It is a fundamental law of nature that in order to gain strength one has to push one’s limits, which is painful.
“Life is random and fucked-up and arbitrary, until you find someone who can make sense of it all for you— if only temporarily.”
― The Silver Linings Playbook
― The Silver Linings Playbook
“The key innovation of MapReduce is the ability to take a query over a data set, divide it, and run it in parallel over many nodes. This distribution solves the issue of data too large to fit onto a single machine.”
― Big Data Now: Current Perspectives from O'Reilly Radar
― Big Data Now: Current Perspectives from O'Reilly Radar
“The future belongs to the companies who figure out how to collect and use data successfully. Google, Amazon, Facebook, and LinkedIn have all tapped into their datastreams and made that the core of their success.”
― Big Data Now: Current Perspectives from O'Reilly Radar
― Big Data Now: Current Perspectives from O'Reilly Radar
“The ability to take data -- to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it -- that’s going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades.”
― Big Data Now: Current Perspectives from O'Reilly Radar
― Big Data Now: Current Perspectives from O'Reilly Radar
“The only way to beat my crazy was by doing something even crazier. Thank you. I love you. I knew it from the moment I saw you. I'm sorry it took me so long to catch up.”
― The Silver Linings Playbook
― The Silver Linings Playbook
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