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has $6B endowment

This work is high impact for low effort (relative to carbon removal and sequestration), ready to deploy today, and largely overlooked. This type of effort is crucial to address — as fast as possible. I'm really happy to see this.

Right now, just "number of nodes". But that's definitely something we'll be adding soon.

We actually built on EC2, not Elastic MapReduce. Invoices come from Mortar only -- that way when we can achieve bulk AWS savings, we can keep our cost lower.

I'm glad it looks awesome, thanks!

Oh, great to know that, thanks!

Oh thanks for asking that -- it takes about 30s to illustrate the million song set; we're working to make it faster!

And also, if you haven't seen musicmachinery.com, do check it out.

Thank you, I appreciate the feedback.

Thank you! There is a link to request an invite at mortardata.com -- if you'd like access, let us know. We just got a lot of invitation requests from this post, but we'll invite you as soon as we can.

I love that open source mentality (sharing and collaborating for the love of the work, community, and result) is reaching higher ed. I can't wait for it to reach lower ed! If kids start seeing this model at a young age...

The video does not explain why the product is great, and jumps straight into feature details. I think the video also assumes familiarity with the desktop product, which I don't have. I lost interest quickly.

We don't know of any viruses that are directly beneficial to the human body, as we know of beneficial bacteria; so it's an amazing idea.

On the other hand, Nathan Wolfe http://www.gvfi.org/wolfe/ , virus expert, believes that if all viruses were wiped out, humanity would not last long at all. If this drug were excreted or discarded into water supplies, we may begin destroying our viral population, with unintended effect.

Still, leads one to wonder what more highly targeted applications could be created. Parasites, specific bacteria, etc. Exciting times.