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by daemonk 13y ago
Actually I didn't know exonic TF binding was even significant enough to put synonymous codon variation under constraint. I've always assumed it was some sort of metabolic constraint, as in more efficient production of certain tRNA
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by daemonk 13y ago
You are against pointless UI decisions spurred on by javascript. That doesn't mean all UI decisions are pointless. Instead of advocating getting rid of javascript, perhaps it is more sensible to advocate using javascript reasonably. I
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by daemonk 13y ago
Anonymous functions?
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by daemonk 13y ago
He just went ahead and broke the blinding to look up who the scan belonged to? Is he allowed to do that even if he knows it belonged to a member of his family?
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by daemonk 13y ago
Yeah I thought it was about performance also. One thing I've never gotten around to was really look at the d3 code and see how renderings are done. Does D3 re-render on every property change? Or does it save all the changes and render
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by daemonk 13y ago
I think the landing page needs more description of what exactly the product does. Is it meant to be an e-mail service? Or is it a service that you plug your existing e-mail into? Is this kind of like google wave?
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by daemonk 13y ago
I feel like there is probably a lot more going on under the surface than the article portrays.
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by daemonk 13y ago
Sounds cool. Does it scale well? Has anyone used it for a large-ish amount of data (gigs)?
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by daemonk 13y ago
What does tisdesdk offer over node-webkit other than an easier deployment?
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by daemonk 13y ago
Maybe its a place holder for future implementations
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by daemonk 13y ago
College is a pretty damn good resource if you choose to utilize it. Personally, I haven't felt that higher education has actively blocked me from pursuing the knowledge I needed or making resources available to me. The problem is with
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by daemonk 13y ago
Science in its purest form is simply using our fundamental capacity for logic to, as objectively as possible, perceive the world through our senses and instruments. We make observations at low resolution to make correlations and at high res
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by daemonk 13y ago
Are they looking to sell their own hardware? How good are graphics card driver support in linux?
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by daemonk 13y ago
I am a bioinformatician interested in visualizations too. I totally understand your situation wanting to use D3 but can't because of the amount of bio data. I've been trying to develop a toy genome browser as a pet project while p
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by daemonk 13y ago
Command line tools are just faster in a lot of cases and doesn't disrupt your flow as you work on the terminal. However, that being said, I do notice there is a disturbing trend of command line warriors trying to do absolutely everythi
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by daemonk 13y ago
I don't doubt that playing Starcraft will build mental abilities. But if someone is playing Starcraft to become smarter, then they should probably think about other activities that will give you the same benefits in a faster and more d
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by daemonk 13y ago
Academia is run like a business by people with no business or management experience.
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by daemonk 13y ago
Because it potentially encourages using the data in a technically wrong way. What I mean by "wrong" has nothing to do with morality. I mean "wrong" as in people who think they can predict behavior will over-interpret the
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by daemonk 13y ago
Terrence Kealey would disagree: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-economi...
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by daemonk 13y ago
If you are getting your education from only one source of information, then you are doing it wrong. Khan academy is just one source out of many on the web. I personally find their videos to be pretty superficial in content, but a good start
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by daemonk 13y ago
http://vimeo.com/4798314
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by daemonk 13y ago
Nice. I know plenty of biologists who would love to have a simple to use interface for making publication ready figures. Excel just isn't cutting it anymore with the complexity of the data we get today. Hope you guys will still be hiri
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by daemonk 13y ago
Glad to see someone's enjoying it. I think I came out my program more jaded than the average student. I agree that there are intellectually satisfying problems to solve. However, without getting into the tedious debate on the values of
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by daemonk 13y ago
I am graduating phd bioinformatician, most likely going to transition into industry. It's very easy to be caught up with the self importance of academia because you are essentially in a bubble. It's great to be passionate about sc
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by daemonk 13y ago
In a way it's unfortunate that Phil Fish is becoming the poster child for this issue given his controversial public persona. I am not sure if people can dis-entagle his reputation from this real issue.
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by daemonk 13y ago
Omni + Oculus + kinect + horror game = shit a brick. I for one can't wait.
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by daemonk 13y ago
Compression on a intuitive level can be applied to many concepts. Being a geneticist (more bioinformatician now), I sometimes view DNA as a compressed dataset. Let's say we were to somehow define all the information that makes up us as
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by daemonk 13y ago
Big data is a misnomer. Complex data is a better description. Having a terabyte of simple data with 2 columns is really not that difficult to analyze and won't give you much information. Whereas having a few hundred mbs data with compl