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See his response on twitter. https://twitter.com/geoffreyhinton/status/165299357072121037...

Mac OSX is equally terrible as is windows by clustering window controls all in one section.

Your first mistake was to use Azure

IMO their terrible performance is the #1 reason not to use their cloud services, and there's usually nothing you can do about it. The less resources they use for each customers the higher their margins.

No thanks. I'm steering clear of their increasingly closed ecosystem

Except it's notoriously flaky. I've lost several save games and support has said everything from I'm lying, it's my router, and ghosting me. Can't use a provider that doesn't take data protection seriously.

While the evidence is light. Is anyone surprised if this is true? My experience is that most cybersecurity firms are only slightly better than other enterprises. They often have lofty standards that they themselves don't follow.

They also have professional service arms that are similar to the rest of the industry. Handful of senior people and an army of junior engineers that bias towards velocity over quality (i.e. take shortcuts that can lead to data exposure and other issues)

Stalling tactic? I don't recall anyone ever being fined over a breach. Sounds like a tactic to escape whatever is left of the news cycle on this.

Exactly. Not to mention they've been found guilty of corruption and bribery in the past. Naturally allowed to continue to operate devices critical to democracy.

[no paywall] Link to full paper: https://sites01.lsu.edu/faculty/zhanglab/wp-content/uploads/...

This is blown out of proportion... actually increase is probably a factor 10-20X, not 100s. The fact that EMR is used is a problem, provisioning, bootstrapping the cluster alone accounts for probably half the time.

The fact that shell commands were run repeatedly means that the data ends up in the OS buffer cache and basically in memory.

I'm not discounting that CLI is faster than Hadoop by an order of magnitude on small datasets. Nor will I dive into Hadoop vs CLI. The answer to all that IMO is that it depends. And in this case, it's not well warranted.

What I do take exception to is the Fox News style headlines that are disproportional to the truth. EMR != Hadoop.