I was in a similar situation setting up a research group. Wanted an expandable setup for a research group, that would meet approval of local IT sysadmins (some remote management opts, vendor support).
Per 2.6K pounds a pop I got a Dell poweredge T410 server with 2 6-core CPUs and 24GB RAM.
I'm never one to push a Dell (been purchasing IBM/HP for years) but this is a decent machine for a decent price.
I tried various cloud solutions using virtual machines on Amazon and similar frameworks, but for the kind of work we do (frequent software updates, massive amounts of data that need to be stored locally and can't be transferred easily), those don't scale. We use Condor as a job submission engine. Not that we don't like SGE but with Oracle's plans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Grid_Engine) one can never tell.
PS: remind you friend to invest in a QNAP NAS or similar for backups / disaster recovery.
I think the fault is of the original reporter at the Register who either did not understand what is said (text comprehension) or decided to use a bit of journalistic 'slight of hand' to pazzazz his rather dull story. In any case it's clear the article contains no content supporting its title. And slashdot? I've been reading it on/off for 14 years and there's clearly an exponential decay (with us being just at the beginning of the drop; who know where this site will be in 10 years).
Dear Geoffrey,
While I appreciate idealism as the other bloke, your argument leads to a rapid slippery slope. Following it would have lost the brits and americans espionage battles of the cold war. What you are saying is that by choosing a side and operating in a manner that helps that side -- in this case, the opposition forces in Iran, you are playing into the hands of the Iranian regime who will use it to argue that the rebellion is supported by Non-Iranians. You are basically saying that any opinion against the Iranian regime from an outsider source will serve to strengthen the Iranian regime. This is rather defeatist in my own ideological opinion which argues that people, of all nations, have the duty of taking a stand against oppression, and not allow cynical regimes to manipulate public opinion into thinking that doing so will weaken the opposition.
Planely speaking, "el al" literally means "towards upwards".
"El" means "to" and "Al" means "on" or "over". Combinatorial semantics apply here.
As a person speaking Hebrew for more than 30y now, I think your friends got it wrong.
The OSS bit becomes a big deal when you want to use parallel computations (on cloud, grid-computing env). We use R for thousands of massively parallel computations on TeraGrid, using its database interface to querty remoted DBs.
Let me second that. I work in NeuroImaging at Uchicago, and since we were given cluster and TeraGrid access we got neuroimaging folks using R and SWIFT (Grid parallel workflow language), and High Energy Physics folks implementing their signal analysis methods on neuroimaging data.
They used to say that physical distance (in yards) is a good prediction of collaboration potential in academic departments. These days, sharing a computer cluster seems to achieve a similar thing.
But, if you are asking how you can contribute, try setting up your system to load virtual machines on each node -- If you can get that going you'll find many potential users that couldn't bother with adapting their code to the cluster, but would be glad to load an image and run a job in it.
If the number of 825,000 installs is correct, this is a phenomenal opportunity for advancing scientific research in those countries. Assuming a single dual-core processor in each machine, and ~80% idle time per day, that amounts to more than 1.3 million computing hours per day that can be used Wisely if the systems come preconfigured with GRID middleware.
I actually read your study.
Also, I have often thought of submitting my work there, but the documentation on the PLOS site states: http://www.plosone.org/static/information.action
"Each submission will be assessed by a member of the PLoS ONE Editorial Board before publication. This pre-publication peer review will concentrate on technical rather than subjective concerns and may involve discussion with other members of the Editorial Board and/or the solicitation of formal reports from independent referees. If published, papers will be made available for community-based open peer review involving online annotation, discussion, and rating."
This gave me the impression that the typical mode of operation is that decisions are made, as default, by one member of the editorial board.
Note Well that their web site implies that the reviews do not focus on theoretical impact (i.e., importance to scientific community as commonly defined) by technical soundness only: http://www.plosone.org/static/whypublish.action
"Too often a journal's decision to publish a paper is dominated by subjective criteria, which can be frustrating and delay the publication of your work. PLoS ONE will publish all papers that are judged to be rigorous and technically sound. Judgments about the importance of any particular paper are then made after publication."
