Month: October 2009
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The Amazing Math Challenge
Students are falling behind in math skills
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PC World confused about Bitness
Weakly-support assertions and terribly reasoned arguments
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The Art of Failing Early
What if we could fail early?
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Thinking about Large Data an Scale-Out
Adam Jacobs wrote an article, which I believe was first published in Queue, paper called The Pathologies of Big Data, which looks at — you know — big data. The title begs the question of what “big data” really is, and the author doesn’t ignore that. Without saying it explicitly, he points out that the…
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The Windows Server Standard memory limit on newer machines
Will Microsoft update their artificial boundary as physical architectures change size?
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A study about DRAM errors
A report about memory errors tell us that temperature isn’t important, but memory error rates are higher than most would otherwise believe.