Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
14apr2008
Computer Wins a Game Against a Go Master, “During the Go Tournament in Paris, staged between 22 and 24 March 2008 by the French Go Federation (FFG), the MoGo artificial intelligence (IA) engine developed by INRIA – the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control – running on a Bull NovaScale supercomputer, won a 9x9 game of Go against professional 5th DAN Catalin Taranu. This was the first ever officially sanctioned ‘non blitz’ victory of a ‘machine’ over a Go Master.”
Let me into the rage, inside your mind,
The fire burning in your eyes, terrifies
But I can’t look away from the light, if I do
I think I’ll go blind
I just want to cool your power
— Pain Teens, Cool Your Power
Ki Do (The Way of the Trees), by Sarah Thomas. “Bonsai have a tale about the origin of the world. It is true, so listen.”
Flensted Mobiles: The Wisest Owl, cuuuute.
Bob Ippolito on Erlang, not much new, but Erlang still is the only mildly popular functional language with pattern matching in the core, isn’t it?
Storage Space, The Final Frontier, great news: “…our forthcoming persistent storage feature will give you the ability to create reliable, persistent storage volumes for use with EC2. Once created, these volumes will be part of your account and will have a lifetime independent of any particular EC2 instance.”
And all you are is all you are…
I’m so sorry (for you) I’m sorry…
So all hail the new flesh,
because it suits me fine…
— Strapping Young Lad, All Hail The New Flesh
Free Strips of Paper, made my day.
YUI Simple Editor, needs 223kb of data and ~2s to load here. Nice. (I really want a WYSIWYG editor that has pre-defined markup, though.)