Category Archives: General

On Writing Python UDF for Pig: A perspective

Posted on February 24, 2013 by

In this post I show three different approaches for writing python UDF for apache pig. One has to think about generality of the UDF when deciding about which approach to take. Continue reading →

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TextMate + MultiMarkDown + MathJax: The Perfect Combo for Leanpub Authros

Posted on October 27, 2012 by

In this post I show to build a great editor for leanpub publication using TextMate and multimarkdown and MathJax. The solution supports live preview and latex based equations. Continue reading →

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TerminalOMatic: Customizing terminal to be even faster

Posted on September 22, 2012 by

This post shows some of the tricks that you can do make your terminal app even faster and better. Continue reading →

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The Bad Egg Problem

Posted on May 31, 2012 by

Consider a everyday statistical challenge. How many eggs do you need to sample from a box containing one dozen eggs before being 50% or more confident that it doesn’t have any bad eggs. The solution lies in using hypergeometric distribution. Continue reading →

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OPEN SOURCE REFERENCE MANAGER

Posted on March 30, 2012 by

Dear Reference Manager users, I am excited to let you know that I finally took first step towards making the project open source. There are two aspects of the Reference Manager: 1. Server Side that does all the heavy work … Continue reading →

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