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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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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

Speed Curve

And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. JavaScript is a massive CPU hog, so this is concerning, especially if your users are on older devices with less processing power. (If

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

One year after a Tock release Intel would take that same microarchitecture (with some minor improvements), and use a shrink of the manufacturing process to create a Tick release. The Tick-Tock release cycle basically fell apart by about 2015 , as Intel was unable to move from a 14nm manufacturing process to a 10nm manufacturing process.

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