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December 08 2011
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“ And predictions are useless and boring. Here’s one: “Each day will be pretty much like the day preceding it, with a few notable exceptions. We won’t know what those will be until they happen.” ”— inessential.com: Don’t look back or forward
November 22 2011
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October 25 2011
Siri Meets Eliza
Since I got my iPhone 4S, I’ve been intrigued, fascinated and alarmed by Siri’s fast-growing capabilities. I thought it would make sense to introduce her to my psychotherapist, Eliza.
ELIZA was one of the first (and longest) BASIC programs I typed into my then brand-new 16K Apple II in 1979. Originally created at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaum in 1966, this pioneering natural-language-processing...
September 27 2011
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March 06 2011
“ Wenn Merkel ihrer Strategie treu bleibt, wird sie in zwei Jahren aus dem Amt gelacht. ”— Sozialtheoristen » Humor als letzter Versuch ernster politischer Diskussion
March 01 2011
Shaking Down Science
Matt Blaze's Exhaustive Search
Why do IEEE and ACM act against the interests of scholars?If there is one area where the Web and Internet publishing is truly fulfillingits promise, it has to be the free and open availability of scholarly research from all over the world, to anyone who cares to study it. Today's academic does not just publish or perish, but does soon the Web first. This has made science and scholarship not o...
February 27 2011
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