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There’s a lot of hype about “big data” and a general trend to try to apply Hadoop to almost every problem. However, sometimes it turns out that you can get much better results by writing an old-fashioned, but optimised, single-node version of your algorithm. The specific case I’m writing about is generating recommendations (what items […]