And that papers rejected from other PLOS journals can be moved to PLOS ONE http://www.plosone.org/static/policies.action
All this gave me the impression that the review process is shallow
Again, hope no offence taken, but I think my interpretation was valid given the online info.
Slashdot and various news outlets repeatedly refer to research on the PLOS-One web site as if its published in a journal. PLOS One is *not* a journal. Its a pre-publication, public comment forum, quite like slashdot actually. One editor decided a piece is interesting and the academic community is then invited to comment on it.
To sum: if it sounds fishy, it probably is, and this article's argument (as many noted) doesn't make much sense. The fact that the fly canvasses an area in a way that lets is cover area efficiently does not imply either free will or lack of one either. In fact, observing behavior seems to be quite the wrong way to go at it. As Libet shows, people argue for 'free choice' occuring at certain times, where brain activity actually precedes those choices by ~ 400ms.
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Re' the cases in which you have "Inside Information" that your partner is not likely to have: I had the same experience when I was presented with a photo documenting the opening of the (newly renovated) art museum at Princeton. We agreed on "building" after I exahusted all specific terms like "art, princeton" etc'.
What I think google should do is keep the terms that were not matched in the exchange, and see whether they match other terms given by other people to the photo. After all, that's where the great power is. THe "agreement" is just a "carrot" to keep you going, but I would guess that that is *not* where the bulk of info is extracted from.
Well, I usually never post sites in posts, but this service from Pandora is good enough for me, and has some advantages over iTunes as it *teaches* you about music you might like. Dunno why slashdot didn't post news about it, but for those who like music -- check it out.
Seems to me there's a useful metadata resource available now due to the way that OSX-Tiger is now allowing metadata to be attached to a file (either as xattribs, or via the Spotlight keyword field). See here.
Does anyone know if web crawlers/gatherers (google, harvest, combine etc') have the ability to access that information and associate it with the file?
I would love an automatic gatherer extracting my metadata from the filesystem and allowing searches on it, in combination with the full text option.
I actually clicked the "metadata"link in the original slashdot post, because that's the topic of most interest to me, but that link (as you might have noticed) leads to an old report that does not address the issue. I assumed that the link was the only focus on metadata we have -- but it's actually somewhat of outdated diversion.
I was wondering if any of the Tiger-savvy folks here know whether it is possible to implement novel fields in the metadata associated with each file. For example, I would like each file to have a metadata field such as: "forwarded by:".
Is there any tool (dev tool?) that would let me do this in Tiger?
Cheers,
Oori
I have no.sig
I like your Sig.
My mom always said, "Jim, you're 1 in a million."
My father always said,
"I wish there were a thousand like you, problem is, there are 2 million!"
Does anyone know whether Yahoo pays AP for their photos off the wire? For years I've been using the "news photos" link from news.yahoo.com to see up-to-date photos. Do you think this free service will end now?
I just wanted to remind everyone that passing one's bill onto a debt collection agency is often tantamount to immediate punishment. Once the agency gets an unpaid bill, they often register the uncollected bill with the credit agencies. Once that happens, all sorts of strange things start happening -- your APRs on the credit cards go up, loans become more difficult to get, etc'. This "negative information" having to do with your debt being assigned to an agency *stays* even after you had paid your bill. IN fact, it takes quite a bit of work to have them remove it for you. So even if the RIAA eventually turns out to have made a mistake, or the debt agency turns out to be wrong, simply starting the process corresponds to immediate punishment.
Some tech notes on Shuffle compat and install
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Hi, Just got the Shuffle today, and have a few pointers for those of you who will be getting it shortly. First, If you have a windows machine, the Shuffle's manual says XP SP2 is necesarry. On my computer, iTunes and the shuffle installed and work cleanly on SP1.
