Peter Norvig on his Obama endorsement
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Comprehensive and absolutely rational. If everyone can make decisions this way......
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Science as a way of life
I am working on some very smart things to say here. Really. Meanwhile, there's this and this. Welcome.
September 30, 2008
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Comprehensive and absolutely rational. If everyone can make decisions this way......
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Today. Atleast 100 dead at Chamunda Devi temple in the city of Jodhpur. Previous stampedes. August 3. 140 dead. 40 children. Stampede at the Nainadevi temple, Himachal Pradesh. July. 6 dead. Stampede at Jagannath temple, Orissa. March. 10 dead. Stampede...
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September 29, 2008
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Held a hefty book today that warrants a blog post. The book is American Prometheus, The triumph and tragedy of Robert J. Oppenheimer. I referred to this book to check on a certain event in Oppenheimers life. It is this:...
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September 24, 2008
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Send them in. I'll start reading them from this weekend. For some of the stories with good ideas whose execution can be bettered, I hope to ask the authors for revisions. Btw, we will look through the past two years...
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September 23, 2008
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A C Grayling in his regular column in New Scientist questions the use of Brain Electrical Oscillation Signature (it's like polygraph, for the brain) in a criminal case in Bombay where life sentences were given to accused based on Brain...
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September 18, 2008
No, no. This isn't from the tasteless blurb on the cover of a Creationist book. This is about research on the evolution of anus published at Nature Magazine. "The very simple question is how to get from one opening to...
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September 17, 2008
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Folks, this an experimental post (for me, that is). It is slightly incoherent. Written in five minutes. No corrections made. My typing hands decide not to pause. Enjoy if you can get through the muddle. Big Bang, a variation I...
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September 16, 2008
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I found the below from historian and writer Ramachandra Guha's book India After Gandhi to be of interest given the current US election campaign (Note that Mr Guha was talking within the context of Partition). "The world over, the rhetoric...
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September 12, 2008
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We are close! You could be the one and if you are you will be teleported to NYC for a party with people from other dimensions. It's time to celebrate the conversations we have had all through these years. Come...
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September 11, 2008
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Saw this at a mailing list [Anarchy-SF]. I would have left out Harry Potter (it's gratuitous with certain themes: homosexuality, libertarian....). A good list to pick from you are looking for fiction on political sf to read....
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