And we can double storage efficiency by using two stacks! Clearly, they need to hire one of us.
Re:At least they're not rolling their own.
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The DNA Data Deluge
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I can't comment on the physics data, but in the case of the bio data that the article discusses, we honestly have no idea what to do with it. Most sequencing projects collect an enormous amount of useless information, a little like saving an image of your hard drive every time you screw up grub's boot.lst. We keep it around on the off chance that some of it might be useful in some other way eventually, although there are ongoing concerns that much of the data just won't be high enough quality for some stuff.
On the other hand, a lot of the specialised datasets (like the ones being stored in the article) are meant as baselines, so researchers studying specific problems or populations don't have to go out and get their own information. Researchers working with such data usually have access to various clusters or supercomputers through their institutions; for example, my university gives me access to SciNet. There's still vying for access when someone wants to run a really big job, but there are practical alternatives in many cases (such as GPGPU computing.)
Also, I'm pretty sure the Utah data centre is kept pretty busy with its NSA business.
That's a good counterpoint—although, just to play devil's advocate, it could be argued in that case the blame belongs to the medical practitioner who assumed there was nothing wrong with you and didn't re-run all the relevant tests. Medical histories are more or less context-free these days; if something's still relevant, it can be re-discovered. Except perhaps mental illness, since we don't have the same quality of diagnostic tools for psychological profiling.
I think you've got the question backward—it's "How can DRM kill you?" to which the answer is "metaphorically" with the possible post-script "it's a bit too late to protest hyperbole."
This happens occasionally in animal breeding. Blue eyes in a white-furred cat has a high chance of indicating deafness.
That being said, however, the definition of "proper" biochemical function is relative, so you can't really say that a developmental gene that produces healthy results is really malfunctioning. A lot of subtle differences between people are caused by changes in how long or how tightly two proteins interact. You could call the European light skin phenotype evidence of a defective gene, because it's defined by a shortage of melanosomes, which protect the body from UV light. (On the other hand, it improves vitamin D production, which requires UV light.)
There are even plenty of cases in the human body where healthy behaviour depends on what should be, by all rights, improper gene function: the cervical plug is made up largely of malformed virus particles (just the shells) which our ancestors commandeered millions of years ago. Without this strange adaptation, most pregnancies would fail. The attached placenta also owes its heritage to viral genes; without it, newborn human babies wouldn't be much larger than newborn rats.
By far the most expensive part of the process was donated by Illumina, a company which makes gene sequencing equipment and accepted his family as a test group. That probably would have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. (The summary's misleading; he only prepared the samples in his basement. The sequencing equipment was bleeding-edge.)
As Xeno man said, the real treasure this fellow had was his knowledge of molecular biology and biochemistry, although as a player in the biotech industry his connections weren't insignificant.
No, no, not BCD, ASCII decimal. BCD's been ubiquitous in instruction sets since the early sixties, I'm pretty sure. The imagined horror is doing all that math with 0x30 ORed onto everything.
...I was joking, but it's called AAA. bws111 is a bit wrong (I think?); unpacked BCD still uses 0x00 to represent 0, not 0x30. You have to do an extra operation to go between ASCII and unpacked BCD.
"Requestors" – people who want to query the data maintained by ARDS – would have to apply for the right to access domain information.
Basically, they'd be extracting a licensing fee from the current people you go to for WHOIS lookups. Arguably this could be called "killing" WHOIS since it means taking away its... free spirit.
(FWIW, the high-profile accusations of Stasi-like behaviour implied that the rest of the world was being treated like East Germany much moreso than the US itself. Keep in mind that while the NSA may be retaining metadata, they have carte blanche to the same information in every other country. So much for the Pledge of Allegiance.)
That being said, as a Canadian who's visited the US several times, they just don't care. They're too busy to scour everyone's mobile devices. As long as you don't look like you might be Muslim or a specific individual on their hit list, you won't even be subjected to anything more than backscatter and removing your shoes.
Nothing left; I'm satisfied. Except perhaps that I think you need to use more critical reasoning when browsing Wikipedia. Different areas have different ambient levels of quality; they're not all rubbish. Reasonably unobscure articles in the life sciences tend to be very if not completely reliable, simply because there's nothing to manipulate and they're above the reading comprehension of most vandals.
Aha! Yeah, never do that. In perl, this behaviour of the short-circuiting || (or) operator was noticed, so they extended the return value to provide a freaky combo if statement inspired by the ternary operator. It's simultaneously brilliant and revolting, like most things in perl.
If you think these processes should all be sped up you may want to reduce your ability to produce melatonin.
