- The Toxoplasma of Rage — It’s in activists’ interests to destroy their own causes by focusing on the most controversial cases and principles, the ones that muddy the waters and make people oppose them out of spite. And it’s in the media’s interest to help them and egg them on.
- Samza: LinkedIn’s Stream-Processing Engine — Samza’s goal is to provide a lightweight framework for continuous data processing. Unlike batch processing systems such as Hadoop, which typically has high-latency responses (sometimes hours), Samza continuously computes results as data arrives, which makes sub-second response times possible.
- Design of LISP-Based Processors (PDF) — 1979 MIT AI Lab memo on design of hardware specifically for Lisp. Legendary subtitle! LAMBDA: The Ultimate Opcode.
- rAnomalyDetection — Twitter’s R package for detecting anomalies in time-series data. (via Twitter Engineering blog)
Four short links: 12 January 2015
Designed-In Outrage, Continuous Data Processing, Lisp Processors, and Anomaly Detection
tags: Big Data, cs, design, emotion, hardware, machine learning, open source, programming, research, social software