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The human genome as information

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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Posted 03 January 2008 § Life ‡ Comments (3)

Windoze Vista Is Pro-Japanese?

I just got my new laptop (HP dv6000t) and it comes with Windoze Vista Home Premium. Booted it up, got rid of bloatware, and installed Firefox. Then I noticed that by blog posts in Chinese being rendered into glyphs that rather resembled hiragana and katakana… despite the fact that they’re using UTF-8 encoding… Luckily I […]

Posted 31 August 2007 § Chinese § Humor ‡ Comments (0)

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 […]

Posted 19 July 2007 § Life § Humor ‡ Comments (0)

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 […]

Posted 11 July 2007 § Life ‡ Comments (1)

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 […]

Posted 10 July 2007 § Books § Life ‡ Comments (1)

CD-to-HDD Transferathon

Just spent about an hour transferring about 9 CDs’ worth of data to the “new” computer (260GB HDD). These CDs were burnt at a time when my iPod (4th gen) had a larger hard drive than my laptop, hence the need for so many CDs to store my school projects, web designs, PhotoJobs and other […]

Posted 17 April 2007 § Life ‡ Comments (0)