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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched. I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Besides that, the numbers can vary greatly depending on many factors, so our goal here is just to provide a few benchmarks that give some sense of the magnitude of potential improvements. Konstan, and John Riedl, 2001. SA00] Application of Dimensionality Reduction in Recommender System – A Case Study, B. Karypis, J. Konstan, J.

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