Monthly Archives: February 2007
“Data is often better than you think”
Gapminder has previously been mentioned in these parts. The quote in the title comes from a presentation on Gapminder by Hans Rosling from the Karolinska Institutet. I strongly encourage readers of this blog to check the presentation out. It raises many important questions about data, design tools, and trends, all subjects of [...]
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80 cores? We’re still figuring out 2
By now, I’m sure that most people are aware of Intel’s recent demo of an 80-core chip. Teraflop number crunching on a single chip. Just imagine running 100s of nanoseconds of molecular dynamics simulations on your hope computer while you edit video on it as well. Reality check #1. The chip is a [...]
Posted in Computing, Technology 3 Comments
Searching biological information at NextBio
John Cook at the Seattle PI points us to an article about NextBio. I first heard about the company when I noticed a press release mentioning that Jane Su, whom I have met a couple of times in a past life, had joined NextBio as Director of Scientific Computing. Leroy Hood’s involvement was [...]
Posted in BioIT, Business, Industry, Informatics, Life Science, Software & Internet 5 Comments
On the road again
On the road this week, hence the lack of action (I’m not the only one). Might get a post or two in over the weekend and perhaps a couple next week. In the meantime, I highly recommend this interesting read on tapeworms
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Biomarkers biomarkers everywhere