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Re:Twitter to Release All Tweets to Scientists by vschiavoni on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @06:57AM (#7803822)
Have you ever heard about the 'Human Brain Project' ?

Well, they produce 100 GB of data _per second_

Welcome to the real big data world.

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Re:Twitter to Release All Tweets to Scientists by vijayr on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @11:36AM (#7804986)
Woah, 100 GB per second???!! What exactly do they do?

Edit: Never mind, this is what they are doing

"We would like to develop some kind of ‘google' brain where we can zoom in and out, see it from different perspectives and understand how brain structure and function is related."

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