has Erlang inspired Actors if you want to stay on the jvm. Wonder if that is enough to realize the potential of future multi-core architectures... I'm currently working with both :) - Vidar Larsen

@Amund: Sure :) Currently I'm using Erlang in a distributed, robust state aggregation framework; not yet production ready. - Vidar Larsen

@Amund(2), and Scala I'm using as a more convenient implementation language for a RESTful servlet API based on Jersey/JSR311. The syntax is much terser than java for bean-like structures, and the built-in xml syntax eliminates the need for a templating layer. - Vidar Larsen

interesting (early phase) research field. - Amund Tveit via Bookmarklet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... - Amund Tveit