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Have you ever wished you could sort all of the people you follow on Twitter by how frequently they update? Here is a Ruby script that will do that for you. It asks Twitter for your friends, and uses Gene Smith’s Tweeterboard.com to determine update frequency. (Follow tweeterboard to let it know to track your stats).

To use the script, simply download it below, edit the constants at the top of the file, at run: ruby friendstats.rb. (Optional step: unfollow your boring-but-prolific “friends”).

Feedback appreciated. Usual disclaimer applies: beware, may kill your cat, I’m not liable, etc.

In a couple of hours, I’ll be waking up to catch a flight to Reno, by way of L.A. That’s right folks, behold the efficiency of the American Airlines flight scheduler. Anyway, in Reno, my teammates and I will…wait, what? Teammates?

Right, so in the past month or so, a groups of us undergrads here at Stony Brook University have been building a kick-ass supercomputing cluster. That’s right, tens of thousands dollars worth of equipment, with Debian, NFS, Infiniband, Xeons, and more, to create a truly powerful computing cluster, capable of rendering pollen particles, simulating molecules and oceans, and defeating benchmarks in a single bound. I’ve been busy helping make it all happen.

We’ve been preparing for the SC07 Cluster Challenge, an event to be held next week in Reno, on the SC07 conference floor. Six teams of eager undergrads will be competing to run the benchmarks faster, and to impress the judges more. Wish Stony Brook luck!