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apitman
13,487karma·3,567submissions·December 11, 2014
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Software architect on the iobio team at the University of Utah Eccles Institute of Human Genetics. I'm passionate about the application of computer science to solving health problems. Hans Rosling is my hero.
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Unfortunately I believe SolidWorks is only available for certain engineering majors, not CS students. But I just found out yesterday that apparently I have access to the entire Autodesk suite.
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I have; good stuff
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As someone who recently start learning to program GPUs, I enjoyed this read. I particularly find the concept of a linear algebra-aware type system compelling. I love the idea of the type system static…
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When you install a package locally, executable files get added to node_modules/.bin. So you can run gulp using node_modules/.bin/gulp. Also, npm scripts automatically have that director…
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BTW I couldn't really tell any difference in the fan noise levels when the CPUs were pegged, though the temps went from ~40C to ~60C. It's already pretty quiet. Just barely above the level w…
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Yeah I originally thought about getting one of the 1U prebuilt systems from natex. So glad I went with the huge quiet case instead.
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I went ahead and rebooted it so I could plug my Kill-A-Watt back in just for you ;). It idles at right around 110W. I did a quick sysbench to peg all the cores and it goes up to about 300W. Note that …
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If I were doing a build today, I would be sorely tempted by Ryzen, mostly because it would be new hardware and the AM4 platform. That said, having a server board has turned out to be really nice for a…
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I'm using Arch with kvm/libvirt. Most of the configuration of guests is done via virt-manager. Since a lot of this is moving relatively fast, I recommend using some sort of a rolling distro.…
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Highly recommend this case if you go with an Intel S2600CP (or any other SSI EEB mobo):
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681185... …
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+1 for natex. That's where I got my motherboard and it's worked great for about 6 months.
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I'm writing this on a dual E5-2670 v1 system I built for about 1000USD (not including monitors). 16C/32T, intell s2600cp motherboard, 48GB ECC, 256GB SSD (some cheap one), dual 3TB WD Red. R…
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The first article you linked seems to indicate that most scientists in peer reviewed papers were actually predicting warming, not cooling (42 papers vs 7 papers). Also, I didn't read it carefully…
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Thanks for the reply. Definitely an interesting approach, and I appreciate your efforts to play it safe with respect to the environment. But you're correct that this didn't really address my…
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Not above it or any of the traps we all fall into as humans, but try to keep an eye out and recognize when I'm doing it.
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I think it's sad that you've been conditioned to assume that, but I agree it does happen a lot. But in this case I am literally curious what parent thinks about this argument, because they s…
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I have a question for you as well. One argument I've heard from climate-change skeptics is that the earth has gone through ice ages in the past without any intervention from humanity, so who'…
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Sad you're being downvoted. I have many climate-change denying friends and family members, and these are exactly the arguments they use. So much of it basically boils down to them perceiving the …
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I used to spend time learning languages as a hobby and have a hardcover copy of a book called "The Navajo Verb". I'd be happy to loan it to you.
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Carrier frequency as well. Depending on carrier, rollout status, and device, you can have a vastly different experience in a given area indoors vs outdoors.
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cmake -GNinja ..
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The Carbide demos show the original source data values updating in response to manipulating the output. I'm assuming that's still possible with g9 just not hooked up to the editor component?
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I spent some time playing around with NetworkX (python library) today. It has all the necessary features for graph building, and the graphviz (dot) file writing seems to have enough features to accomp…
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Would the constraints really have to be all that intuitive? I imagine it basically being simple line and shape primitives. For example if I drag a vertex to a new location, all that would need to chan…