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by siganakis 12y ago
I have a pair of AMD Radeon 5700 Series cards (apparently released in 2009!), which seem more than up to the challenge. One thing to consider is that with 2 graphics cards, you needs at least a 550W power supply (I had a 500W power supply
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by siganakis 12y ago
You are quite right, it is a ridiculous metric that doesn't stand up to any scientific rigour. The article was just supposed to be a bit of fun about my personal experience with different monitor configurations. I thought that this mi
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by siganakis 12y ago
I think that I would prefer 2 landscape (one on top of each other) then 2 portraits on either side. The problem is in getting the mounts to make it all work properly. Also, HN seems to have dropped the "∝" symbol from the title!
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Are Pixels Productivity? A study 24 years in the making(msgooroo.com)
16 points by siganakis 12y ago|7 comments
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by siganakis 12y ago
This is somewhat similar to something I have been working on at, but which is focussed more on finding the right "next move" within the technology industry. Essentially you rank your skills based around enjoyment and experience an
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by siganakis 13y ago
The problem with succinct data structures (and wavelet trees especially, but also rank-select dictionaries) is that while they have excellent performance characteristics when you look at them from a theoretical perspective, they tend to per
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by siganakis 13y ago
Is it possible to move data around between languages / engines? E.g. would it be possible to run a query against Red Shift (step 1), then cleanse it in Python (step 2), run R scripts over the Python output (step 3) then dump the result
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by siganakis 13y ago
Not even sure that the number of ways that a genome can be mutated is even finite. Genomes can be mutated not just by the substitution of single base pairs, but also by introducing copies, through deletions, translocations and insertions.
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by siganakis 13y ago
Just a heads up, http://designmodo.com/flat/ crashes safari on iPad (ios6).
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by siganakis 13y ago
No. Micro-array analysis (as opposed to the Exome sequencing they are starting to offer, which may be useful for BRCA diagnosis) focusses on frequently occurring single nucleotide polymorphisms (substitution of one base for another). The m
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by siganakis 14y ago
I've been waiting for my backup email for over a week. Pretty sure it's just a pretty button with no code behind it.
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by siganakis 14y ago
+1 for this! When I first started with golang I too was flailing around with deadlocks, but once you have spent a bit of time with it, it becomes obvious when you have messed up. I think that this is more of a lack of familiarity with the l
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by siganakis 14y ago
From the article: "This new threshold applies only to petitions created from this point forward and is not retroactively applied to ones that already exist." So the Ortiz petition will be unaffected.
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by siganakis 14y ago
Why would the DoJ require that MIT "sign off" on the plea deal? As this was a criminal matter, I thought it would have just been between the government and Aaron. Or does the DoJ have to get approval from victims before offering a plea dea
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by siganakis 14y ago
There are a huge number of genes which are known to be transcribed (as mRNA) and turned into proteins, but we have no real idea as to what these proteins actually looks like, or what their function may be, for example [1]. If we knew their
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by siganakis 14y ago
+1 for the Pentel P205, it's by far the nicest pencil I have written with, and for well under $10. Writing with pencil, especially when working through a problem, lets me work more effectively. Knowing you can erase something gives you a s
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by siganakis 14y ago
But then you have the new problems of what plugins to include by default, how users discover plugins and how they are configured. Plugins, while valuable for people willing to take the time to learn about your product's eco-system are unlik
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by siganakis 14y ago
> Murder is banned. He committed more than twenty murders. Why do people think that you can ban mental illness? The focus on guns as opposed to the person is similar to the TSA's focus on weapons vs. terrorists. Of course you can't ban
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by siganakis 14y ago
If competence is absolute, then there should be some way that you can objectively measure it (otherwise how do you know its absolute?). What are the ways to objectively measure the competence of a programmer? If that was the case, then it w
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by siganakis 14y ago
He wanted to study "pure" maths, not applied: "Moscow had many schools, but there was only one place to study pure math: Moscow State University, known by its Russian abbreviation MGU, Moskovskiy Gosudarstvenny Universitet. Its famous Mekh-
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by siganakis 14y ago
I think that the bigger problem is when people begin using "social networking" while they are actually doing the intimate, stimulating, exciting things in real life - either looking for validation or because its easier to bury your head in
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by siganakis 14y ago
But to prove that you need to show that there exists a neotenous trait that improves sexual selection. Then you need to prove that the lactate gene is in linkage disequilibrium with that gene (thus capable of being "coming along for the rid
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by siganakis 14y ago
I used it for a complicated round the world itinerary. My first competition didn't get any takers ending with no flights, but I contacted support and they re-ran it and I got about 8 different itineraries - all cheaper than expected. Funnil
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by siganakis 14y ago
Data should not be organised based around retrieval or insert / update patterns but organised according to the model that best captures the essence of what the data is. That may sound fluffy, but most of the time data captured is captured f
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by siganakis 14y ago
Also of interest is the observation that Ketamine (and PCP) are associated with NMDA Antagonist Neurotoxicity (Olney's Lesions), a form of brain damage. Not really something you should want to self medicate with at this point until more res
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by siganakis 14y ago
Essentially they end up rebuilding the "transaction log" that most RDBMS's use to commit data safely. Before any data is written to the "data" files of the database, it is written to a "log" file sequentially. Once that has succeeded, it w
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by siganakis 14y ago
It does seem like a lot of work to me. One of the problems is servicing two workloads, one for "transactional" processing and another for analysis. For transactional systems you need to be able to change things quickly and consistently. Fo
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by siganakis 14y ago
There is a world of difference between a physical working prototype and product that you can deliver in commercial quantities. I guess Kickstarter is aiming to fund physical projects that already have a working prototype and require funding
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by siganakis 14y ago
The simulation/rendering rule is only for "Hardware and Product Design Projects", not software.
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by siganakis 14y ago
I think that there is a tension between "creepiness" and "effective marketing". This I feel is one of Facebook's core problems, where for them to maximize the value of their dataset, their ad targeting becomes incredibly creepy. One issue

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