Stories by yarapavan

Stephen Hawking: If you could talk to Albert Einstein, what would you say?

How to Get a Fair Result From a Biased Coin

Exciting Tools for Big Data: S4, Sawzall and mrjob

Book: The Design of Approximation Algorithms

A Comparison of Scalable NoSQL DataStores [pdf]

Google University: Exploring Computational Thinking

Internal Email on Why a Software Company Migrates Away from MySQL

Robert Love (of Linux Kernel Fame) Uses This

Sizzle: A compiler + runtime for Google's Sawzall language, optimized for Hadoop

Heds, deks, and ledes

It’s Easy to Be Great…It’s Hard to Be Consistent

JavaScript: A Second Impression of NodeJS

Cython, Sage, and the Need for Speed

Google Opensources Sawzall Language

Salman Khan (KhanAcademy): YouTube U. Beats YouSnooze U.

Tell HN: ACM Digital Library allows online comments on published papers

Hadoop++: Making a Yellow Elephant (Hadoop) Run Like a Cheeta

Python Libraries All Researchers Should Know About

Building a recommendation engine with Mahout

Booz Allen Hamilton: Tackling Large Scale Data in Government with Hadoop