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Completely fascinating rant. Somewhere there's a counter argument in favor of non-critical systems achieving planned obsolence through joint failure and the economic benefit of con…

Bit of an ego blow to those styling themselves as "influentials."

The linked article should be taken in context -- it was published almost a year ago, when the public attitude about lending practices was quite different (and the nytimes does tend…

A CMU Robotics masters is totally sexy.

M.S. Computer Science, CIMS NYU. Actively programming when not wrangling departmental politics.

Interestingly, the female genius stay fairly consistent across their life spans. It does not exhibit the sharp peak in the of their male counterparts. Unfortunately, the paper does…

I've only poked at it, but some pals are knee deep into it. They produce truly beautiful interactions with it. Check out http://www.processingblogs.org/ . It's a blogblender of act…

I liked Clive Thompson's summary of the paper: http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2008/01/this_m...

The linked article refers to the board game version rather than the gliders version.

I've skimmed, not read, the article, but it's good enough that I'll be causing some tree-death to read it slowly on the train home tonight. I might have to rebalance my algorithms …

My favorite part is that they applied for inclusion in the Guinness Book of World Records. That is crazy smart marketing.

It's worth noting that the professional engineer or doctor is as much an ideal as the professional computer programmer. Doctors actually don't wash their hands as often as they kno…

Adding in some practical pointers too. If you're not in a position to enroll in an accredited CompSci program, look at MIT's free online courses: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/cour…

Consider the Dewar & Schonberg article which has been causing so much stir this week: http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/CrossTalk/2008/01/0801DewarSchon... They argue that a good theoret…

Speaking as a member of the homogametic sex, I've been lurking on news.ycomb for a few months now. About the time I was considering speaking up on an algorithms topic, this appeare…