AWS Redshift: How Amazon Changed The Game

A good blog post on Amazon RedShift - their Postgres-based massive data warehouse. Some good analysis on performance and costs: 

http://blog.aggregateknowledge.com/2013/05/16/aws-redshift-how-amazon-changed-the-game/

Vancouver Training: Introduction to Data Mining and Predictive Analytics with RapidMiner - Save $500

I'll be teaching a RapidMiner course here in Vancouver next week:

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 8:30 AM - Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 5:00 PM (PDT)

Details here:

http://rapid-i_us_20130423-eorg.eventbrite.com/

Save $500 with the coupon VAN_BLOG !

Google's Data Mining Research Papers

In case you missed it, here are Google's 104 data mining research papers:

http://research.google.com/pubs/DataMining.html

The Google F1 slides

Google F1 is a relational database query engine that works on top of Google Spanner, which is a distributed storage system that sits on top of Google File System. Got it? :)

Basically, it's a really big, distributed relational database, and Google is using F1 to replace MySQL for Adwords.

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs347/slides/f1.pdf

Chomsky on Where AI Went Wrong

If one were to rank a list of civilization's greatest and most elusive intellectual challenges, the problem of "decoding" ourselves -- understanding the inner workings of our minds and our brains, and how the architecture of these elements is encoded in our genome -- would surely be at the top. Yet the diverse fields that took on this challenge, from philosophy and psychology to computer science and neuroscience, have been fraught with disagreement about the right approach.

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The father of fractals

A nice little piece on Mandlebrot in the Economist:

http://www.economist.com/node/2246127

As I predicted, Self-driving cars a reality for 'ordinary people' within 5 years, says Google's Sergey Brin

Link here: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9231707/Self_driving_cars_a_reality_for_39_ordinary_people_39_within_5_years_says_Google_39_s_Sergey_Brin