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Monthly Archives: September 2013

Wisdom Comes From Many Places

17 September 2013 · by datapolitan | in Data Science, Learning | tagged cusp, data science, urban | Leave a comment

Yesterday, we got the opportunity to have a guest lecture in our Foundations of Urban Science class from Edward Glaeser. An economist at Harvard, he’s probably one of the foremost experts on urban economics and the urban experience around the world. We got an hour and half meditation on what makes cities important (bringing talented, […]

Numbers Everyone Should Know

16 September 2013 · by datapolitan | in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Originally posted on Everything is Data:
When you’re designing a performance-sensitive computer system, it is important to have an intuition for the relative costs of different operations. How much does a network I/O cost, compared to a disk I/O, a load from DRAM, or an L2 cache hit? How much computation does it make sense…

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