You may also tell me a story of these other four (one, two, three, four). The book itself is scanned and just about to appear as a project at Distributed Proofreaders. Read more about it at Bookp(h)ile.
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At what point will it become apparent that a SmartSpoon is not merely an active sensing device, but a tool for ubiquitous communication among a community of peers?
I’m saying 15 years, tops.
The question is whether the “food” or the “cook” will be first to realize somebody (-thing) has to spell out a valid ontological framework for the coming era of spoon–spooned dialog.
Looks like Jeff has a fine property in the works, and I say he should run with it. I particularly like the way he’s planning ahead for casting and reviewers. A real slyce of liffe.
Vivekes boones! Ich kan nat wayt to get home and playe oblivion on lowyses xbox. Myn ork barbaryan ys nerely at IXth leuel.
But if we know some history, if we know how many times Presidents have made similar declarations to the country, and how they turned out to be lies, we will not be fooled. Although some of us may pride ourselves that we were never fooled, we still might accept as our civic duty the responsibility to buttress our fellow citizens against the mendacity of our high officials.
We would remind whoever we can that President Polk lied to the nation about the reason for going to war with Mexico in 1846. It wasn’t that Mexico “shed American blood upon the American soil,” but that Polk, and the slave-owning aristocracy, coveted half of Mexico.
(Via 3quarksdaily.)
You may also tell me a story of these other three (one, two, three). The book itself is scanned and up and running as a project at Distributed Proofreaders, as Barbara has mentioned.
Tell me a story:
Seen in a comment at Stranger Fruit’s entry “More on mathematicians”:
Mathematics may be the language of nature, but I think nature spends a lot of time mumbling…
Alas, a Blog discusses weight loss:
1) No weight-loss diet has every been scientifically shown to produce substantial long-term weight loss in any but a tiny minority of dieters.
2) Whether or not a weight-loss diet “works,” people who go on weight-loss diets are likely to die sooner than those who maintain a steady weight or who slowly gain weight.
3) For fat people (or anyone else) concerned with their health, the best option is probably moderate exercise and eating fruits and veggies, without concern for waistlines. In other words, Health At Every Size (HAES).
4) The model on which most weight-loss diets are based - in which fat people eat like fat people and must learn to eat like non-fat people - is probably a myth.
I have no better word than “evil” to describe the willful stupidity or active malevolence it must have taken William Dembski to report a scientist to Homeland Security. Either stupid, or malevolent. You can’t have both, and it’s absolutely clear that you gotta have one of those.
A new release of Evolutionary Computation in Java (ECJ) seems to have been released. Except for the fact that the links seem to be broken….
Pontification without all the gritty gravitas
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