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Running Alpha Lucid on the Dell T7500

March 15, 2010 – 6:28 pm

The past few years, as I’ve written about, I’ve worked primarily off Thinkpad laptops, with an aging Sun Opteron workstation available for more computation heavy tasks. Neither of those pieces of hardware, however, is up to the workloads I’ve been engaged with lately. Virtualizing multiple operating system instances, working on large datasets, or tinkering with [...]

Posted in Analytics, Big Data, Linux, Virtualization | Comments (2)

Finally: The Google Apps Marketplace Q&A

March 12, 2010 – 3:51 pm

For about five years now, I’ve been anticipating the rise of application and developer marketplaces. It baffles me that no one has perceived commercial opportunity in the massive inefficiencies in a customer’s ability to discover, procure and purchase apps or services for a given platform. I’ve done Q&A’s on the subject, I’ve used speaking engagements [...]

Posted in Marketplaces, Software-as-a-Service | Comments (3)

The View from NoSQL Live: Three Takeaways

March 12, 2010 – 1:10 pm

Crossroads, Inroads, Pitfalls & Bylaws
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NoSQL Live was a very different show than I’ve been to in recent months. It had very little in common with, for example, HadoopWorld, where the audience was largely already intimately familiar with the technology and value proposition. The NoSQL Live audience, by contrast, to judge [...]

Posted in AltDB, Analytics, Databases | Comments (12)

What Sports Can Teach Us About Analytics: The MIT Sloan Conference

March 10, 2010 – 2:56 pm

Last weekend’s MIT Sports Analytics conference was, pretty easily, the best conference I’ve attended. And I attend a lot of conferences. With a 9:00 AM session on Baseball Analytics featuring one former Red Sox General Manager and the club’s current Director of Baseball Information Services, obviously it had a potentially unfair advantage over the competition, [...]

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del.icio.us, Thank You : Pinboard, Welcome

March 5, 2010 – 4:17 pm

Really, all I wanted to do yesterday morning was find a copy of the del.icio.us Chrome extension I was used to on my old machine. Paging through the Chrome extensions repository, however, all I turned up were a bunch of glorified bookmarklets. Eventually I turned up the “official” Chrome extensions Google Group. The last update [...]

Posted in Social Networking, Software-as-a-Service, Web 2.0 | Comments (13)