Dimitri,
You were the one who suggested that all the structural depictions be
generated.
I, in contrast, suggested that only the ones users need to look at need be
generated. I further suggested that these would only constitute a small
fraction of those in a large DB.
-P.
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Dimitri Maziuk <dmaz...@bmrb.wisc.edu>
wrote:
> On 12/29/2016 12:43 PM, Peter S. Shenkin wrote:
>
> > Of the
> > billion structures, only a fraction will ever be visualized, so a
> > memoization strategy sounds reasonable, which in turn implies that you
> want
> > rapid response when an unstored structure has to be generated.
>
> :)
>
> Now I have a mental picture of a phd student tied to a chair with his
> eyes taped open, forced to look at a billion depictions for 10ms each.
>
> Pictures are only useful if you have a human looking at them. Looking is
> only useful if you do it long enough for the brain to process it. The
> whole "what if we need a billion depictions all at once" implies that
> you have a billion users looking at them all at once. If you don't, then
> rapid response is a very interesting academic exercise but its practical
> usefulness might be somewhat questionable.
>
> --
> Dimitri Maziuk
> Programmer/sysadmin
> BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu
>
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