Since the time I started programming using Scala, I’ve vehemently tried to adopt the paradigms of functional programming as much as possible. Recently I had to work on a recursive piece of code and my architect suggested me to use something known as Tail Recursion instead of Traditional recursion and this blog talks all about…
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Last Month I had the opportunity to design a content recommendation system and I decided to go with BigData due to the scope of the problem. After successfully implementing it and running it on a training dataset consisting of around 2.8 million ratings given by 73,000 people spread across 1600 movies, I’m about to share…
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From 64 hours to 300 seconds !!!That’s the sort of runtime improvement I was able to achieve by using Arrays as the primary data structure & reducing the time complexity from n3mC1 to n*m in a clustering algorithm I improved. Now this post is a bit lengthy & do I recommend going through the entire post to understand…
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Kartik Iyer 