Welcome to my web site, an expanding world wherein you can read my weblog about programming, Digital Digressions. I use this blog to explore topics of computer science, particularly programming languages, from the perspective of the casual or hobbyist programmer.

As for me, I am a young artist / actor / programmer / designer / secretary currently living and working in New York City.

Currently I am the Assistant Director of the Program on Law & Technology at Columbia Law School, where I work on lots of fun projects like AltLaw.org, the free legal search engine.

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EC2 Authorizations for Hadoop

May 14th, 2008

I just did my first test-run of a Hadoop cluster on Amazon EC2. It’s not as tricky as it appears, although I ran into some snags, which I’ll document here. I also found these pages helpful: EC2 on Hadoop Wiki and manAmplified.
First, make sure the EC2 API tools are installed and on your [...]

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