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You just know this was an op run by Harry Pierce and company, lol!

Godspeed, Veeger. Godspeed.

I am getting this on my holiday list: http://www.amazon.com/A-Madman-Dreams-Turing-Machines/dp/140...

The statement that translating an outcome in a mathematical model into the physical world is, in quantum mechanics, a probabilistic operation simply depends on one's viewpoint. The…

Stating the obvious here, but at what point do we drop the word "simulation" and just say IBM has electronically re-created a macaque monkey brain? Doing that would then entail eth…

And this is why, boys and girls, we don't do bath salts.

Yes, I call cannibalistic tribes murderers (provided any still exist, hopefully not). But my point is to not rush to make simplistic categories. My attitude on these and related is…

Cool problem. I LOVE optimization problems like this, lol. A good "start up" kind of idea too. Scheduling ambulances. Requires not just optimizing for streets, etc., but for time, …

We need to be very careful here. There are those (not myself) who would contend that a fetus is a "person", thereby implying that abortion is "murder". I disagree with that, but if…

If we are on the subject of what animals it is ethical to hunt, etc., how about more strongly protecting the Great Apes (chimps, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans) as they are our clos…

I thought recently what makes some people forever poor and some people forever prosperous. Really, it is mentality. The poor will burn principle as soon as they get it. The rich wi…

The first company I worked at during the "dot-com" era, back when we were all worried about Y2K, lol, used genetic algorithms to solve mobile resource management problems - hence I…

"A touch, a touch I do confess." (Hamlet) LOL. Yes, "mapping" is a better term than "operation" for reasons you put forward. :-)

Seriously, "true that", and that is why although most of my "day jobs" deal with Java, C is cooler, lol.

A function is a type, is a set, is a number. And that, frankly, is difficult to get around. Coming from the C / Java world, it is hard to understand that "types" are really sets (i…

I like Tesla too, but dude, this sounds like the Chinese water torture cell that felled Houdini. Sometimes the greatest finally go too far. Being protected by a Faraday cage, this …

I might imagine one day C.S. departments might merge back into the Maths department, where (IMHO) C.S. most properly belongs.

Sour.Grapes.

I tried to submit the text of a blog essay I wrote on SCO v. IBM but it was too long for the submission rules, so here is a link: http://blogkinnetic.blogspot.com/2012/08/darl-mcbr…

Let's recall when Jobs was ousted - worked out real well for Apple, now did it not? He had to be dragged in later to turn the ship around. FB has made some mistakes no doubt, but d…

One could of course write a wrapper function to create strings, like char* someString = makeAString("A String"); where makeAString takes a char* as input, allocates the memory it n…

No. assholes. ever.

As a physics buff, I'm sure this is fascinating, but I just could not bring myself to watch the video - I love my cats too darn much, lol.

To all the "haters" on this thread, I will simply say this: Senator, I worked with Darl McBride. I knew Darl McBride. Darl McBride was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Darl McB…