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If you want AI literature treating human-level intelligence, try searching for "artificial general intelligence". Also, here are some links to the proceedings of recent AGI confere…

I just read and enjoyed The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton.

Pro: I understand the reasoning behind affirmative action better after reading this quote: "People mistakenly assume that affirmative action is about granting minorities undeserved…

I particularly like the plain-English design from JJ at Graphicology, though I wish he'd used AM/PM instead of 24-hour time. Using full sentences reminds me of a UI element* that r…

Go might have a chance, I think, particularly because of its interface system. Defining interfaces based on an object's methods gives the programmer compile-time assurance that obj…

Wow, I've been looking at Perl 6 stuff for a while and this might be the most awesome post I've seen. It's like Perl 5, but Perlier :) Reeally looking forward to golfing in Perl 6.…

You're probably being downvoted because you're stating an uncommon opinion (humans are no more morally relevant than other species) as fact, and your only support is an argument fr…

Wow, that's an inspirational read. Thanks. Maybe I won't try to fix my "problem" :) Hamming's Questions ("What are the most important problems in your field? Are you working on one…

PG talks about the problem of having a top idea that he didn't want, something practical like making money or impractical like disputes, stealing his ambient-thought time. I have t…

It seems like an obvious idea in retrospect, and it fits with the iPad concept-- not a necessity, but a much more satisfying way of doing some specific tasks. I wonder what its int…

To pick out one particular point: "3. We need more than just the imperative mood". The author states that all programming languages are in the imperative mood (which is pretty shak…

I don't quite understand the "blueprint:building :: X:code" idea. It helped when I saw (in a comment at the bottom) that the author doesn't consider regular expressions, SQL, or ot…

Fascinating! It looks from Google Scholar like Karpinski has spent at least 10 years studying reactions like this in Arabidopsis. Biological systems are so densely packed with surv…

Anyone know what the original source Seth's referring to here is? Did Kevin Kelly elaborate on this somewhere?

Counter-warning: I liked it :) but I tend to like more fanciful, meandering approaches to CS topics, like Why the Lucky Stiff and Clifford Pickover. Or Lewis Carroll, for that matt…

Pardon me, my formatting was terrible. I'll go read the docs.

I like my Nexus One: - Has 2.2, and since it's Google hardware maybe it'll be kept up to date - Build quality is solid - Stock Android, no extensions by carrier or hardware company…

Another way their evolution could have affected them is if their reproduction strategy was different than ours. If they had extremely large numbers of offspring (instead of the few…

Anyone else bothered by the shallowness of this article? Maybe Predators are not technically biological predators, but the biological definition isn't the only use of the word (e.g…

"This, then, is your exercise: spend five minutes thinking about why your choice of monogamy is preferable to all of the other inhabitants of relationship-style-space, for you." Wi…

Anyone still looking at this besides me? Applying the "project" model (6) to a programming career: with 3 or 4 small projects a year on Kickstarter or App Store(s), you might be ab…