Monthly Archives: February 2007

Global Blog Activity Screen Saver

Neat data viz project. Video Demonstration and Download Page

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More on Vertica

The ideas in this paper will be incorporated into the Vertica database product. And unfortunately it won’t be open source. At least that’s what one company employee commented on Slashdot. In the same way that RAID design options (e.g. 1, … Continue reading

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What’s Vertica?

Started by a major contributor to the Ingres and Postgres projects, Vertica is implementing a read-optimized database that is an excellent fit for the data warehouse world. Given the founder’s support of open-source, I expect this company will follow the … Continue reading

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Master Foo Defines Enterprise Data

Master Foo Defines Enterprise Data

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The Singularity Is Near-er

I’m a bit of a latecomer to the Singularity concept. As I understand it, the singularity occurs when technological evolution is able to reproduce human intelligence, likely by simulating a human brain. It must happen, but when? Kurzweil gives a … Continue reading

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