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Re: Matrix operations on large datasets
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Ben Pfaff |
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Re: Matrix operations on large datasets |
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Fri, 30 May 2008 13:58:17 -0700 |
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Ed <address@hidden> writes:
> (To avoid polluting the standard thread I copied this part across)
>
>> 2008/5/30 Ben Pfaff <address@hidden>:
>> But I'm not sure why you think that supporting large data sets
>> has to be highly complex. A lot of it is just Computer Science
>> 101 type stuff; for example, merge sorts for efficiently sorting
>> large data sets (which we already implement). What do you have
>> in mind?
>
> I guess I was thinking of matrix operations in particular. I've been
> reading the linear regression code as Jason suggested, and the best
> way to implement linear algebra on a large dataset isn't immediately
> clear to me.
You're right. We do not have any provisions for out-of-core
linear algebra. Whether this is an important omission, I will
have to defer to others.
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