http://mike2.openmethodology.org/bookmarks/ Recent bookmarks posted to OM Bookmarks 60 http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_theory Chris Anderson is essentially arguing against a priori theoretical models, rather using induction that seeks correlations to show us the pattern. A controversial but useful approach! Desmond.brennan Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:50:31 +0000 business intelligence data mining google science http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/hadoop/2008/07/apache_hadoop_wins_terabyte_sort_benchmark.html Hadoop is the type of technology most large Web companies are using to deal with petabytes of data, massive distributed clusters with the file system & database blurring. Whilst Yahoo are mostly responsible for Hadopp it is based on Google's ideas. Desmond.brennan Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:33:53 +0000 database distributed computing google grid computing high performance computing http://www.tdwi.org/News/display.aspx?ID=9104 Got a VLDB that uses something like BLOBs ? Then see this, similar to Hadoop, now 2 other database vendors are implementing MapReduce in a way which will allow low level parallel processing be achieved with relatively simple imperative language. Desmond.brennan Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:56:21 +0000 database distributed computing google grid computing high performance computing http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,39228011,00.htm Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt predicts it could take 300 years to index all the world's information and make it searchable Sean.mcclowry Sun, 18 May 2008 11:24:56 +0000 google news search