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I believe you can learn whatever you wish, but depending on your field of study it's pretty hard procuring multimillion dollar machines used in some (chemistry,

I believe you can learn whatever you wish, but depending on your field of study it's pretty hard procuring multimillion dollar machines used in some (chemistry, nuclear sciences, etc) sciences.

rch 16y ago
Um.... http://aws.amazon.com/ http://aws.amazon.com/
- jat850 16y ago
  AWS kicks ass, but it doesn't (yet) offer scanning-tunneling electron microscopes or particle accelerators to the best of my knowledge, which might be what grandparent was referring to?
  - rch 16y ago
    I thought the same thing actually. Then I thought about the wealth of open scientific databases, some of which are already loaded into S3 (ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/blast/db/nr*), and figured that the criteria for learning, in the context of programming, was satisfied.
  - invalidOrTaken 16y ago
    AWS April Fools 2012, I just know it.
    - TillE 16y ago
      If Congress slashes Dept. of Energy funding (which seems likely), RHIC is going offline. Amazon could buy a particle accelerator.
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grinich 16y ago
bribe grad students at MIT/Stanford/Caltech with some pizza there's always a way