100 things we didn’t know last year Interesting and unexpected facts can emerge from the daily news stories and the Magazine documents some of them in its weekly feature, 10 things we didn’t know last week. To kick off 2009, here are some of the best of last year. 1. Victorians believed smoking cleared the [...]
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100 Things We Didn’t Know in 2008
Posted: 31st December 2008 by Sus Scrofa in Economy | Finance, Entertainment, Hot Chicks, Lifestyle, Mother Nature, Oddly Enough, Politics, Randomness, Religion, Science | Technology, SportsTags: 100 things, 2008, archives, facts, knowledge, last year, learn, mcain, what we didn't know, what we learned
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Pig is a platform for analyzing large data sets that consists of a high-level language for expressing data analysis programs, coupled with infrastructure for evaluating these programs. The salient property of Pig programs is that their structure is amenable to substantial parallelization, which in turns enables them to handle very large data sets. At the [...]