While I am swimming long distances I am rolling very interesting different films and stories in my head in order to forget about swimming and pains that I have in my body. Basically I am like a robot and if someone suddenly “wakes me up,” I usually get angry, because I fall out of my concentration. This “robot stage” is an ability of high-level concentration, which works like hypnosis. So I could say that if you want to forget your pains and action you have to know how to put yourself into hypnotism. This hypnotized stage could last up to one hour on my swims and I can repeat several times a day. I needed many years to train/teach myself how to do it. I could not do this when I was younger.
Swimming the Amazon: 3,274 Miles on the World’s Deadliest River - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
Simply, Wow. I wonder what the robot stage has in common with the ‘zone’ one can get in whilst doing an athletic activity where you go on autopilot and work with instinct, rather than conscious thought. Its then that the best or atleast the most satisfying performance happens, and the pain is forgotten and bliss lives on.
So you need to provide a count or counter for your web application, but you want it to scale. The naive approach would be to simply select count(*) from table. That will fail under load because it requires scanning your entire collection.
Semergence » Blog Archive » Scalable Counters for Web Applications
With MACHO having 73 million objects, and 130 million+ light curves on a machine with 16gb of memory and objects and light curves table being 7gb and 13 gb respectively, I deal with this issue every day. Partitions definitely the way to go…
And when it comes to buying into such data services (be they software, a platform, storage or compute time), there are certain questions that need to asked
Out of Cloud Chaos Comes Structure - GigaOM
I made some comments on the importance of cloud computing in science and the issues we must deal with over there on GigaOm at http://gigaom.com/2008/06/30/out-of-cloud-chaos-comes-structure/#comment-886452
In a remarkable 10 hours and 55 minutes on June 20, 2008, climber, skier and photographer Jimmy Chin solo climbed and skied the Grand, Middle and South Tetons, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
Jimmy Chin Solo Climbs and Skis Teton Trifecta
Absolutely amazing!
Thinking Like a Cocoa Programmer
Interesting read, a lot of nice cocoa stuff on this guy’s site
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I wonder if they allow for movies to be paused, the pause location to be stored, and then streamed ont another computer/device elsewhere. Even more than movies this would be a great structure for news, documentaries, etc.
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North East Surface Map
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