Comment DST ... Match it up? (Score 1) 462
I'd really just like to see the US change its clocks at the same time as Europe... I mean, what's the point of changing a week after they do?
Comment Re:Just Never (Score 1) 194
Ceramic cutting board? The boards to cut vegetables and meat? Why not wood, then you can even throw it on the floor.
Because GGGGGEERRRRRRRMMMMSSSSS!
Comment Cat-Killing Simplicity (Score 1) 629
I guess curiosity is a low and base instinct that we will have eradicated by the time we evolve? How will we continue to evolve without curiosity?
Submission + - Harvard/MIT Student Creates GPU Database, Hacker-Style
IamIanB writes: Harvard Middle Eastern Studies student Todd Mostak's first tangle with big data didn't go well; trying to process and map 40 million geolocated tweets from the Arab Spring uprising took days. So while taking a database course across town at MIT, he developed a massively parallel database that uses GeForce Titan GPUs to do the data processing. The system sees 70x performance increases over CPU-based systems, and can out crunch a 1000 node MapReduce cluster, in some cases. All for around $5,000 worth of hardware.
Mostak plans to release the system under an open source license; you can play with a data set of 125 million tweets hosted at Harvard's WorldMap and see the millisecond response time.
Mostak plans to release the system under an open source license; you can play with a data set of 125 million tweets hosted at Harvard's WorldMap and see the millisecond response time.
Comment Because MacPaint sucked... (Score 1) 704
... the real answer should be Kid Pix. That was a game changer.
Also, the first RTS, Dune.
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