Author Archives: GauZ
Tinkering with Apache Hadoop – Map Reduce Framework
I have used a Map Reduce based system at my present employer (Bank of America – Merrill Lynch) to process (read “crunch”) extremely large datasets in matter of seconds. Sometimes I used those to price bonds in real-time otherwise it was used for data processing/reporting purposes. It is an in-house product, known as Hugs framework […]
Python trademark at risk in EU!!
It seems another firm in EU is trying to aquire trademark to ‘python’ keyword which could prove to be disastrous to the developer community in general. More information – http://pyfound.blogspot.ca/2013/02/python-trademark-at-risk-in-europe-we.html
Cannot SSH localhost
I was trying to connect to localhost machine via SSH but was not able to do so on my Ubuntu box. That is because SSH server needs to be installed and running on port 22. You can do so by executing the following command on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install openssh-server You can then check it’s […]
Computing similarities between datasets
Similarity measures is used all over the web and is pretty well known by anyone who has performed Internet searches using a search engine. Assuming the entire internet comprising of all the websites as one single database which could be divided into two classes – those which can answer your query and other which cannot. […]
Wrote my first strategy game – KALAH!
Kalah or Mancala is a strategy game. It is a two-player game and heavily favors the person who starts playing first. Each participant starts with certain number of seeds which are randomly allocated. At every turn, the user tries to grab seeds from the opponent’s house. The goal is to finish the game with the […]
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