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Washington Technical Resources: Scarce Data Problem: Mysterious Indus Valley Script
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People who have seen this also should see these. Tuesday, May 10, 2016. Scarce Data Problem: Mysterious Indus Valley Script. Once upon a time, nearly 5000. Years ago there was an urban Civilization with 1000 planned Cities. Across the North-Western India. It is called Indus Valley Civilization. Most of the cities were along banks of the now dry river and at its peak this Civilization had a population of over five million. The Oldest Writing on Indian Subcontinent. Original Scarce Data Problem. How does i...
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Washington Technical Resources: Microservices: Lego Blocks in Modern Architecture
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People who have seen this also should see these. Tuesday, May 10, 2016. Microservices: Lego Blocks in Modern Architecture. Now I can say I developed Microservices! But what is Microservice? Wikipedia defines : Microservices. Is a software architectural style in which complex applications are. Using language agnostic API. These services are small, highly decoupled and f. Ocus on doing a small task. In short, for each service "Do one thing and do it well". But I like following definition better. Marriage m...
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Washington Technical Resources: Phonetics: 2500 year old Sanskrit grammar in BNF form
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People who have seen this also should see these. Tuesday, May 10, 2016. Phonetics: 2500 year old Sanskrit grammar in BNF form. In last post I talked about the Syntax parsing and special X-Bar theory that applies to the natural languages. In this post we'll start our exploration with 2500 years old grammar in Backus Naur Form and move to internal structure of words and syllables. My mother tongue is Marathi Language. Which is a daughter language of Sanskrit. 3 years of Painful High School Grammar. Human -...
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Washington Technical Resources: My JVM dream, now 20 years later..
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People who have seen this also should see these. Tuesday, May 10, 2016. My JVM dream, now 20 years later. Back in 1996, I first encountered Java Virtual Machine while still in collage. And immediately fell in love. But worse - I got obsessed with it. Obsessed with this crazy idea of writing new languages that targeted JVM. 20 Years later that obsession secretly continues . Fortran Compiler For Java Virtual Machine. We chose fortran because lots of literature available on Fortran. Http:/ www.infoworld...
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Washington Technical Resources: March 2011
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People who have seen this also should see these. Tuesday, March 22, 2011. Speech Technology : Phonology. Ords are formed by series of syllables which re formed by series of phones. In last blog we looked at the Phonetics and how variety of speech sounds are generated. Contrasts, Phonemes and Allophones. Sounds are either 'singable' meaning they are sonorant or not. Vowels, nasals and liquids are singable.All others are not. Sylables almost always have sonorant sound at the nucleus. In a stressed langauge...
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Washington Technical Resources: May 2016
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People who have seen this also should see these. Tuesday, May 10, 2016. Phonetics: 2500 year old Sanskrit grammar in BNF form. In last post I talked about the Syntax parsing and special X-Bar theory that applies to the natural languages. In this post we'll start our exploration with 2500 years old grammar in Backus Naur Form and move to internal structure of words and syllables. My mother tongue is Marathi Language. Which is a daughter language of Sanskrit. 3 years of Painful High School Grammar. Human -...
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Washington Technical Resources: Look Ma, No Locks - Act II - Tunable Consistency
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People who have seen this also should see these. Tuesday, May 10, 2016. Look Ma, No Locks - Act II - Tunable Consistency. The last post described why our industry started using locks excessively in database system to achieve Serializable transactions. The conflict and tension between Availability and Consistency became more serious as days passed by. This post first talks about how the concept of database Isolation Levels. Is actually an early attempt to define Tunable Consistency. P0 - Dirty Read. 8211;...
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Washington Technical Resources: Einstein and Time Travel in Distributed Systems
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People who have seen this also should see these. Tuesday, May 10, 2016. Einstein and Time Travel in Distributed Systems. Exactly 100 years ago this month in Nov 1915 Einstein published his Field Equations and forever changed the physics and our understanding of space and time. His ideas are still relevant in the field of Distributed Systems. This is my tribute to Einstein by showing how his fundamental principles directly apply to distributed system design. First Einstein used the. The greatest achieveme...
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Washington Technical Resources: Syntax: Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
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People who have seen this also should see these. Tuesday, May 10, 2016. Syntax: Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. The basics of Context Free Grammar. The context free grammar is specified by a system of production rules. Starting with a set of terminal symbols, non-terminal symbol and a distinct starting symbol each production rule specifies how to generate a valid sentence in a given grammar. The grammar is generally specified in a form similar to Backus Naur form. LALR parsers on the other hand us...
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Washington Technical Resources: Look Ma, No Locks - Act I
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People who have seen this also should see these. Tuesday, May 10, 2016. Look Ma, No Locks - Act I. I have seen too many people signing up for "SQL vs NoSQL war" without understanding what exactly they are fighting for and more importantly - for whom and for what reasons. This is a first act of the drama that is "SQL vs NoSQL war".enjoy. Opening sequence: Writes, they always conflict. The problem becomes even more severe when transactions are involved. Say you have just two. Z = add(x, y). This is NOT a t...