Improving performance of appengine mapreduce using batching
At Khan Academy, we run most of our software on Google's appengine and store our data in Google's cloud datastore (a non-relational key/value-like store). If »
At Khan Academy, we run most of our software on Google's appengine and store our data in Google's cloud datastore (a non-relational key/value-like store). If »
I upgraded to Ubuntu 14.10 today. It was mostly quick and easy, except my Dell XPS13's touchpad stopped working after the upgrade -- the hardware »
This week I was introduced to the Elixir programming language. I'm super excited to try it out on a project. It's a scripting language built on »
NMatrix is a high-performance linear algebra library for ruby, currently entering its first beta version. Think NumPy, but for, you know, a sensible programming language. A »
Here's a great piece in Nature on why p-values are not a great idea for science: http://www.nature.com/news/scientific-method-statistical-errors-1.14700. I particularly enjoyed »