Also, during the installation of the shuffle, it request you to plug it in, in order to check whether it needs to be formatted, and then *immediatly* asks you for the serial number on the back of the ipod (which cannot be seen when it's plugged in) -- write it down before plugging it in.
When the Israeli Gov. decided to go open source (and Israel does have a strong IT community).. it was, correctly, interpreted as snubbing microsoft .
A ministry of finance spokeswoman said: "Office includes software that we don't use, and if you buy individually it costs much more than as a package."
Sounds familiar?
Even though Venezuela's GDP is SkyRocketing, I'm still sure they're happy to save a few bucks.
So I just made myself an account, added GMAIL as a bookmark, and then decided to see which other users did the same. In fact, there were 331 others, all identified by their Deli's usernames, and practically all of them linking to gmail's login page. Ditto for the 126 with links to My Yahoo!. Etc' Etc'.
Best to have a Deli' account that is different from the one used for email services... I can easily see Spam mail originating from these sorts of lookups.
Totally agree. One step towards that would be implementing import/ export options of popular bookmark file formats.
But wait, here's another idea -- wouldn't it be great if we could keyword search our bookmarked pages? They should run Gatherers on the bookmark files (Anyone remember the "Harvest" system?). So, if anyone has some process cycles to spare, and an online Linux server, email me -- I'd be willing to try and set up indexers that build separate indexes for each bookmark file. exsched@r-emove.yahooTHIS.com
Well, that's an interesting question, which you can check by crossreferencing the two searches. Of the 49,000 hits for "belief revision", 1,600 contain "belief networks", so your chances of falling on the latter (conditional on the former) by chance are slightly higher than 3%.
You might say, well, maybe the domains aren't related -- but if your threshold is low (curiosity high), you certainly wouldn't have mind to learn of belief nets from the get-go rather than capitalize on the 3% chance of co-occurence.
Slashdot Mirror
I was in a similar situation setting up a research group. Wanted an expandable setup for a research group, that would meet approval of local IT sysadmins (some remote management opts, vendor support). Per 2.6K pounds a pop I got a Dell poweredge T410 server with 2 6-core CPUs and 24GB RAM. I'm never one to push a Dell (been purchasing IBM/HP for years) but this is a decent machine for a decent price. I tried various cloud solutions using virtual machines on Amazon and similar frameworks, but for the kind of work we do (frequent software updates, massive amounts of data that need to be stored locally and can't be transferred easily), those don't scale. We use Condor as a job submission engine. Not that we don't like SGE but with Oracle's plans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Grid_Engine) one can never tell. PS: remind you friend to invest in a QNAP NAS or similar for backups / disaster recovery.
I think the fault is of the original reporter at the Register who either did not understand what is said (text comprehension) or decided to use a bit of journalistic 'slight of hand' to pazzazz his rather dull story. In any case it's clear the article contains no content supporting its title. And slashdot? I've been reading it on/off for 14 years and there's clearly an exponential decay (with us being just at the beginning of the drop; who know where this site will be in 10 years).
Dear Geoffrey, While I appreciate idealism as the other bloke, your argument leads to a rapid slippery slope. Following it would have lost the brits and americans espionage battles of the cold war. What you are saying is that by choosing a side and operating in a manner that helps that side -- in this case, the opposition forces in Iran, you are playing into the hands of the Iranian regime who will use it to argue that the rebellion is supported by Non-Iranians. You are basically saying that any opinion against the Iranian regime from an outsider source will serve to strengthen the Iranian regime. This is rather defeatist in my own ideological opinion which argues that people, of all nations, have the duty of taking a stand against oppression, and not allow cynical regimes to manipulate public opinion into thinking that doing so will weaken the opposition.
Planely speaking, "el al" literally means "towards upwards". "El" means "to" and "Al" means "on" or "over". Combinatorial semantics apply here. As a person speaking Hebrew for more than 30y now, I think your friends got it wrong.
