Category Archives: hadoop

Traveling Salesman Attack! (Hadoop and Genetic Algorithms)

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Brad

For one of my “coffee projects” (things I work on for about 20-30 minutes each morning to warm my brain up and stay amused), I wrote a genetic algorithm attack on the Traveling Salesman problem. Because I’m a Big Data … Continue reading →

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Ruby/Hadoop talk on Tuesday

Posted on March 8, 2009 by Brad

A note for interested parties: I (Brad) will be giving a short (10-15 minute) talk on using Ruby with Hadoop for distributed computing. The plan is to give an ultra-brief description of the MapReduce algorithm and Hadoop, show 2 examples … Continue reading →

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