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By Christopher Bottoms from STL.pm
Lightning talk
Target audience: Any
Language: English
Tags: bioinformatics configuration files

Let the humans work! (An anecdote showing how thoughtful humans can simplify tasks for computers)


I describe how (1) a simple file-format change resulted in reducing processing time by two orders of magnitude and (2) how using human-based parsing resulted in much simpler code.

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