EC2 Performance, Spot Instance ROI and EMR Scalability

by Jesse Anderson | Feb 14, 2012 | Magnum Opus | 3 comments

Update: Be sure to check out my screencast covering this project. Note: This is a very long, technical and detailed discussion of Amazon Web Services. You can watch the YouTube video below for a less technical explanation or skip to the conclusion to get the results....

A Few Million Monkeys Randomly Recreate Shakespeare

by Jesse Anderson | Sep 23, 2011 | Blog, Magnum Opus, Million Monkeys | 2 comments

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;I come to recreate Shakespeare, not to praise him.- Monkey Julius Caesar Update 1: The monkeys recreated every work of Shakespeare and went viral. See the project project postmortem for my thoughts on going viral and what...

A Few More Million Amazonian Monkeys

by Jesse Anderson | Aug 21, 2011 | Blog, Million Monkeys | 0 comments

Update 5: The monkeys recreated every work of Shakespeare and went viral. See the project project postmortem for my thoughts on going viral and what I learned during the project. Update 6: I created a new visualization of the monkeys’ data. Update 4: The monkeys...

A Million Amazonian Monkeys

by Jesse Anderson | Jun 20, 2011 | Blog, Magnum Opus, Million Monkeys | 0 comments

One of my favorite Simpsons episodes has a scene where Mr. Burns brings Homer to his mansion (YouTube Video). One of his rooms has a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters. One of the monkeys writes a slightly incorrect line from Charles Dickens ‘It was the...
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