Evolution sure does. It's set up that way for a reason: shorter life expectancies during times of abundance yield a more rapid mutation rate. This is the sublime hand of God's design in action. (What a great guy, eh?) It's immensely futile to be upset about our hard-wired suicidal tendencies, since they're supposed to clear space for our children—but feel free to rewrite them, if you really think it's best for the world.
Jennifer Anne Luke did her phd on the accumulation of Fluoride in the pineal where it accumulates to levels higher than even the bones over 1000-10,000+ ppm, as a universal enzyme inhibitor it greatly reduces production of melatonin.
Only until puberty—Luke's thesis abstract states that after that, melatonin levels return to normal, although the onset puberty is certainly accelerated.
You may have heard that children are reaching puberty at abnormally young ages in many parts of the modern world.
I sure have—but don't forget that there are other implicated causes, like BGH in milk and xenoestrogens (such as from plastics.) If Fluoride really can be implicated in an epidemic of precocious puberty, then there must be some other variables; it's too widespread to fit the data.
HEAD KNIGHT:
Augh! Ohh! Don't say that word. ELASHISH14:
What word? HEAD KNIGHT:
I cannot tell, suffice to say is one of the words the Knights of SI cannot hear. ELASHISH14:
How can we not say the word if you don't tell us how many mebibytes it takes up? KNIGHTS OF SI:
Aaaaugh! HEAD KNIGHT:
You said it again! ELASHISH14:
What, 'it'? KNIGHTS OF SI:
Agh! No, not 'it'. HEAD KNIGHT:
No, not 'it'. You wouldn't get vary far in life not saying 'it'. KNIGHTS OF SI:
No, not 'it'. Not 'it'.
Yes. They have the strength of a million normal dollars. Personally, I welcome the newest addition to the SI unit family. (What could be more ironic than the addition of a highly-variable American currency to a French system intended to be as constant as possible? Nothing, friends. Let us rejoice.)
Fun science fact: it takes twice as much MSG to kill a rat than it does salt if you count by number of molecules, and 5.5x as much if you count by mass.
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And we can double storage efficiency by using two stacks! Clearly, they need to hire one of us.
I can't comment on the physics data, but in the case of the bio data that the article discusses, we honestly have no idea what to do with it. Most sequencing projects collect an enormous amount of useless information, a little like saving an image of your hard drive every time you screw up grub's boot.lst. We keep it around on the off chance that some of it might be useful in some other way eventually, although there are ongoing concerns that much of the data just won't be high enough quality for some stuff.
On the other hand, a lot of the specialised datasets (like the ones being stored in the article) are meant as baselines, so researchers studying specific problems or populations don't have to go out and get their own information. Researchers working with such data usually have access to various clusters or supercomputers through their institutions; for example, my university gives me access to SciNet. There's still vying for access when someone wants to run a really big job, but there are practical alternatives in many cases (such as GPGPU computing.)
Also, I'm pretty sure the Utah data centre is kept pretty busy with its NSA business.
That's a good counterpoint—although, just to play devil's advocate, it could be argued in that case the blame belongs to the medical practitioner who assumed there was nothing wrong with you and didn't re-run all the relevant tests. Medical histories are more or less context-free these days; if something's still relevant, it can be re-discovered. Except perhaps mental illness, since we don't have the same quality of diagnostic tools for psychological profiling.
I think you've got the question backward—it's "How can DRM kill you?" to which the answer is "metaphorically" with the possible post-script "it's a bit too late to protest hyperbole."
This happens occasionally in animal breeding. Blue eyes in a white-furred cat has a high chance of indicating deafness.
That being said, however, the definition of "proper" biochemical function is relative, so you can't really say that a developmental gene that produces healthy results is really malfunctioning. A lot of subtle differences between people are caused by changes in how long or how tightly two proteins interact. You could call the European light skin phenotype evidence of a defective gene, because it's defined by a shortage of melanosomes, which protect the body from UV light. (On the other hand, it improves vitamin D production, which requires UV light.)
There are even plenty of cases in the human body where healthy behaviour depends on what should be, by all rights, improper gene function: the cervical plug is made up largely of malformed virus particles (just the shells) which our ancestors commandeered millions of years ago. Without this strange adaptation, most pregnancies would fail. The attached placenta also owes its heritage to viral genes; without it, newborn human babies wouldn't be much larger than newborn rats.
By far the most expensive part of the process was donated by Illumina, a company which makes gene sequencing equipment and accepted his family as a test group. That probably would have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. (The summary's misleading; he only prepared the samples in his basement. The sequencing equipment was bleeding-edge.)
