gpurkins

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by gpurkins 13y ago
"oh no I have so many amazing tools to choose from?", I use puppet at the moment. Any of them will make your deploy/config life great.
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by gpurkins 13y ago
Nice! I had read something similar for a wood workshop here: http://woodgears.ca/dust/air_cleaner.html Seems to be quite effective. Also, if you're into woodworking, woodgears is probably one of the best, if not t
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by gpurkins 13y ago
https://banyan.co/ collaboration for scientists on OSX
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by gpurkins 13y ago
A good version exists here: http://www.planetmule.com/
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by gpurkins 14y ago
http://prserve.com is quite good.
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by gpurkins 14y ago
Sparkfun also has an exceptional write up on how to get into the microamp ballpark: http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/309 The article's try and see approach is very detailed and a great read for anyone looking to get into prototyping with
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by gpurkins 14y ago
Thin clients ride again. How much will Dell charge to run your instances?
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by gpurkins 14y ago
Use an open format and learn to love the bomb? Districts probably aren't going to care, as they are looking for a cheaper way to stay current. I recognize the prices are not as good as they should be, but realize the logistics are removed f
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How governments have tried to block Tor [28C3](youtube.com)
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by gpurkins 14y ago
The point is to look at genomic variations across the entirety of the human genome, not so much to match genomic variation to phenotype. What you're saying makes sense, but I think that is more a next step.
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by gpurkins 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_Genomes_Project Here's the project explanation, but the data itself is 1000 complete (hopefully!) genome sequences. The hope is to find the variants, be it single nucleotide differences, copy number diffe
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by gpurkins 14y ago
Depends, there are several sequencing technologies and they all have strengths/weaknesses. At my job, we use 454 sequencing from Roche and since it relies on PCR it has problems with tandem repeats and homopolymers that might not trip up ot
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by gpurkins 14y ago
The real reason for a lot of this is personalized medicine, or rather more specific medicine. A gene translocation or even a SNP may be able to differentiate cancer types and change the course of treatment.