Simon Willison’s Weblog

Finding similar items with Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Python, and Hadoop streaming. Tutorial for running Hadoop jobs on Elastic MapReduce using Python and the 2005 Audioscrobbler dataset.

Posted 7th April 2009 at 9:19 am

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My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup - 9th August 2025
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