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by jergosh 14y ago
"Another feeling is the Google effect: I know that Europe cannot really maintain a talented team like the one Dom and Dinh Viet would need to take Sparrow to new heights. " Is this a serious remark (honest question)?
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by jergosh 14y ago
Past participant of iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine, the competition mentioned in the article) here. Infuriatingly, this writeup fails to mention that the E. chromi (and all the other projects) was carried out by undergra
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by jergosh 15y ago
As for replacing R, the whole problem is that no-one is really a fan of the syntax but there is an staggering number of packages ready to use. Bioconductor (tools for analysis of biological data: http://www.bioconductor.org/ ) alone is ove
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by jergosh 15y ago
$15k / 250 business days, that would be $60 per day AND they would get the food at much lower prices then you do when you sit in a restaurant. Really? If it was a random company that kind of BS would put me off working there big time.
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by jergosh 15y ago
Only ships to the US? Lame.
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by jergosh 15y ago
Not sure what this proves.
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by jergosh 15y ago
WTH is this doing on HN?
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Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent (2010)(personal.lse.ac.uk)
4 points by jergosh 15y ago|4 comments
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by jergosh 15y ago
As long as it's R that does the heavy liftting, using one of the many Python frameworks along with rpy2 would make the development easier.</shameless plug>
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by jergosh 15y ago
Oddly enough I never really used any of these while studying CS. Now that I'm in bioinformatics, some of the stuff is commonly used, particularly Bayes' theorem and information theory.
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by jergosh 15y ago
Assuming if this would've been reported had it happened before, all it means is 'iPhones have one in 70 million chance of combusting.'
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by jergosh 15y ago
Isn't the 'unsend' feature one of the things Microsoft was trying to achieve with the Trusted Computing malarkey?
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by jergosh 15y ago
Guess they don't want you to search for credit card numbers
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by jergosh 15y ago
I would recommend http://rpy.sourceforge.net/rpy2.html (I'm biased, though ;))
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by jergosh 15y ago
Well, as far as I remember lists (which are used like hash tables, as they associate variables with names, see http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-lang.html#List-objec... ), implement indexing as an O(n) operation. Only after they reac
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by jergosh 15y ago
Even better, reimplement the interpreter with modern data structures...
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"Launchpad", a new part of Mac OS X Lion, is a Canonical Trademark(bugs.launchpad.net)
1 points by jergosh 15y ago|0 comments
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Examples of beautiful Go?(programmers.stackexchange.com)
2 points by jergosh 15y ago|0 comments
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by jergosh 15y ago
tin hats all around!
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Germany to abandon nuclear power by 2022(usatoday.com)
9 points by jergosh 15y ago|11 comments
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by jergosh 15y ago
Not sure about other areas, but judging from these papers, impact of Mapreduce in biomedical field is negligible (2-3 citations for a paper is nothing). No idea why that is -- there's a clear need for parallel computation -- perhaps more tr
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by jergosh 15y ago
Except when you use templates.
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by jergosh 15y ago
This post boils down to "Take C, add support for OO, a crapload of new syntax, standard library that 10x as large and ta-da! you can find problems which have simpler solutions than in C." There's a great post by Linus Torvalds about C vs. C
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by jergosh 15y ago
"You don't know. The computer may levitate." is what they used to say in my C course at the uni.
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by jergosh 15y ago
If you want to match a regexp in Python, you can just say: m = re.match("some_regexp", my_str) You don't need to compile regexps before use but you get better performance if you do when matching the same thing multiple times (no idea if the
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by jergosh 15y ago
I know it's a peril, you tend to know the thing you like best. I'm trying to address it by asking a guy who teaches the Perl course at my uni and other fanboys ;)
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by jergosh 15y ago
Yeah, it's through eval() which is a questionable design decision at best. Regular expressions can be passed as objects in Python, too. Three functions is hardly 'innumerable'. "Perl turns out to be better in all ways, the code is readable,
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by jergosh 15y ago
Incidentally, I'm working on a language comparison which includes Perl and Python and I would be interested to see how Perl string handling is superior. Did you mean speed or syntax or both? I always thought that the Perl way is quite frien
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by jergosh 15y ago
Lisp never became mainstream and if it hasn't succeeded up to now, it most likely never will. D & co. didn't make it either and things aren't going to improve for them. Great point about Cython though, and thanks for the Vala pointer, I
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by jergosh 15y ago
Python is too good a language not to have made it. Google endorsement helped a lot, but they chose it because it's great.

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