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There are no cmp, branch instructions. How is this turing complete?

I think Makefile have such pattern matching, which can be utilized to do such list transformations too.

How differently is linear regression than PCA? I understand the procedure and methods are completely different, but isn't linear regression also going to give the same solution on these data sets?

I am guessing you went for a graduate degree in math. How hard was it to get admission? Would you like to recommend some good schools for doing something like you did. I am just a little younger but hungry for math knowledge.

The author has won an IOCCC contest. This would have just pricked him a bit.

Could you elaborate more or give some references on the second and third part? I am done with the first. I seriously need some profound knowledge on second and third, which a lot of people like you talk about. I need to put a plan to get there too. Scheme to C looks fun though :-) . Where should I start first with?

I often read that spark avoids the costly synchronization required in mapreduce, since it uses DAG's. Can someone explain how is that achieved. If the application so demands that you can launch jobs together, that can be done even with hadoop/mapreduce. If one job requires the output of another, then the job has to wait for synchronization whether its mapreduce or DAG.

Good question. I did read the spark paper, and one reason that I found for spark doing so much better than hadoop was that it avoids the unnecessary serialization, deserialization which hadoop just can not avoid. The RDD's as mentioned by @rxin, are in memory objects and thus do not require frequent serialization/deserialization when multiple operations are being applied to data.

I am not well-versed in the browser designs, could you highlight what hard problems are you referring to?

If Rust doesn't allow pointer arithmetic and conjuring up a pointer using '&' like in C, it doesn't make me feel there is anything special here.

I am waiting for someone to prove, solving procrastination problem is NP-Complete

Correct me if I am wrong here. So, instead of the eloquent method of using GET, POST and PUT on resources, the current practice is about the programmer writing custom parsers to get the information they want and then use them accordingly.

Read only access!! ROFL

These guys always forget "Its never a Million Dollar Idea, its a Million Dollar Execution"