The german magazine “Der Spiegel” has an interesting Interview with Craig Venter. Money quote: SPIEGEL: So the Human Genome Project has had very little medical benefits so far? Venter: Close to zero to put it precisely.
Continue reading...July 2010
A Case for an SSD
I’ve just had another occasion to compare directly two pretty similar machines: A recent off-the-shelf MacBook Pro (I5, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB SATA) with my normal working MacBook Pro (I7, 8 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD). Falling back to the slower machine, and not using all the RAM...
Continue reading...New OCR Wrapper published on Sourceforge
I’ve shared a small project I’ve recently written on sourceforge: pdfocrwrapper.sourceforge.net This tool serves as a wrapper around the excellent ABBYY OCR engine which also exists as a Linux variant. The wrapper recursively iterates a directory structure and submits all PDF that it finds (and that it has not...
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