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PiCloud followup… bumpy road

Friday, March 12, 2010

I had to crunch some data today, and decided to experiment a bit. It mostly involved lots and lots of Levenshtein ratios. On my laptop it took over 25 minutes to complete a single run (45k rows, several thousand calculations per row) – a bummer when you want to quickly iterate the rules, cutoffs, penalties, [...]

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PiCloud introduction

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

A couple weeks ago my coworker mentioned PiCloud. It claims to be “Cloud Computing. Simplified.” for python programming. Indeed, their trivial examples are too good to be true, basically. I pointed out how the way it was packaging up code to send over the wire was a lot like Pyro‘s Mobile Code feature. We actually [...]

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