has $6B endowment

This work is high impact for low effort (relative to carbon removal and sequestration), ready to deploy today, and largely overlooked. This type of effort is crucial to address — as fast as possible. I'm really happy to see this.

Right now, just "number of nodes". But that's definitely something we'll be adding soon.

We actually built on EC2, not Elastic MapReduce. Invoices come from Mortar only -- that way when we can achieve bulk AWS savings, we can keep our cost lower.

I'm glad it looks awesome, thanks!

Oh, great to know that, thanks!

I had the same thought at first -- next time, make sure the text is bold enough to be legible at 320x240. Once I maximized the vid it looked great, of course.

Oh thanks for asking that -- it takes about 30s to illustrate the million song set; we're working to make it faster!

And also, if you haven't seen musicmachinery.com, do check it out.

Wow, this is a great resource. Thanks for sharing.

I was just going through their archives trying to answer my question and found a great discussion on this post:

http://musicmachinery.com/2011/05/14/how-good-is-googles-ins...

There are some insightful comments from names I recognize from my research.

Thank you, I appreciate the feedback.

Thank you! There is a link to request an invite at mortardata.com -- if you'd like access, let us know. We just got a lot of invitation requests from this post, but we'll invite you as soon as we can.

I love that open source mentality (sharing and collaborating for the love of the work, community, and result) is reaching higher ed. I can't wait for it to reach lower ed! If kids start seeing this model at a young age...