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by bbgm 18y ago
Disclosure: Part of my responsibilities at AWS include the AWS Public Data Sets program
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Extracting 10 years of USAspending.gov data into CouchDB(full360.com)
22 points by bbgm 18y ago|10 comments
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by bbgm 18y ago
Thanks for saying what you just did. Although my protein structure prediction days are far beyond me, cycles for projects like these are, for the most part, not going to result in major scientific advancement. In most cases, they are a pr
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by bbgm 18y ago
:-) and given what I've head from Paul on the Gillmor Gang in the past, not a surprise about that particular direction.
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by bbgm 18y ago
I am not sure that's necessary. We've let people know that the loss of room functionality hurts that community. Let's see what happens. Unlike other sites, Friendfeed's betas are real betas, and there have been multiple design changes ju
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by bbgm 18y ago
It's my working folder for all important material and to do that, I needed the extra space. Should try the symlink stuff. That's neat
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by bbgm 18y ago
On the other hand for the life science and research library community, friendfeed has become the de facto watercooler, especially for the computationally inclined. Even to the extent of conference reviews being presented in a journal like
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by bbgm 18y ago
What would you want the content to look like? Sites like <a href=" http://kvraudio.com">KVR</a&#62 ; do a good job of covering the world of software synthesizers, modular synthesis and production techniques, albeit in a very di
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by bbgm 18y ago
Oh they tried NT. Even played with one of those machines. They even looked ugly. They do a lot of Linux now, and have been playing with hybrid architectures. Another bet of theirs that failed were their Altix systems since the Itanium w
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by bbgm 18y ago
Well in a way that's what happened, but that company was Nvidia not SGI, since many of their folks left to join NVidia.
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by bbgm 18y ago
I spent most of grad school with one Octane on top of my desk (my primary machine) and a second one under my desk. Beautifully engineered, rock solid and great for their time. But SGI's steps post about 1998 were just crazy. Windows boxe
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by bbgm 18y ago
Yep, active, heavy and paying dropbox user, but have never been to the website
553.
by bbgm 18y ago
Perhaps. The advantage with programming is that there is a lot of general knowledge that goes beyond languages, etc and even at the language level you have sufficient number of people with general interest. Where you can replicate that it
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by bbgm 18y ago
Long term trend. It's useful in all kinds of ways, from kicking of discussions, near real-time alerts, tracking chatter on topics of interest, and other kinds of activities. Agree that while it might not be Twitter, the trend of lightweigh
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by bbgm 18y ago
The research you end up doing, the collaborations you end up fostering, those are not possible in any other environment. Of course, a lot of learning occurs outside school boundaries, but some very important learning occurs within those wa
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by bbgm 18y ago
Cars are definitely a reason for this. In my own experience, where I do use the car as a place to check how things side, you have to remind yourself that it's not the ideal environment. Or maybe producers today are just lazy
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by bbgm 18y ago
Bioinformatics only caught on around 1999/2000. When I got into the industry there were very few people who knew their way around, especially from the programming side. I've done a lot of nano over the years (before I ever did bio), and th
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by bbgm 18y ago
I definitely do way more important work on Twitter than on Fax machines, and these days probably only behind email. Don't underestimate how useful and fast twitter can be.
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by bbgm 18y ago
Especially when it comes to science. Drove me nuts when I first moved here
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by bbgm 18y ago
I know very few people (that I follow or care about), who tweet all their thoughts. With search tools and things like Tweetdeck, following is not even that important. You follow a keyword, and it works wonders.
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by bbgm 18y ago
The real threat to Wikipedia is over reaction from the powers that be. It's very successful, quite useful, and hopefully isn't going anywhere. Is it perfect, no, but I haven't seen anything at this scale and ambition being 100% perfect.
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Can we bring some fresh blood into HPC?(hpcwire.com)
2 points by bbgm 18y ago|0 comments
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by bbgm 18y ago
I do think that really understanding molecular machinery (known proteins and their dynamic interactions in atomistic glory) and true molecular recognition problems are what we should be doing. That said, we need better physics to represent
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by bbgm 18y ago
It's not even close. Shaw's work is good, but we are still not close to folding proteins from a linear sequence. The physics is just not there
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by bbgm 18y ago
As Alex mentions, unit sales is usually the best way to do this. Have you benchmarked sales figures for similar products as a possible baseline?
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by bbgm 18y ago
In some industries, e.g. life science, publicly funded academic research forms the vast majority of the R part of R&D. The models for commercializing this research need some work, but with the risks associated, long time spans and the
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by bbgm 18y ago
A good adviser is usually more important than the univ you're at, so talk to him, the univ and the other school to figure out what the best route might be. Moving with your adviser to a new school isn't uncommon, so there should be a way t
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by bbgm 18y ago
That was the first thing that jumped out at me as well. One might have thought "change" would get that, but no, it was a balanced speech. Regardless of what happens in the next few years, a great start
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by bbgm 18y ago
No, it's cause you can run Cubase, sit inside a shell, and compile from source on the same machine. Well at least that's why I use it.
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by bbgm 18y ago
Completely agree. Some of the more interesting research goes on in places like Watson Research and IBM Almaden. You need that kind of infrastructure and backing for all kinds of audacious projects.

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