Hadoop Map-Reduce is a great tool for analyzing and processing large amount of data. There are a few things one needs to keep in mind when working with Hadoop. This is the simple solution to one possibly annoying problem. Hadoop expects reducers to emit something regularly. If a reducer runs for a long time without […]
Note that the pitfall is limited to MRI (standard Ruby) version 1.9.2. MRI 1.9.3, JRuby and Rubinius does not have this behavior. I have been using Rubinius 2.0 to run machine learning experiments with libsvm lately. When running in Ruby 1.9.2, I noticed that my classifier always classified all samples as negative. I though this […]
Several articles and blog posts have been written about functional Ruby. They tend to focus either on whether Ruby is a functional language or how to do functional programming in Ruby. I am not planning to do either. This post will look into the benefits of a functional approach to Ruby and the transition from […]
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