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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

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Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. Every day Sqreem Technologies (a Singapore company I advise), tracks the digital footprint of 3 billion consumers as they engage with over 150,000 brands, capturing 75% of online behaviors across 40 countries.

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PC For Rent – How To Make Money Searching For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

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A method of solving time-consuming computing tasks by utilizing multiple computers usually united into a parallel computing system is commonly referred to as grid computing or distributed computing. The aggregate computing power of the project is more than 960 TFLOPS. Prime time. Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

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Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. We change the code to have all of the queries identified in step 3 tagged with the apporpriate entity URL that they affect.