Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
07sep2008
The Singularity Is Far, “In this post, I wish to propose for the reader’s favorable consideration a doctrine that will strike many in the nerd community as strange, bizarre, and paradoxical, but that I hope will at least be given a hearing. The doctrine in question is this: while it is possible that, a century hence, humans will have built molecular nanobots and superintelligent AIs, uploaded their brains to computers, and achieved eternal life, these possibilities are not quite so likely as commonly supposed, nor do they obviate the need to address mundane matters such as war, poverty, disease, climate change, and helping Democrats win elections.”
HOWTO: Not Get Seated on a Death Penalty Jury, by localroger. Highly scary.
So it’s fare thee well my own true love
We’ll meet another day another time
It’s not the leavin’ that’s a-grievin’ me
But my darling who’s bound to stay behind.
— Bob Dylan, Farewell
BBC ‘News’ is a lot like BBC News, except that it just shows the latest articles with quotation marks in the headline. It’s updated every couple of hours.
Commenting system with lightweight JSON store, “As I wrote this blog engine, the need for a commenting system arose and I reflected about a small and simple commenting system with just a flat file JSON store. This is my solution, which can be used on any static page on a server with PHP support.”
reprise is as minimal a hAtom blog as possible.
The initial view on typed sprintf and sscanf, by Oleg.
So fare thee well, my own true love
When I return united we will be
It’s not the leaving of Liverpool that’s grieving me
But my darling when I think of thee
— The Leaving of Liverpool
8, John Baez: “Next Saturday I’m going to the University of Glasgow to give talks about some of my favorite numbers: 5, 8 and 24.” Nice set of slides.
cycle = concat . repeat = fix . (++), who can improve the proof?
8bitpeoples first came together in 1999 as a collective of artists sharing a common love for classic videogames and an approach to music which reflected this obsession.
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