Saturday, August 27, 2011

several good articles about hadoop and distributed storage and computing in Chinese

My recent work in company involves Hadoop and large scale computing, especially for machine learning and computer vision problems. I thought this direction will make a big impact onto the community. The followings are a few Chinese article abouth Hadoop, which I feel are very good for beginners. 

Hadoop与分布式计算
Hadoop在Linux下面进行分布式计算
Hadoop以及hadoop应用

Monday, August 1, 2011

a startup for wikipedia-on-the-go

In the recent article

The 20 Hot Silicon Valley Startups You Need To Watch,

one company use the state-of-the-arts computer vision technology to get wikipedia for whatever you see through your smart phone:
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/20-silicon-valley-startups-to-watch#ixzz1TmwXQxvy

I am very glad the recent advances in computer vision are commercialized so quickly.