bugsbunnyak

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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
ASUS n55sf is <$1k from some vendors with 1920x1080 (plus quad core i7, 2 gb nvidia 555m, 8 gb ram)
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
matplotlib (python) is quite good: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/gallery.html another python tool to consider is chaco: http://code.enthought.com/projects/chaco/gallery.php matplotlib is ideal for matlab-style iterative plotting. ch
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Gates Fdn.: immunity assessment tool RFP(gatesfoundation.org)
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
There are probably too many vested interests for that to happen from the top down. One issue the article raises is that the decline would be mostly from the bottom-up as insurance cost and perceived risk respectively diminish high school l
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
Curious: what is this 500k LOC project (if you can say) and how much of that is Python? If it's an in-house codebase that's a really neat datapoint because it would rank among the largest open-source Python projects.. Also, Traits (from Ent
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Genome Compiler (talk at Solve for x)(genomecompiler.com)
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
The Atlantic has an interesting take on this, quite in line with your point about mid-level skills: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/01/making-i... the take-away is that American companies can be, and are, very competitiv
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
Congress as an institution has <10% approval, but most individual congressniks will keep on getting re-elected. "All politics is local", etc. It's never "your" congressnik, except in cases of infidelity or some other egregious media-hou
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
This optimization framework caught my eye: https://github.com/nasa/OpenMDAO-Framework I'm always on the lookout for science-related Python projects from name-brand places, as well as projects that use Enthought's Traits library. (I would
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
Kind of curious: what is mozilla spending (or plan to) all of this cash on? Wikipedia says the MozCo has ~600 employees. Even if they are paying average $200k per person and spending another 80 million on rent, hosting, equipment, etc. that
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
Here's the clearance: http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfpmn/pmn.... As far as I understand, there is a distinction between "cleared" (for sale, as this has been) and "approved" (as in a new type of device). The bar for c
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
So.. they ran mutual information on a correlation network with an window optimizer. Did I miss something? It looks like a neat tool, but how does this rate `Science`? (as anything other than a section in a broad review of non-parametric da
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
This sounds great and increased participation of technically-trained people is sorely needed. There've been some stirrings toward this over here across the (other) pond: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/science/09emily.html?pagew... htt
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
It's not a "traditional gender role", it's biology. >If nothing else, note that women are having fewer and fewer children, later and later - clearly, they are feeling this "natural imperative" less and less. On the other hand, maybe the
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
SciPy is not currently starting up. There were other open-source alternatives to Matlab in 1995, but certainly none with the scope and community of SciPy in 2011. That full-spectrum alternative is not Octave, not now or then. R is a very ni
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
Why? The two technical justifications (objects all the way, and enumeration) in the FLOSS interview [0] are both arguable and not nearly convincing enough to justify further fragmentation of the open-source science ecosystem. If I want clea
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
http://scipy-lectures.github.com/
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
Here's something readable: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/solar-wind/a-...
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
Have a look at suggestions here: http://scipy-lectures.github.com/advanced/optimizing/index.h... By far the most important first-order optimizization is to vectorize your computations.
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
Someone mentioned Enthought. Kitware and Galois are two other prominent examples. Kiware operates on collaborative development and grant subcontracts, and proprietary product dev. Enthought seems to do high-end consulting enabled by rapid d
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
There's a small army of PhDs doing this right now, NIH-funded and in commercial research shops. A radiologist still must look at every single slice for liability reasons for the foreseeable future. That's the real time cost. I work for a ne
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
Another group does it directly from fMRI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20460157 Among the caveats: really high-T magnet, not feasible for general use; the visual stimulus was actually a warped version that would be reproduced as the
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
Just signed up - great so far. One request: make the back of the card resizeable to variable width, or have a preference to make it fit-to larger area within window. Wrapped c++ stubs look even uglier than regular c++!
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
Two collaboration suggestions: Sage: http://sagemath.org/ http://math.chapman.edu/~jipsen/tiddly/tiddlymath.html (related example: http://deferentialgeometry.org/ )
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
Hopefully JS/WebGL will help enable a client-server model for medical image analysis analogous to AWS/Hadoop/etc. JS has been successful not only for its ubiquity, but also because it - warts and all - hits a development sweet spot. Right n
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
I struggled for several hours last night to fix the history of a git-svn repo that had fallen out of sync. Eventually I started to grok it and the fix took all of two commands. I think that this semi-obfuscation may have been an intentiona
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
Disparate impact is orthogonal to education; it's a legal test that applies to employment, in disputes over the direct relevance of a criterion to job performance. This might affect WGU in some 2nd order way if it were claimed that credenti
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
IPython doesn't get you POSIX, but it mitigates a lot of the pain. I run it inside console2 and the experience is pretty good. I have grep, gzip, plink, ffmpeg, and a bunch of other command line programs available from gnuwin32 and elsewher
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
Doing data massaging is IMHO painful in R and Matlab, and this is often a huge part of the code. RPy looks like it has fairly usable syntax (eg seems to support Python-style arguments rather than nasty compiled strings) so I'm hoping I can
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by bugsbunnyak 15y ago
Complete physics curriculum up to research-level, available here from a Nobelist: http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/theorist.html Roger Penrose's "Road to Reality" is great for an overview in one not-so-compact book. It's a bit han

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