The OSS bit becomes a big deal when you want to use parallel computations (on cloud, grid-computing env). We use R for thousands of massively parallel computations on TeraGrid, using its database interface to querty remoted DBs.
And a mailing list + archives r-sig-hpc@r-project.org
Let me second that. I work in NeuroImaging at Uchicago, and since we were given cluster and TeraGrid access we got neuroimaging folks using R and SWIFT (Grid parallel workflow language), and High Energy Physics folks implementing their signal analysis methods on neuroimaging data. They used to say that physical distance (in yards) is a good prediction of collaboration potential in academic departments. These days, sharing a computer cluster seems to achieve a similar thing. But, if you are asking how you can contribute, try setting up your system to load virtual machines on each node -- If you can get that going you'll find many potential users that couldn't bother with adapting their code to the cluster, but would be glad to load an image and run a job in it.
If the number of 825,000 installs is correct, this is a phenomenal opportunity for advancing scientific research in those countries. Assuming a single dual-core processor in each machine, and ~80% idle time per day, that amounts to more than 1.3 million computing hours per day that can be used Wisely if the systems come preconfigured with GRID middleware.
I actually read your study.
Also, I have often thought of submitting my work there, but the documentation on the PLOS site states:
http://www.plosone.org/static/information.action
"Each submission will be assessed by a member of the PLoS ONE Editorial Board before publication. This pre-publication peer review will concentrate on technical rather than subjective concerns and may involve discussion with other members of the Editorial Board and/or the solicitation of formal reports from independent referees. If published, papers will be made available for community-based open peer review involving online annotation, discussion, and rating."
This gave me the impression that the typical mode of operation is that decisions are made, as default, by one member of the editorial board.
Note Well that their web site implies that the reviews do not focus on theoretical impact (i.e., importance to scientific community as commonly defined) by technical soundness only:
http://www.plosone.org/static/whypublish.action
"Too often a journal's decision to publish a paper is dominated by subjective criteria, which can be frustrating and delay the publication of your work. PLoS ONE will publish all papers that are judged to be rigorous and technically sound. Judgments about the importance of any particular paper are then made after publication."
And that papers rejected from other PLOS journals can be moved to PLOS ONE
http://www.plosone.org/static/policies.action
All this gave me the impression that the review process is shallow
Again, hope no offence taken, but I think my interpretation was valid given the online info.
Oori
Slashdot and various news outlets repeatedly refer to research on the PLOS-One web site as if its published in a journal. PLOS One is *not* a journal. Its a pre-publication, public comment forum, quite like slashdot actually. One editor decided a piece is interesting and the academic community is then invited to comment on it. To sum: if it sounds fishy, it probably is, and this article's argument (as many noted) doesn't make much sense. The fact that the fly canvasses an area in a way that lets is cover area efficiently does not imply either free will or lack of one either. In fact, observing behavior seems to be quite the wrong way to go at it. As Libet shows, people argue for 'free choice' occuring at certain times, where brain activity actually precedes those choices by ~ 400ms.
Re' the cases in which you have "Inside Information" that your partner is not likely to have: I had the same experience when I was presented with a photo documenting the opening of the (newly renovated) art museum at Princeton. We agreed on "building" after I exahusted all specific terms like "art, princeton" etc'. What I think google should do is keep the terms that were not matched in the exchange, and see whether they match other terms given by other people to the photo. After all, that's where the great power is. THe "agreement" is just a "carrot" to keep you going, but I would guess that that is *not* where the bulk of info is extracted from.
Well, I usually never post sites in posts, but this service from Pandora is good enough for me, and has some advantages over iTunes as it *teaches* you about music you might like. Dunno why slashdot didn't post news about it, but for those who like music -- check it out.
SOYLENT GREEN?
Could it be that Google needs more submissions because they suspect that their initial batch of projects is not as good as they hoped for?
Seems to me there's a useful metadata resource available now due to the way that OSX-Tiger is now allowing metadata to be attached to a file (either as xattribs, or via the Spotlight keyword field). See here.
