Inductive Bias

Machine learning problem settings

August 6, 2011
Apache Mahout, Science, Theory, Machine Learning

Machine learning problem settings # Together with Sebastian Schelter I held a Nokia sponsored (Thank you!) lecture on large scale data analysis and data mining during the past few months. After supervising a few successful university projects based on Apache Mahout the goal of this lecture was to introduce students to some of the basic concepts and problems encountered today in a world where huge datasets are generally available and are easy to process with Apache Hadoop. ...

Apache Mahout Hackathon Berlin

March 21, 2011
Mahout

Apache Mahout Hackathon Berlin # Last year Sebastian Schelter from Berlin was added to the list of committers for Apache Mahout. With two committers in town the idea was born to meet some day, work on Mahout. So why not just announce that meeting publicly and invite others who might be interested in learning more about the framework? I got in touch with c-base - a hacker space in Berlin well suited to host a Hackathon - and quickly got their ok for the event. ...

Note to self: svn:ignore usage

February 25, 2011
svn, Hacking, cheat sheet, trivia, Note to Self

Note to self: svn:ignore usage # Putting the information here to make retrieving it a bit easier next time. When working with svn and some random IDE I’d really love to avoid checking in any files that are IDE specific (project configuration, classpath, etc.). The command to do that: svn propedit svn:ignore $directory_to_edit After issuing this command you’ll be prompted to enter file patterns for files to ignore or the directory names. ...

Berlin Scrumtisch - February 2011

February 24, 2011
agile, coaching, Scrum, lean

Berlin Scrumtisch - February 2011 # The February Scrumtisch Berlin featured a talk by Lyssa Adkins, famously known for her publications on Coaching Agile teams. A mixture of fifty developers, scrum masters, coaches and product owner as well as one project manager followed Marion Eikmann’s invitation. Thanks for organising the event, as well as thank you to Hypoport for providing the venue. In her one-hour presentation she mainly focussed on two core topics: On the roles agile coaches have to fullfill as well as on the skill set needed by agile coaches. ...

Call for Presentations Berlin Buzzwords - one more week to go

February 21, 2011
bbuzz2011, Berlin Buzzwords

Call for Presentations Berlin Buzzwords - one more week to go # As a little reminder: the Call for presentations of Berlin Buzzwords will close next week on Tuesday, March 1st. Submissions on scalable search, data storage and analysis are all welcome. We are looking for presentations on the core technologies such as Apache Hadoop, CouchDB, Lucene, Redis, Voldemort but also talks on interesting use cases and system architectures. ...

Teddy in Amsterdam

February 20, 2011
amsterdam, Freetime, teddy

Teddy in Amsterdam # On his trip from SFO back to Europe teddy spent a few days in Amsterdam. He brought back the following pictures of bikes, cheese and the canals: Going to Amsterdam usually is pretty darn dangerous: I tend to return with some toys added to my collection of puzzles. Somehow I tend to be drawn to the shop called Gamekeeper selling them even when I do not remember the exact address or even just the street name: