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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods. However, many of these models are highly parametric (i.e.

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

Intel server processors have historically delivered significantly better single-threaded CPU performance and lower power consumption than competing AMD processors since the Intel Nehalem microarchitecture in 2008. I am optimistic that they will have higher single-threaded CPU performance than Intel Cascade Lake-SP processors.

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