April 2015 - Ravi Desai

Machine learning with Apache Spark

Installing Apache Spark on Ubuntu Download from the project page. Unzip into a directory. For example, I put all my custom stuff in `~/bin`. Add the bin directory of the exploded tar-file to your PATH variable. Running `which spark-shell` should point to the correct path. Restart your shell if it doesn’t. Books Fast Data Processing […]

Getting back to machine learning

In the last few months I’ve gotten back to working on AI. I was talking to a co-worker of mine about the pleasance project, and doing that got me bit by the bug again. I’ve had my new multicore desktop computer for a while now, and I should use it for parallel processing problems. Pleasance-jruby […]