Discrete States

Ph.D. student with experience in computational physics/chemistry, distributed systems, algorithms, and bioinformatics.

Sunday, June 22, 2014

Why Not Erlang? The Lack of Onramps

Garret Smith gave a talk titled "Why the Cool Kids Don't Use Erlang" at the 2014 Erlang User Conference . From free-form su...

Friday, April 25, 2014

Big Data (Alone) Won't Save You

One of the pitfalls of the big data "revolution" came to haunt me in one of my current research projects. I'm trying to deve...

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Response to "Math is Not Necessary for Software Development"

Ross Hunter recently wrote a blog entry on Mutually Human arguing that math is not necessary for being a good software developer. I agree ...

Exploring OpenStack Savanna, Parts II and III: Elastic Data Processing

In addition to provisioning Hadoop clusters, OpenStack Savanna can also be used to directly run Hadoop jobs using a feature called Elastic D...

Monday, January 20, 2014

Exploring OpenStack Savanna, Part I: Launching a Hadoop Cluster

I recently started playing with OpenStack Savanna, a service for provisioning Hadoop clusters on top of OpenStack. Savanna makes it easy to...

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