Temperatures

Summary: If you’re working with data in Python, learning pandas will make your life easier! I love teaching pandas, and so I created a video series targeted at beginners. There are currently 30 videos in the series.

EDIT 5/10/2016 1:30pm: Several folks from Adobe Analytics/Adobe Marketing Cloud have contacted me, and everything is resolved. I can’t untweet other people’s retweets/shares or delete comments on LinkedIn, but if everyone could stop sharing any more that would be great. 🙂

Now let’s look at the length of the cut L. For this we can use the cosine rule for triangles.

Many of the challenges of using Hadoop with small files are well-documented. But there’s one thing I haven’t seen a lot of discussion about: optimizing the maximum split size for the CombineFileInputFormat and its derivatives (e.g., CombineTextInputFormat). But this is actually a pretty big issue - improper configuration can cause out-of-memory errors or degraded performance.

Update: readers of the post have also pointed out this critique by Ernest Davis and this response to Davis by Rob Bensinger.

Update: through a tweet I found this paper from last year by Luciano Floridi on broadly the same idea. Clearly Luciano’s been thinking about this longer than me. Nice writing, and an additional concept of a AItheist. He uses the term Singularitarian.

A common numerical operation in statistical computing is to compute