According to an article I read on reddit, the human genome is about 3 gigabases long.
A base is either A, T G or C. That means they can be represented by the binary numbers 00, 01, 10 and 11. So, 2 bits can code for any base. 3 Gbases = 6 Gbits = 750 Mbytes
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Nobody Speaks Chinese? Cannot Be Lah…
We (as in my mom and I) have apparently accrued enough miles (two round trips from Singapore to SF/LA ~= 27000 miles) to get two free round-trip tickets to anywhere in North America… so we’re heading out to Washington D.C., home of the most enormous and powerful government on the face of this planet, next […]
Anti-Communist, Anti-Japanese Rant #8416
We had lunch with an elderly stock trader and his wife today at this Thai place in the Capital Mall. After friendly, ritualized greetings and cheery banter, the gent let it slip that his father was a KMT soldier. That immediately grabbed my attention. Upon further questioning I discovered that his father was a Chinese […]
Paint the Town!
Helped out today at this charity event thingy in Centralia to paint houses for people who are too poor (or maybe just don’t have the physical stamina) to paint their houses.
Our assigned house was in Rochester, so we drove up there in a fleet of vehicles to a rather… old… neighborhood. Because we were in […]
It Feels Good to be Vulgar
Hysterically funny. I used the mother of all Chinese f-bombs – “KNNBCCB” – today. In America. On A Singaporean. An f-bomb so vile that educated and civilized people must only say its acronym-ized form. The clueless Xinjiaporen (could also be Malaysian judging from Singrish accent, though Malaysians in general do not behave this stuck-up) had […]
I Need A Power Supply Unit In The 300 Watt Range!!!
The heavens are conspiring against me, as someone in my family would say. I got the graphics card I bought a while back, and installed it and everything looked fine. Then my computer wouldn’t start. Played with the BIOS, set to disable onboard graphics and prioritize PCI - nada. Then I read the packaging and […]
July 7
I was momentarily wondering where my July 7 went this year. It is rather… unlike myself… to let that date pass by without any sort of action, even symbolic. Then I remembered. I was at Jesus Camp. With around 150 Chinese people. Not a single one of them even bothered to mention anything. Not even […]
Graphics Card Update
Turns out there was some problems with my debit card so my order didn’t go through as planned. Which turned out to be a good thing, as I found a (better) bargain that saved me a small but not-insignificant amount of green. Total was about $51, but then I found on amazon (don’t know why […]
Midnight Rant
Someone should have told me that doing introspection at night causes insomnia. Ah well. 8 hours is nothing in the grand scheme of things. The details of that introspective guilt trip shall only be privy to myself, of course. But to get that off my mind, I need to rant. Unfortunately I am currently out […]
With All That Behind Me…
I finally finished a chapter, with high school and graduation behind me. Now it’s 3 months of R&R before I start penning the next chapter.
High school was… fun. I moved around a lot, so I attended a whole bunch of high schools as well. It was a different experience in each one. The Chinese High […]