{
  "id": 20934,
  "title": "24 GB files and speed of program",
  "url": "/competitions/draper-satellite-image-chronology/discussion/20934",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2016-05-13T12:49:24.200Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 1,
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  "content": "<p>I have 2 ghz processor and 4 GB memory.\nWill my computer cope with 24 gb file download.\nIs it possible to do this competition using these and a slow Python program.\nI understand python is many tens of times slower thasn other languages.\nIs this right? Also I have tried doing processing in past with excel vba but it makes mistakes with large files. Why?</p>",
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    {
      "id": "119875",
      "postDate": "05/13/2016 12:49:24",
      "content": "<p>I have 2 ghz processor and 4 GB memory.\nWill my computer cope with 24 gb file download.\nIs it possible to do this competition using these and a slow Python program.\nI understand python is many tens of times slower thasn other languages.\nIs this right? Also I have tried doing processing in past with excel vba but it makes mistakes with large files. Why?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I have 2 ghz processor and 4 GB memory.\r\nWill my computer cope with 24 gb file download.\r\nIs it possible to do this competition using these and a slow Python program.\r\nI understand python is many tens of times slower thasn other languages.\r\nIs this right? Also I have tried doing processing in past with excel vba but it makes mistakes with large files. Why?",
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    {
      "id": "119879",
      "postDate": "05/13/2016 13:37:40",
      "content": "<p>Given that there are still months left in the competition and the inherent manual complexity of the task, CPU speed isn't going to be the limiting factor.  Your computer will cope with the file download provided you have enough disk space, but it might be slow at processing it.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Given that there are still months left in the competition and the inherent manual complexity of the task, CPU speed isn't going to be the limiting factor.  Your computer will cope with the file download provided you have enough disk space, but it might be slow at processing it.",
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    {
      "id": 119879,
      "author_name": "tylervigen",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "05/13/2016 13:37:40",
      "content": "<p>Given that there are still months left in the competition and the inherent manual complexity of the task, CPU speed isn't going to be the limiting factor.  Your computer will cope with the file download provided you have enough disk space, but it might be slow at processing it.</p>",
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    "119875": "I have 2 ghz processor and 4 GB memory.\r\nWill my computer cope with 24 gb file download.\r\nIs it possible to do this competition using these and a slow Python program.\r\nI understand python is many tens of times slower thasn other languages.\r\nIs this right? Also I have tried doing processing in past with excel vba but it makes mistakes with large files. Why?",
    "119879": "Given that there are still months left in the competition and the inherent manual complexity of the task, CPU speed isn't going to be the limiting factor.  Your computer will cope with the file download provided you have enough disk space, but it might be slow at processing it."
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