Does anyone know if web crawlers/gatherers (google, harvest, combine etc') have the ability to access that information and associate it with the file?
I would love an automatic gatherer extracting my metadata from the filesystem and allowing searches on it, in combination with the full text option.
I actually clicked the "metadata"link in the original slashdot post, because that's the topic of most interest to me, but that link (as you might have noticed) leads to an old report that does not address the issue. I assumed that the link was the only focus on metadata we have -- but it's actually somewhat of outdated diversion.
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http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/ 7
Thanks for the ref, although it was made in a somewhat rough and impolite manner. For those directly interested in metadata in tiger, follow: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars
I was wondering if any of the Tiger-savvy folks here know whether it is possible to implement novel fields in the metadata associated with each file. For example, I would like each file to have a metadata field such as: "forwarded by:". Is there any tool (dev tool?) that would let me do this in Tiger? Cheers, Oori I have no .sig
I like your Sig. My mom always said, "Jim, you're 1 in a million." My father always said, "I wish there were a thousand like you, problem is, there are 2 million!"
Does anyone know whether Yahoo pays AP for their photos off the wire? For years I've been using the "news photos" link from news.yahoo.com to see up-to-date photos. Do you think this free service will end now?
I just wanted to remind everyone that passing one's bill onto a debt collection agency is often tantamount to immediate punishment. Once the agency gets an unpaid bill, they often register the uncollected bill with the credit agencies. Once that happens, all sorts of strange things start happening -- your APRs on the credit cards go up, loans become more difficult to get, etc'.
This "negative information" having to do with your debt being assigned to an agency *stays* even after you had paid your bill. IN fact, it takes quite a bit of work to have them remove it for you. So even if the RIAA eventually turns out to have made a mistake, or the debt agency turns out to be wrong, simply starting the process corresponds to immediate punishment.
Hi, Just got the Shuffle today, and have a few pointers for those of you who will be getting it shortly. First, If you have a windows machine, the Shuffle's manual says XP SP2 is necesarry. On my computer, iTunes and the shuffle installed and work cleanly on SP1.
Also, during the installation of the shuffle, it request you to plug it in, in order to check whether it needs to be formatted, and then *immediatly* asks you for the serial number on the back of the ipod (which cannot be seen when it's plugged in) -- write it down before plugging it in.
When the Israeli Gov. decided to go open source (and Israel does have a strong IT community).. it was, correctly, interpreted as snubbing microsoft .
A ministry of finance spokeswoman said: "Office includes software that we don't use, and if you buy individually it costs much more than as a package."
Sounds familiar?
Even though Venezuela's GDP is SkyRocketing, I'm still sure they're happy to save a few bucks.
So I just made myself an account, added GMAIL as a bookmark, and then decided to see which other users did the same. In fact, there were 331 others, all identified by their Deli's usernames, and practically all of them linking to gmail's login page. Ditto for the 126 with links to My Yahoo!. Etc' Etc'.
Best to have a Deli' account that is different from the one used for email services... I can easily see Spam mail originating from these sorts of lookups.
Totally agree.
One step towards that would be implementing import/ export options of popular bookmark file formats.
But wait, here's another idea -- wouldn't it be great if we could keyword search our bookmarked pages? They should run Gatherers on the bookmark files (Anyone remember the "Harvest" system?).
So, if anyone has some process cycles to spare, and an online Linux server, email me -- I'd be willing to try and set up indexers that build separate indexes for each bookmark file. exsched@r-emove.yahooTHIS.com
Well, that's an interesting question, which you can check by crossreferencing the two searches. Of the 49,000 hits for "belief revision", 1,600 contain "belief networks", so your chances of falling on the latter (conditional on the former) by chance are slightly higher than 3%.
You might say, well, maybe the domains aren't related -- but if your threshold is low (curiosity high), you certainly wouldn't have mind to learn of belief nets from the get-go rather than capitalize on the 3% chance of co-occurence.