As Xeno man said, the real treasure this fellow had was his knowledge of molecular biology and biochemistry, although as a player in the biotech industry his connections weren't insignificant.
The machine learning researcher in me feels this comment is overly presumptuous and possibly discriminatory.
No, no, not BCD, ASCII decimal. BCD's been ubiquitous in instruction sets since the early sixties, I'm pretty sure. The imagined horror is doing all that math with 0x30 ORed onto everything.
...I was joking, but it's called AAA. bws111 is a bit wrong (I think?); unpacked BCD still uses 0x00 to represent 0, not 0x30. You have to do an extra operation to go between ASCII and unpacked BCD.
Ten bucks says there's an x86 instruction for it.
Given ICANN's track record, I'm pretty sure they're just looking for more public resources to carve up and monetize.
Here's your answer:
"Requestors" – people who want to query the data maintained by ARDS – would have to apply for the right to access domain information.
Basically, they'd be extracting a licensing fee from the current people you go to for WHOIS lookups. Arguably this could be called "killing" WHOIS since it means taking away its... free spirit.
(FWIW, the high-profile accusations of Stasi-like behaviour implied that the rest of the world was being treated like East Germany much moreso than the US itself. Keep in mind that while the NSA may be retaining metadata, they have carte blanche to the same information in every other country. So much for the Pledge of Allegiance.)
That being said, as a Canadian who's visited the US several times, they just don't care. They're too busy to scour everyone's mobile devices. As long as you don't look like you might be Muslim or a specific individual on their hit list, you won't even be subjected to anything more than backscatter and removing your shoes.
Nothing left; I'm satisfied. Except perhaps that I think you need to use more critical reasoning when browsing Wikipedia. Different areas have different ambient levels of quality; they're not all rubbish. Reasonably unobscure articles in the life sciences tend to be very if not completely reliable, simply because there's nothing to manipulate and they're above the reading comprehension of most vandals.
Aha! Yeah, never do that. In perl, this behaviour of the short-circuiting || (or) operator was noticed, so they extended the return value to provide a freaky combo if statement inspired by the ternary operator. It's simultaneously brilliant and revolting, like most things in perl.
Not if you're really, really, really ridiculously tall.
If you think these processes should all be sped up you may want to reduce your ability to produce melatonin.
Evolution sure does. It's set up that way for a reason: shorter life expectancies during times of abundance yield a more rapid mutation rate. This is the sublime hand of God's design in action. (What a great guy, eh?) It's immensely futile to be upset about our hard-wired suicidal tendencies, since they're supposed to clear space for our children—but feel free to rewrite them, if you really think it's best for the world.
Jennifer Anne Luke did her phd on the accumulation of Fluoride in the pineal where it accumulates to levels higher than even the bones over 1000-10,000+ ppm, as a universal enzyme inhibitor it greatly reduces production of melatonin.
Only until puberty—Luke's thesis abstract states that after that, melatonin levels return to normal, although the onset puberty is certainly accelerated.
You may have heard that children are reaching puberty at abnormally young ages in many parts of the modern world.
I sure have—but don't forget that there are other implicated causes, like BGH in milk and xenoestrogens (such as from plastics.) If Fluoride really can be implicated in an epidemic of precocious puberty, then there must be some other variables; it's too widespread to fit the data.
So... forgive me, but why didn't you? The link was right there on the Wikipedia article you cited.
Surely you should be asking the AC?
HEAD KNIGHT: Augh! Ohh! Don't say that word.
ELASHISH14: What word?
HEAD KNIGHT: I cannot tell, suffice to say is one of the words the Knights of SI cannot hear.
ELASHISH14: How can we not say the word if you don't tell us how many mebibytes it takes up?
KNIGHTS OF SI: Aaaaugh!
HEAD KNIGHT: You said it again!
ELASHISH14: What, 'it'?
KNIGHTS OF SI: Agh! No, not 'it'.
HEAD KNIGHT: No, not 'it'. You wouldn't get vary far in life not saying 'it'.
KNIGHTS OF SI: No, not 'it'. Not 'it'.
I know. :) But I had to work it in somewhere!
...okay, I don't actually know if that was LEO or not. But, de-orbiting. Pretend I said "de-orbiting can still be hazardous."
Alas, depending on the construction material, LEO can still be hazardous.
Yes. They have the strength of a million normal dollars. Personally, I welcome the newest addition to the SI unit family. (What could be more ironic than the addition of a highly-variable American currency to a French system intended to be as constant as possible? Nothing, friends. Let us rejoice.)
Fun science fact: it takes twice as much MSG to kill a rat than it does salt if you count by number of molecules, and 5.5x as much if you count by mass.