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Title: The Great Tax Debate
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Get block size bash
Probe for block size. Useful when you've probably got no tools. Like when trying to optimize sqlite paging at run-time. function block_size() {( [ "$1…
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Viral load
Quintiles put the poster I made up on their site: Identifying viral load in tumors using nextgen sequencing. Thanks Kim!
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Gene therapies I want to see developed
Gene therapies I'd love to see developed/tested in my lifetime: ​1. daf-2 - Downregulation increases lifespan in c.elegans Next steps: RNAi and/or…
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Clustered Object Encoding 2.0
Without going into detail about of "the cloud" and the exaggerations and mysticism that accompany it, here's some definitions that it took me a while to…
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Variable Length, Zipf's Law and Density Functions
When coding, variables should be named based on both frequency and the length of their context. Variables, structures and other constructs should have a…
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Capricious Job Scheduling
Using a perfectly fair scheduler, I launch 5 processes with the following pattern: IIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCCCIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCCCC…
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New verison of bowtie-1.0
Since the Ben Langmead version has been languishing a bit, I forked the repo, and incorporated most of the pull requests (with some edits…
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