Image via WikipediaSo the latest Top 500 list is out, so why doesn’t it excite me as much as it used to. Well partly cause many of those machines are not easily accessible, while other computing resources are within reach. Perhaps partly because..
Topics: BioIT

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Image by ynse via FlickrI’ve been meaning to write about Freerisk.org for a while now, but only got reminded yesterday as I read the Wired article about Toby Segaran’s (and Jesper Anderson’s) new project.Freerisk.org sucks in financial..
Topics: Admin

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In episode 21 of Coast to Coast Bio (not yet released) I talk about Hive. For those who may not know, Hive is a data warehouse infrastructure built on top of Hadoop.One of the most recent Amazon Public Data Sets is a sample of Wikipedia page stat...
Topics: Big Data, Computing, Informatics, Life Science

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I’ve written about software failures in the past. As I get a better understanding of scale and architectures and talk to others about some of the core design principles of systems at scale, e.g. Recover Oriented Computing (also see this talk by...
Topics: BioIT, Computing, Life Science

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My lack of enthusiasm for the current publish or perish model is well documented. This thread from Friendfeed highlights one of the many problems with the current state of peer review and the publishing model and implications for tenure etc. ...
Topics: Publishing, Science

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