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Hint: https://gist.github.com/92c0cf4... - Rob Syme

http://stackoverflow.com/questio... - ahmet kakıcı

yeap the point is python caches small ints (till 256) and when you define an int it returns cached small int object so "is" comparasion passes but after 256 python creates new object and "is" failed, thanks to ahmet :) - aydın

Extra credit, explain: p=1000; q=1000; p is q - Rob Syme

Every code object has a tuple of constants. The LOAD_CONST opcode loads a constant from this tuple onto the VM stack. So every time 1000 occurs in the program text, it refers to the same object in the tuple of constants for that block. At an interactive interpreter, each line is its own block. You can put multiple simple statements in one statement with semi-colons, so here you've... more... - Jeremy Hylton

it is clearer for now, thanks jeremy - aydın

I should have said "plots of Hilbert curves". The wp link has a good description. Used for visualising a long vector in 2d space. The take-home message of the figure is that genes are missing in 'chunks'. Do you think that this is apparent from the pic above? - Rob Syme

I think the image indeed nicely slows blocks where something is 'wrong'... you mentioned the different colors for different strains... but looking at the random color distribution, I do not really understand how to read that bit... then again... those interesting 'blocks' do show a color tendency... is that what I should read from the plot? - Egon Willighagen

I can't believe it! - Björn Brembs

Rob, cito:usesMethodIn or cito:disagreesWith ? - Egon Willighagen

@Egon that's a good question. I was being a bit dramatic. The recent citations are pro, but they recognise the paper for what it is. Eg: "Glucose tolerance was estimated as the product of the areas under the curve (AUCs) for glucose and insulin calculated using the trapezoidal method (30), with higher AUCs indicative of reduced glucose tolerance" - Rob Syme

Ack, taking that paper as a tutorial... that make sense. - Egon Willighagen

Almost 150 citations now... http://apps.isiknowledge.com/full_re... - Björn Brembs

Now picked up by Slashdot :) http://science.slashdot.org/story... - Egon Willighagen

Dropping the base price to $99 requires us to collect additional revenue, unfortunately. Think of it as a $159 gift? with option to continue? We continuously update the content so there it's not a one-time value. - Shirley Wu

Can that be canceled any time? - Rachel Walden

@Shirley - sure, it is still a great gift. - Pedro Beltrao

I think I may buy this as a christmas present for someone. I will be sure to point them towards the store page showing the full price. - Michael Barton

@Rachel, there is a 1 year minimum at purchase but it can be canceled anytime thereafter - Shirley Wu

Thanks, Shirley - Rachel Walden

Thanks Shirley! Just ordered mine. - Rob Syme

Ordered mine, blogged and tweeted about it, and now pondering whether a Barcamp-style meeting makes sense once Genomes Unzipped allow data contribution. Sigh :-) - Oliver Hofmann

Thanks Rob - it's been a seriously busy year for me helping advise these guys, but they worked really hard and deserved to be rewarded. Not a bad result for a n00b team. - Andrew Perry from Android

Do you know if any WA universities put a team together? - Rob Syme