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by batbomb 11y ago
I'm not sure what that problem would have been, but an integral part (no pun intended) of DEs is expansions. It's not part of a bag of tricks, it's a very common technique used to solve a problem.
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by batbomb 11y ago
Not all data is detector data. This is usually what we'd call Level 0 or Level 1 data. The lower levels aren't usually that interesting for analysis, because they might not be properly calibrated or even reconstructed, depending o
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by batbomb 11y ago
Cosmic rays aren't neutrons, they mostly electrons or muons (and maybe gamma rays). For stopping gamma rays and electrons, 10 feet of water or dirt is a fine for stopping them. So is about 7 feet of concrete, 2 feet of steel or one foo
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by batbomb 11y ago
I came here to talk about this. I deal with data management for a bunch of physics and astronomy experiments it's quite typical to have many millions of files for any given experiment (say, 1PB of storage for a medium size experiment,
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by batbomb 11y ago
The last point is moot. It's extremely straightforward to get a dump of all messages, media, pictures, if you get in.
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by batbomb 11y ago
Well most HPC installation I know are just running RHEL6/7 (except for NERSC which is using Cray linux based on SUSE still I think?) which I wouldn't peg as particularly exotic. The HA thing is know, typically Lustre is just a pie
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by batbomb 11y ago
In HPC/HTC, Lustre is very common, especially in DOE labs. I've never tried to install it, but I don't think my colleagues who have are some kind of special genius.
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by batbomb 11y ago
It doesn't really sound like you've turned your back on the American dream, as low crime neighborhoods are highly correlated with home ownership. Or, put more bluntly, your living scenario is highly correlated with low crime, home
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by batbomb 11y ago
Get a degree in math, physics, biology or chemistry and a minor in CS. Learn databases and write any kind of remote API. Learn how to use a batch system and MPI. Then learn how you can make this ghetto better and look at labs and universiti
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by batbomb 11y ago
The blockchain is a consensus protocol.
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by batbomb 11y ago
Just nit picking, but the DOE is the Department of Energy. The ED or DOED is the Department of Education.
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by batbomb 11y ago
That's because Heinz is perfection.
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by batbomb 11y ago
They were probably running RHEL5, but even in 2014 they would have been in the Production 3 phase which is really should only be used for legacy purposes, and that's definitely not the sort of system you push new software to. Red Hat e
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by batbomb 11y ago
I used to use "syllabus" and a book names/authors to find parallel course material in Google for college. It helped me immensely, because I could find many examples of online lecture notes, exams, homework solutions, and othe
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by batbomb 11y ago
Well the last statement is tautologically true, but yeah. Key Escrow is also impossible to enforce in user space (JavaScript), so unless you only allow signed everything, there will always be workarounds.
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by batbomb 11y ago
You can subpoena google for the calendar and email, Apple for iMessage routing, and the phone company for phone calls and texts. You can even get emergency warrants for that kind of thing. Then you subpoena all those contacts. This idea tha
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by batbomb 11y ago
Or you create a new compression scheme just for Mersenne prime numbers where store the exponent. You'll be able to compress the entire number into just 32 bits for several decades at least!
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by batbomb 11y ago
Except NASA, who basically invented HACCP, would never send raw potatoes up to space.
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by batbomb 11y ago
That's because you've defined area incomes to be incomes for that area, except San Francisco housing is a global market.
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by batbomb 11y ago
I've done more than my fair share of fucking with FITS and ROOT files, HDF5, SQLite, proprietary struct-based things, etc... It's easy to get a file format working on one system. It's Herculean getting it working on all syste
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by batbomb 11y ago
CERN uses ROOT.
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by batbomb 11y ago
The author wrote that article too. The author says he's a teacher, I'd be interested to know if he has children himself.
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Hawaiian court revokes permit for planned mega-telescope(nature.com)
6 points by batbomb 11y ago|0 comments
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by batbomb 11y ago
If you've been around Mormons in your life, this wouldn't really seem that odd.
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BIT Plane – A Project by the Bureau of Inverse Technology (1997)(youtube.com)
1 points by batbomb 11y ago|0 comments
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by batbomb 11y ago
Please don't use CINT. It's good for a few things, specifically histograms, but too many grad student-years have been wasted on segfaults, stack overflows, and cryptic error messages. I haven't had the chance to use cling, bu
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by batbomb 11y ago
I work on the astronomy side of these things (job workflow management), and it's kind of frustrating to develop against a supercomputer. We're still stuck with schedulers and batch systems as opposed to provisioning. If you have a
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by batbomb 11y ago
It's clear that it's city-owned at least to the intersection of the trail and the road that continues on towards the radio station (i.e. the westernmost sharp turn). At some point, the road "disappears" behind the yellow
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by batbomb 11y ago
More interesting is Fritz Warren, although the person in question may be his son: In later life, as a property owner and builder on Wolfback Ridge in Sausalito, he worked to conserve that area in his capacity as Sausalito councilman and may
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by batbomb 11y ago
For processed (cured) meats, they must assuredly mean sodium nitrite (which sodium nitrate turns in to) and/or salt is known carcinogens. In which case, it should be "sodium nitrite known to cause cancer". Also, people should

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