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I usually don't post link to posts in Hebrew because the audience is limited. This time I decided to make Hebrew Special. I appreciate people writing about technology in Hebrew…
In memory of Udy Brill pypi analysis - this posts starts with some technical issues, e.g. how to scrape pacakge dependencies from pypi packages and goes on to showing a graph of…
- Spark, EMR, Lambda, AWS·1 min
I know the title of this post looks like a collection of buzz words but there is code behind it. AWS Lambda function is a service which allow you to create an action (in this…
Caffe On Spark - if it pretty clear that on of the next steps for Spark MLLib is to add deep learning. There are several deep learning frameworks out there and I guess few (if not…
Almost 5 month ago AWS exposed a new service - “Elasticsearch service”. So we can now have a managed elasticsearch cluster and we can have Kibana on it without the hassle of…
Ads @ stackoverflow - Steve from Stackoverflow ad managment team explains their view about ads on the site. This is a very user centric approach along with strong branding and…
Since I didn't know anything about Apache Cassandra (beside being a distributed database) I could probably replace the 8 in the title to any number.. Here is a summary of few…
- Swiss Python Summit 2016·3 min
I participated in Swiss Python Summit today , where I gave a talk about "Python's guide to the Galaxy". Code and slides are available in my GitHub . All the talk were recorded and…
Top 30 books ranked by total number of links to Amazon in Hacker News comments - I must say this analysis surprises me. First because of the low numbers - most common book was…
Everything.me open source their inheritance - Everything.me was an Israeli startup closed few weeks ago. They now open source major parts of their code and tools including their…
I was on a visit in Israel and went to " Surviving Black Friday & Turning Behavioural Signals Into User Profiles " meetup. It is a very long name which actually implying on 2…
Systemml - distributed and declarative machine learning platform. Looks like a promising project which now joined Apache Software foundation and was initially developed by IBM. I…
Improving My CLI's Autocomplete with Markov Chains - Markov chains are the basis for many auto-complete algorithms we know and use on daily basis, e.g keyboards on mobile devices.…
K-nearest-neighbors is a very well known classification algorithm. It is based on the phrase - "show me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are". Apache Spark MLLib…
Counting things in Python - This post spotlights very nicely and simple how Python and Pythonic writing changed over the years. One of the interesting things in this post is the…
Whatsapp CLI - control you server using Whatsapp. The next step for me is to connect my home (heating, lights, doors) and control it via Whatsapp. To be honest I assume that some…
- AWS loft Berlin·2 min
This week Amazon opened a loft in Berlin which is suppose to be open for 4 weeks. The loft is currently on pilot and there are several other lofts around the world. I think it is…
Restaurants recommendations - I read quite a lot about recommendation systems lately and I love this post because it talks about a restaurant domain while many of the posts…
- #dmconf15·4 min
I got a free ticket to distributed matters conference winning the challenge of the python big data analytics meetup group. The line up was impressive (including Kyle Kingsbury…
Density based clustering - the clearest and most practical guide I read about density based clustering. http://blog.dominodatalab.com/topology-and-density-based-clustering/ Word…
Time map visualization of discrete event - Very good idea for visualization of discrete events when the order of events is not important but rather the general pattern. Good to…
- Apache Flink workshop·2 min
On Wednesday I took part in " Stream Processing with Apache Flink ". The workshop was hosted by Carmeq and was super generous. Apache Flink is a distributed streaming dataflow…
Best programming language ever!!!!!1 - I really agree with this guy approach and the way he presents it. No better tool but better choices.…
I usually don't find those ranking very interesting but Redmonk ranking which compares between programming languages' popularity on GitHub (by projects) and popularity on Stack…
The question I started with, as the title states, was quite simple - "is python random really random"? Let's divide the question to two - python random and really random. Python…