{"id":146,"date":"2014-07-02T21:25:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T21:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/?p=146"},"modified":"2014-07-02T21:25:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T21:25:36","slug":"daily-links-2nd-july-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/02\/daily-links-2nd-july-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Links &#8211; 2nd July 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/machinelearningmastery.com\/machine-learning-communities\/\" title=\"Machine Learning Communities\" target=\"_blank\">Machine Learning Communities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/the-paper-trail.org\/blog\/the-elephant-was-a-trojan-horse-on-the-death-of-map-reduce-at-google\/\" title=\"The Elephant was a Trojan Horse: On the Death of Map-Reduce at Google\" target=\"_blank\">The Elephant was a Trojan Horse: On the Death of Map-Reduce at Google<\/a><br \/>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If we are in a data revolution right now, the computational advance that made it possible was not the \u2018discovery\u2019 of Map-Reduce, but instead the realisation that these computing systems can and should be built from relatively cheap, shared-nothing machines (and the real contribution from Google in this area was arguably GFS, not Map-Reduce).&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think people forget what it was like to be arguing for cheap, shared-nothing machines a decade ago. You were looked on as if you were mad. More than mad. Delusional. It was the talk of crackpots because everyone &#8220;knew&#8221; how you built &#8220;proper&#8221; systems. Except they didn&#8217;t. On the plus side I got to see what being thought of as a crackpot was like for a decade!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Machine Learning Communities The Elephant was a Trojan Horse: On the Death of Map-Reduce at Google &#8220;If we are in a data revolution right now, the computational advance that made it possible was not the \u2018discovery\u2019 of Map-Reduce, but instead the realisation that these computing systems can and should be built from relatively cheap, shared-nothing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/02\/daily-links-2nd-july-2014\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daily Links &#8211; 2nd July 2014<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}