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by micro_cam 14y ago
I often wonder why more small companies don't locate in smaller "lifestyle" cities to facilitate recruiting. I suppose that places like Seattle, Boulder and Salt Lake fall into this category but as someone who just moved from Seattle to rur
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by micro_cam 14y ago
One problem with hiring academics is that they can be far too focused on their subdiscipline as this is necessary to break new ground. An astro physicist might be amazing at identifying peaks in tremendous amounts of data but have no idea h
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by micro_cam 14y ago
I thought the same until a couple coworkers and I got chromeboxes and google io. I don't code or even download images from my camera on it but it lives plugged into a monitor in the living room and the statelessness, fast boot and auto upda
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by micro_cam 14y ago
Proper featurization is a hugh part of working with real data. Datasets in contests tend to have already been analyzed enough to remove all features that are correlated, caused by or predictive of but irrelevant to the target feature. For e
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by micro_cam 14y ago
I'm not a googler but I do know a bit of Math and Statistics and many of the approaches they take can be cleverly reduced to optimization problems or matrix math both of which are more the domain of applied mathematicians then statisticians
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by micro_cam 14y ago
Sounds like you are in the UK (Ordnance Survey) but I wrote a mashup to combine mapping layers and provide other utilities (slope analysis etc) for my own planing of off-road bike, hike and ski trips: http://www.hillmap.com It mostly cove
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by micro_cam 14y ago
I found you don't end up searching for go or golang that much...instead you search the package docs on golang.org or command-f through "effective go" or the language spec both of which are well written and readable.
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by micro_cam 14y ago
Intriguing. The linked article mentions linear regression but this article: http://blog.priorknowledge.com/blog/scaling-not-your-problem... suggests something that handels scale, heterogeneous and missing data gracefully. Maybe Random For
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by micro_cam 14y ago
The biggest surprise for me from this years google io was how much I like and use the chromebox. Chrome os is the best linux desktop distro I've used by far. A fast, stripped down kernel and intuitive, minimal ui and seamless auto updating.
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by micro_cam 14y ago
The registrant is probably an artifact of Superhuman Ventures doing the web work for the non profit on a paid or volunteer basis. Small non profits tend to be pretty disorganized about stuff like this.
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by micro_cam 14y ago
On the surface they feel similar in that they are both quite concise. Concurrency is a hugh difference. Python's approach to concurrency is the "global interpreter lock" which means only one thread can be running at once to prevent you from
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by micro_cam 14y ago
Does anyone know of any US based consumer electronics factories set up to take small-medium sized orders from small companies...say for kickstart campaign funded products like the Ouya?
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by micro_cam 14y ago
Essentially you sequence tons of short bits of dna and then either fit them together (assemble) or fit them to a reference (align). You can find example data sets in the Short Read Archive: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/ Cloudburst (a h
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by micro_cam 14y ago
I think seattle gets more sun breaks then portland thanks to the rain shadow of the olympics and areas like Wenatchee (no tech jobs) and the tri cities (tech jobs at PNNL or working on the nuclear waste cleanup at hanford) get much more sun
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by micro_cam 14y ago
I think that the Bioconductor project ( http://www.bioconductor.org/ ) has also been a big part of R adoption as it has produced a core of well and consistently documented libraries for importing, managing and analyzing biological data that
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by micro_cam 14y ago
I think this area will actually prove to be one of the key differences between AWS and Google's New Compute Engine. I'm not an expert in this area but the technical details of compute engine talk from google io ( http://www.youtube.com/watc
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by micro_cam 14y ago
As a mathematician who made the jump to software I feel that, while there is certainly room for improvement in math education, methods based too much on intuition and feel are a hugh step backwards. Math is about thinking abstractly. To do
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by micro_cam 14y ago
Yep I (Ryan from hillmap) am on here. I also follow kaiuhl's went hiking project on github and think its great that he is tackling the social aspects of outdoors sports in an open source way. I may open source hillmap at some point but the
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by micro_cam 14y ago
We (a group at the Institute for Systems Biology) use it for some cluster management software ( http://code.google.com/p/golem/ ) that coordinates 10's of thousands of core hours most days. The consistency and compactness and fast compilati
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by micro_cam 14y ago
Exercise definitely. I've found that many of my best ideas come to me while exercising. I don't listen to music or anything so it is the most (sometimes only) distraction free time of my day. I've also found that, by bike commuting, I can i
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by micro_cam 14y ago
One of the reasons some sports work so well is that the stop and go/variable intensity nature is much better for you then spending the same amount of time logging low intensity cardio. See studies on "interval training" etc. I bike commute
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by micro_cam 14y ago
If you wish to do something like import a large svn project you will find that git is dramatically faster and doesn't require you to build/acquire svn with swig bindings.
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by micro_cam 14y ago
I agree mostly with your post but there are computational approaches being developed that may help improve our understanding of these cancer networks. They will in no way eliminates or reduce the need for wet lab biology but hopefully it wi
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by micro_cam 15y ago
Evolution does occur in cancer cells in the sense of increased genetic variability which may lead to more aggressive/resistant cancer in a patient. However we won't see things like drug resistant staph infection because the genetics of the
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by micro_cam 15y ago
All this genetic diversity seems daunting at first but I think it is also indicative of something that gives me great hope. Cancer isn't like a virus or pathogen that has evolved to avoid it our immune systems and treatments as it passes fr
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by micro_cam 15y ago
We used it to write our own simple distributed computing software after realizing hadoop was too complicated (and thus bug prone) for our embarrassingly parallel needs. It took us less time to get the system written, stable and up and runni
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by micro_cam 15y ago
See here for back story: http://www.petzl.com/us/outdoor/news-2/2011/02/11/warning-re... I think this counterfeit gear is petzl's main concern though their have been several cases of other companies producing gear that is remarkably simi