Archive for November, 2006
You can view a great lecture by very smart man Luis Von Ahn here. Von Ahn’s area of research is how to use people’s brains to do things that are very difficult or impossible for computers to do – for instance, for applying descriptive tags to millions of photographs. He achieves this by [...]
I wasn’t a fan of The Glass House, and I have trouble seeing how such generally toothless satire could get anyone in trouble. But then, there are some real lunatic ideologues on the ABC board, so you never know. It’ll be interesting to see if it gets picked up by some other station.
Anyway, [...]
You can view a great lecture by very smart man Luis Von Ahn here. Von Ahn’s area of research is how to use people’s brains to do things that are very difficult or impossible for computers to do – for instance, for applying descriptive tags to millions of photographs. He achieves this by [...]
I wasn’t a fan of The Glass House, and I have trouble seeing how such generally toothless satire could get anyone in trouble. But then, there are some real lunatic ideologues on the ABC board, so you never know. It’ll be interesting to see if it gets picked up by some other station.
Anyway, [...]
So I was minding my own business, reading some news story about obesity research on mice, and I noticed an intriguing Adsense ad. It led me to something bizarre: Faith Meds [link]. No joke.
How do you feel when you wake up in the morning? Choosing a biblical lifestyle that emphasizes God-made, natural fruits, [...]
So I was minding my own business, reading some news story about obesity research on mice, and I noticed an intriguing Adsense ad. It led me to something bizarre: Faith Meds [link]. No joke.
How do you feel when you wake up in the morning? Choosing a biblical lifestyle that emphasizes God-made, natural fruits, [...]
