Installing hadoop/hive on ubuntu

If you are a hive noob like me, this post may be of use to you. I just wanted to install hadoop/hive on my ubuntu (on a dell) box, so that i can run hive (hive -e “”) commands from eclipse, before I commit the python scripts.

Papernotes: Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Observer Error-Rates Using the EM Algorithm

Oops, I just forgot to save my notes as draft. Will come back to it later since this seems to be a very important paper. And something I found hard to grasp.

Approximate Stream Algorithms

The following paper by Motwani et al gives couple of algorithms for computing frequency counts exceeding a user specified threshold over data streams.

1. Sticky sampling.

Paper Notes: Discovering Human Places of Interest from Multimodal Mobile Phone Data

Notes from reading the below paper.

Paper Notes: Learning from Crowds

Notes from the above named paper by Raykar et al.

Disabling 3D unity desktop on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

I have started using Ubuntu again after 2.5 years. I started using a new installation of 14.04 LTS on a somewhat old box.

But I had forgotten to disable 3D unity desktop and suffered for few weeks. Ubuntu default…

Software System Design — reading list

1. The NoSQL Ecosystem