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Why Are Some People So Smart?

33 points| davidiach | 11 years ago |wired.com | reply

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[+] father_of_two|11 years ago|reply
Ask not why some people are so smart, ask why so many are dumb. :)
[+] pwang|11 years ago|reply
It's absolutely pathetic that that kid had to learn Perl to do genomics.
[+] noir_lord|11 years ago|reply
Why?

Sequence data is series of huge strings, perl is famed for its string handling.

I don't see the issue.

[+] supercoder|11 years ago|reply
What would you recommend should be the alternative