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  • RE: Open is Not Necessarily More Secure

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    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Open is Not Necessarily More Secure

    Also, let's not forget the HeartBleed vulnerability discovered a few years back in OpenSSL.

    http://www.pcworld.com/article/2141740/is-open-source-to-blame-for-the-heartbleed-bug.html

    Open Source means that the public can review the code to verify that the developers are not...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: A Good Use for Hadoop

    Half a GB of clickstream data per NetFlix user every day should raise some eyebrows. When I read about these PB and EB scale Big Data projects, I think about...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Learning from Microsoft

    Microsoft is the IT equivalent of an 18 wheeled transport truck; it's definately in the slow lane when climbing a steep hill, but it's unstoppable on the flip side.

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: The Dangers of Algorithms

    The best IDE tools separate logical design from the physical design while at the same time keeping them integrated into one seamless end-to-end process. For example a business analyst can...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: The Dangers of Algorithms

    Most of the algorithms we use today are based on proven statistical models that are a century or more old. However, for an algorithm to do it's job (make accurate...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: The Dangers of Algorithms

    With practically every industry becomming ever more driven by data and analytics, consumers need to reevaluate their brand loyalty. For example, that auto insurance company you've been using since...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: IDEs sweet but beguiling

    A perfect example of this are data modeling tools, which are excellent for logical modeling, but much less useful when it comes to physical modeling and generating DLL scripts.

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Public Data Sets

    Here is another website hosting 10,688 public datasets.

    https://datahub.io/dataset

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Public Data Sets

    The NetFlix Prize database is no longer available, but here is something similar.

    20 million ratings and 465,000 tag applications applied to 27,000 movies by 138,000 users. Released 4/2015.

    http://grouplens.org/datasets/movielens/20m/

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Data for Ransom

    Even if the data I lost was important to me, I would not pay the ransom, because there it's entirely plausible that it's part of a scheme to raise money...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: A Good Use for Hadoop

    During a recent family road trip, my kids asked to keep the iPhone with them in back seat so they could watch NetFlix. Over the course of two days the...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: A Good Use for Hadoop

    Steven.Grzybowski (2/25/2016)


    Eric M Russell (2/25/2016)


    If we divide 1.5 PB (15,000,000,000,000,000) by the total number of global NetFlix accounts (60,000,000), that equals ~ 250 MB (250,000,000) of event data gathered daily...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: A Good Use for Hadoop

    If we divide 1.5 PB (15,000,000,000,000,000) by the total number of global NetFlix accounts (60,000,000), that equals ~ 250 MB (250,000,000) of event data gathered daily per account. Also, if...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: A Good Use for Hadoop

    Kyrilluk (2/25/2016)


    The reason why Netflix needs to conserve all this data is to be able to use some data mining algorithms to predict future movie selection. So the more data,...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

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