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Looks like a pretty simple way of running backend stuff on a cloud in a normal Python environment. Did anyone played around with #PiCloud do you like it? As they seem to run stuff in parallel does anyone has any input about how many concurrent jobs it is running for you in the background (as in if I ask to run a function 100.000 times how many are running at the same time?). Just being #curious here :-)

Looks like a pretty simple way of running backend stuff on a cloud in a normal Python environment. Did anyone played around with #PiCloud do you like it? As they seem to run stuff in parallel does anyone has any input about how many concurrent jobs it is running for you in the background (as in if I ask to run a function 100.000 times how many are running at the same time?). Just being #curious here :-)

http://www.picloud.com/

PiCloud
PiCloud gives every scientist, developer, and engineer a supercomputer at their fingertips. We make it easy to leverage thousands of cores of computational power for high performance computing, batch …

So if I'd use my awesome procrastination skills in the correct manner I could…

So if I'd use my awesome procrastination skills in the correct manner I could…

So if I'd use my awesome procrastination skills in the correct manner I could get things done while procrastination?! 

“With this sort of appropriate task structure, the procrastinator becomes a useful citizen. Indeed, the procrastinator can even acquire, as I have, a reputation for getting a lot done.”

Wise words for a guy that took 17 years writing a book with only 92 pages lol

Positive Procrastination, Not an Oxymoron
Psychologists suggest that procrastination, if structured, can have some benefits, by getting you to complete some tasks, even if only to avoid the ones you’re meant to be doing.

So if I'd use my awesome procrastination skills in the correct manner I could get things done while procrastination?!

So if I'd use my awesome procrastination skills in the correct manner I could get things done while procrastination?!

“With this sort of appropriate task structure, the procrastinator becomes a useful citizen. Indeed, the procrastinator can even acquire, as I have, a reputation for getting a lot done.”

Wise words for a guy that took 17 years writing a book with only 92 pages lol

Positive Procrastination, Not an Oxymoron
Psychologists suggest that procrastination, if structured, can have some benefits, by getting you to complete some tasks, even if only to avoid the ones you’re meant to be doing.

Pretty plots for genome wide data! 

Pretty plots for genome wide data! 

Pretty plots for genome wide data! 

Reshared post from +Michele Mattioni

a nice idea about how to visualize complex and busy network: http://www.hiveplot.net/
I like it a lot. There is also a D3js implementation here: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/hive/

Hive Plots – Linear Layout for Network Visualization – Visually Interpreting Network Structure and Content Made Possible
the hive plot is a perceptually uniform and scalable linear layout visualization for network visual analytics. UNDERSTANDING NETWORK STRUCTURE WITH HIVE PLOTS. (A) Normalized (top) and absolute (botto…