Something led me to happen across the following video from google I/O 2010 which gives a full expo (57 minutes) on their BigQuery and Prediction API’s. You can see they have made a lot of ground with ridiculous processing, claiming to be able to run SQL queries (or a derivative) on trillion’s of rows in [...]
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Monthly Archives August 2010
Google BigQuery and Predictions API – Swap data for processing time?
Posted in Business Intelligence, Technology, Transactional SQL, Web Technology
Indie remapping of classic films
A short while ago I read a press release about a software capable of producing 3d models of moving characters from a piece of video, I was certain the link was on reddit but I cannot find it. Anyhow it got me thinking about the uses for this, should it progress to a viable standard [...]
Posted in Ideas, Looking Forward, Software, Technology, Visualisation
Arbitrage Betting – Programmatically finding arbitrage bets
Betting arbitrage, miraclebets, surebets, sports arbitraging is a particular case of arbitrage arising on betting markets due to either bookmakers’ different opinions on event outcomes or plain errors. By placing one bet per each outcome with different betting companies, the bettor can make a profit. As long as different Bookmakers are used for arbitrage betting [...]
Posted in Business, C#, Uncategorized
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