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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Machine Learning

All Things Distributed

Such algorithms operate by building a model from example inputs and using that to make predictions or decisions, rather than following strictly static program instructions. Pintelas, Artificial Intelligence Review 26:159–190 (2006). Machine Learning is playing an increasing important role in many areas of our businesses and our lives.

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Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage.

All Things Distributed

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) was launched in 2006 as "Storage for the Internet" with the promise to make web-scale computing easier for developers. All the complexities of scalability, reliability, durability, performance and cost-effectiveness are hidden behind a very simple programming interface. Durability in Amazon S3.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

most of them are structured as data scientist manuals focusing on algorithms and methodologies and assume that human decisions play a central role in transforming analytical findings into business actions. This framework will later be used to describe analytical problems in a more uniform way. Thomas, 2006. Fano, 2002.

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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

What if we use ClickHouse (which is a columnar analytical database) as our main datastore? Well, typically, an analytical database is not a replacement for a transactional or key/value datastore. This information can be a mix of analytical (OLAP) queries (i.e. Analytical databases are optimized for a low number of slow queries.