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Steve Jurvetson interviews Jeff Bezos(flickr.com)
2 points by bbgm 16y ago|0 comments
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Opening up personal genetic data (with an API and code)(genomesunzipped.org)
1 points by bbgm 16y ago|0 comments
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by bbgm 16y ago
And in India, where Orkut used to be big, almost everyone I know has migrated to Facebook, so those numbers include a large number of accounts no one is using
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by bbgm 16y ago
Excellent point. What I have never understood is that while the US constitution is relatively robust and, for the better part, has withstood the test of time, it is a document written to reflect the late 18th century, yet for some reason 2
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Programmatic deployment to elastic mapreduce with boto and bootstrap actions(atbrox.com)
2 points by bbgm 16y ago|0 comments
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by bbgm 16y ago
While I think there is some truth in the article, and the lack of innovation in SV, one should probably remind the author that some of the more interesting pure technology startups are still SV based. To pick two close to my interests Comp
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by bbgm 16y ago
My favorite memory of shopping in Vietnam (this was 25 years ago) was the shopkeeper writing down the price on a pad and handing you the pen and pad expecting a counter offer. You usually ended up half way between the two values. That expe
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Overall data center costs(perspectives.mvdirona.com)
3 points by bbgm 16y ago|0 comments
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by bbgm 16y ago
Yes they are supposed to do it differently, at least if they wanted to keep me as a customer. While I use Posterous just for pushing to multiple destiantions (which it does brilliantly), I moved the primary site I was using Posterous for ba
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by bbgm 16y ago
And Robert Gentleman has always been one of the strongest proponents of reproducible research, which includes being able to create packages that can be shared and freely distributed.
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by bbgm 16y ago
I use Git to archive blog posts and other documents. Likely the same for him
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by bbgm 16y ago
Yes. Better (by some margin IMO) than the quality of answers here, and across a wider variety of subjects. The format works better as well.
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When grad students forget safety with hazardous materials(blog.chembark.com)
1 points by bbgm 16y ago|0 comments
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by bbgm 16y ago
No disagreement on those points. I've just spent too much time in the field with people suddenly claiming that protein folding was nanotech.
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by bbgm 16y ago
I've been accused of being too much of a stickler on this, but while the ribosome and other biological machinery are at the nanoscale, but they are NOT nanotechnology. If you use the Drexlerian definition, nanotech much be engineered, which
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by bbgm 16y ago
I actually get a ton of value out of Twitter both personally and professionally (it's a question of who you choose to follow). However, what your expectations from Twitter are shouldn't be the same as your expectations from a blog. It's g
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by bbgm 16y ago
Yep, I used it all through grad school, mostly around framing electronic structure problems and doing spectral deconvolution. For a certain set of problems it's really good especially for prototyping.
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by bbgm 16y ago
The challenge with punditry is that you don't (never?) know the complete picture, just parts of it. Good ones try and extrapolate from "what the hell are they doing" to "these guys are too smart to be doing this without some other less obv
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by bbgm 16y ago
HIPAA is not Apple's responsibility as such. Rather they need to make sure the iPad allows the medical facility to achieve HIPAA requirements.
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by bbgm 16y ago
I was in a similar situation I worked at a startup (which also went under) writing algos to predict protein structures given a minimal set of information (a very hard problem to solve and computationally expensive). Rosetta first showed up
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by bbgm 16y ago
We have a glossy and a high-res Matte and I'd recommend the Matte. The colors are good enough unless you're doing video or design. Definitely get the high res if you can.
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by bbgm 16y ago
Likewise. Also heavily use the four finger swipes (for Expose, and switching between apps). At work I have a keyboard and mouse, but when I want to rotate something, I end up using the trackpad. Can't wait to get this one.
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Serial languages in HPC, why?(scalability.org)
3 points by bbgm 16y ago|0 comments
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by bbgm 16y ago
When you say GPL, do you mean copy left? You could probably use CC-BY-SA for that, but I'd recommend reading this article by John Wilbanks at Science Commons http://scienceblogs.com/commonknowledge/2010/06/open_data_an... as well as the
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by bbgm 16y ago
Movies are much too subjective. 12 monkeys had some fine writing, but the editing, direction, and acting are way better in Inception (IMO of of course). Is it an all time great? Not sure, but it's a darn fine movie
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HPC hits the Cloud (with full bisectional bandwitdh)(perspectives.mvdirona.com)
2 points by bbgm 16y ago|0 comments
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by bbgm 16y ago
No disagreement on any points :)
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by bbgm 16y ago
The reason I posted this particular one is that the author is well aware of the limitations. The reason it's interesting is that 23andme and their ilk do make a certain level of information more accessible, which is not a bad thing, and ho
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An analysis of results from 23andme(nsaunders.wordpress.com)
38 points by bbgm 16y ago|9 comments
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by bbgm 16y ago
Agreed. Many of us who do speak English as a first language ( or are very fluent in it) are definitely closer to RP but for those who pick it up TV etc have a huge influence and that is getting more American

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