Category Archives: python

Cloudera’s Hadoop Education

Posted on June 14, 2009 by jay

A while back, after Cloudera released their lectures and VMware image for Hadoop, I watched the training sessions and worked through some of the initial exercises. I must say I was a little disappointed by the videos but I believe … Continue reading →

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CouchDB Performance – Too much TCP

Posted on May 31, 2009 by jay

It’s been a while since I ran my CouchDB performance test, but many of the comments I received suggested that updating my codebase should yield some significant performance improvements. Unfortunately, at the time I didn’t have spare cycles to invest … Continue reading →

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A simple twitter library in python

Posted on April 29, 2009 by jay

I’ve been working on a project built on Google App Engine and I’m relying on twitter to mediate some of the interaction with my end users. What I find great about the growing prevalence of social interfaces is that I … Continue reading →

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CouchDB Performance or Use a File

Posted on March 19, 2009 by jay

If this is the first post you’ve read from my blog you should probably go check some others and assert for yourself that I’m a big fan of couchDB. Even if it wasn’t easy to be impressed by Damon Katz’s, … Continue reading →

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twitterline

Posted on February 20, 2009 by jay

I’ve been using a lot of python, jQuery and web services recently and thought it was time to pull together those skills into a public app. Like most developers, I often “scratch my own itch” and write code to solve … Continue reading →

Posted in code, python, twitter, visualization | 2 Comments

Build your own ioGun!

Posted on January 16, 2009 by jay

I apologize for what will effectively be a brain dump post, but a new friend of mine from the hackaday forums is getting started on his own accelerometer controlled system and I wanted to see if I could save him … Continue reading →

Posted in code, hardware, inspiration, iobridge, opensource, python | 2 Comments

Taking (and keeping) your temperature!

Posted on January 2, 2009 by jay

I swear I don’t have a penchant for medical terminology but this ioBridge stuff is making me feel like that time I stayed at a Holiday Inn… so refreshing, I think I could perform surgery! After my heart hacks (see … Continue reading →

Posted in Google, code, hardware, iobridge, python, visualization | 10 Comments

Training Neural Nets with CouchDB – part 3

Posted on December 4, 2008 by jay

Hopefully you’ve been following parts 1 and 2 and I didn’t leave anyone too confused by my approach. Please visit my posts for a far better recap then I can provide here (DRY); In part 1, I introduced the overall … Continue reading →

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Training Neural Nets with CouchDB – part 2

Posted on December 2, 2008 by jay

It’s always nice to have a little encouragement especially when trying to work through some tough posts. I really prefer white boards and pictures but I find these too hard to make for blogging so I try to let the … Continue reading →

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Training Neural Nets with CouchDB – part 1

Posted on December 1, 2008 by jay

My goal for this post is a bit technical and I’ll try warping both an artificial neural net, as well as my biological one, around an exploration of CouchDB, so read on if appropriate to your interests. As you may … Continue reading →

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