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In addition to Lincoln's thoughts I think one of the main reasons bioinformaticians are attracted to Perl is because it is forgiving. Biological data is often incomplete, fields ca…

Some questions to ponder while we all continue to wait for the new NRC rankings: Are the data that will be used in the rankings losing their analytical validity since they will be …

yeah the quality is going to be terrible and your going to hear a lot hissing but it will work!

Two more that come to my mind ... 1. Comparing local and remote files $ ssh user@123.4.5.6 "cat /tmp/remotefile" | diff - /tmp/localfile 2. Outputting your microphone to a remote c…

Today was the first time I have visited SeatGeek and while I haven't used it to make a purchase yet I certainly made sure to add it to my bookmarks. Great service that serves a rea…

Reminds me of an academic project I ran across once that has had a mixed record of success ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat

For a more humorous take on this issue check out http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/07/31/106-facebook/

A main problem for speaker independent automatic speech recognition systems is the variability of the speech signal - i.e. the same sequence of words uttered by different speakers …

Interesting comment on related article by NYT that offers some insight into what type of behavior this bill may be aimed at curbing ... http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/29…

I like this model a lot but what if it was "pay what you can", not "pay what you want"? While subtle I think this change in the verb drastically changes the game. Not only is it mu…

The key/value model embraced by NoSQL databases (Scalaris, Voldemort, Tokyo Cabinet, etc) is the simplest and easiest to implement but inefficient when you are only interested in q…

"Our culture celebrates the idea of the workaholic. We hear about people burning the midnight oil. They pull all-nighters and sleep at the office. It’s considered a badge of honor …

What I find most troubling about this 'dilemma' is that the reach of broadband nationwide is unknown. There is no comprehensive tracking of broadband service, including which neigh…

I thought Michael Lewis' "Liar’s Poker" was describing a world that was ending, not that a world was beginning. And what it was describing, it turns out, is a period in finance tha…

Looking at these techniques I see them all leading towards a series of behaviors that we’ve learnt as kids, and that turn out to be quite useful in tapping into our "creative side"…

Lisp is certainly great, and Clojure looks like a reasonable lisp. I wonder why the JVM attracts untyped languages while .NET attracts typed ones. Could it be that the Java languag…

It's great to see folks providing commercial consulting/hosting/support for CouchDB in the same vein as Cloudera (Hadoop/HBase), MongoHQ (MongoDB), etc! CouchDB is great but don't …