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Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> writes:
> Sigh.  Nobody really does compute-bound tasks anymore, do they?  I really
> miss "scientific programming."

Actually, my wife is a molecular biologist and eats CPU hours with
milk and sugar for breakfast.  She expressed her satisfaction
yesterday at finding out that her latest program only takes four and a
half hours per data set.  "But honey," says I, "you have 30,000 data
sets!"  Quoth the love of my life, "That's OK, we've got *two*
computers."

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