"Natural Selection Acts On The Quantum world"
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Natural Selection v3.0 Beta 5
Natural Selection v3.0 Beta 5
09/04/2004 12:15 PMNatural Selection v3.0 Released
Natural Selection v3.0 Released
01/25/2004 12:50 PMNatural Selection 3.0 beta 3
Natural Selection 3.0 beta 3
02/11/2004 05:50 PMNatural Selection v3.0 Beta 4
Natural Selection v3.0 Beta 4
04/24/2004 02:20 PMNatural Selection WhichBot
Natural Selection WhichBot
10/28/2003 11:06 PMWhichBot v0.8 released
Air Force Selection Board gets
computerised pilot selection system
Air Force Selection Board gets
computerised pilot selection system
01/04/2005 06:46 AMStar of Mysore Jan 4 2005 10:42AM GMT
World Stonex Extends Global Reach in the
$20 Billion Natural Stone Industry with
Breton, Tekmar Marble, Others
World Stonex Extends Global Reach in the
$20 Billion Natural Stone Industry with
Breton, Tekmar Marble, Others
06/17/2005 03:23 PMWorld Stonex, the Online Marketplace for the sale of goods and
services by a diverse community of small and large businesses in the
natural stone industry, continues to extend its global reach of
suppliers to that industry with the addition of companies in Italy,
Turkey, Palestine and Egypt. [PRWEB Jun 12, 2005]
It's only natural: Evaluation
natural-language dialogs
(VoiceXMLPlanet.com)
It's only natural: Evaluation
natural-language dialogs
(VoiceXMLPlanet.com)
07/18/2002 07:34 PMQuantum Computers Are A Quantum Leap
Closer, Say Purdue Physicists
Quantum Computers Are A Quantum Leap
Closer, Say Purdue Physicists
04/30/2004 04:57 AMSpace Daily Apr 30 2004 9:09AM GMT
Nano World: Nano for quantum computers
Nano World: Nano for quantum computers
04/09/2005 05:19 AMWorld Peace Herald Apr 9 2005 8:03AM GMT
Standards Lowdown: Standards Selection
is Vendor Selection
Standards Lowdown: Standards Selection
is Vendor Selection
06/23/2004 06:58 PMJust as the open source movement has changed attitudes to software and
software vendors, so phenomena like RSS may be changing attitudes to
the creation and maintenance of industry standards.
Random Acts of JD
Random Acts of JD
03/13/2003 10:25 AMJD Lasica talks about blogging as "random acts of journalism." Good
phrase, good thoughts....
Selection Bug Fixed
Selection Bug Fixed
10/28/2003 11:08 PMI fixed the bug where selection copies the raw HTML source and not
the rendered source. I know that will make a lot of people very
happy. It's especially satisfying fixing this bug, since I'm the one
who caused it in the first place. ;)
On the GUI Selection in UserLinux
On the GUI Selection in UserLinux
12/15/2003 08:04 PMIn the original UserLinux white paper, I made it clear that the
project would play favorites among the software choices available to
it, and that the resulting process would be painful. You can't say
that you weren't warned. But it turns out not to be particularly
painful, except for one issue: the selection of the GUI used in the
system. The selection of GNOME as the GUI of the UserLinux project has
raised a good deal of opposition from KDE supporters.
Unnatural Selection
Unnatural Selection
02/01/2005 10:05 PMAn MIT
Technology Review article offers a good introduction to the use of
evolutionary algorithms for hardware design. By replacing natural
selection with a user-defined fitness function genetic algorithms use
random mutation and recombination of the most fit designs to produce
continually better designs. The article includes plenty of real-world
examples of the results including
"a corkscrew contraption small
enough to fit in a wine glass, yet able to send a wide-beam radio wave
from space to Earth. It resembles nothing any sane radio engineer
would
build on her own." The article also touches on John von Neumann's
"complexity barrier" and the origins of genetic algorithms in the
1950s.
washingtonpost.com: Pre-9/11 Acts Led To
Alerts
washingtonpost.com: Pre-9/11 Acts Led To
Alerts
08/03/2004 09:01 AMPre-9/11 Acts Led to Alerts, Officials Not Sure Al Qaeda Continued To
Spy on Buildings .. The Washington Post
reports
washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A35466-2004Aug2?language=print
er
track this
site | 4 links
Random Acts of Spamness
Random Acts of Spamness
01/16/2004 11:27 AMU.S. Acts to End Web-Site Tax Scam
U.S. Acts to End Web-Site Tax Scam
04/14/2004 10:37 PMWashington Post Apr 15 2004 2:28AM GMT
Pre-9/11 Acts Led To Alerts
(washingtonpost.com)
Pre-9/11 Acts Led To Alerts
(washingtonpost.com)
08/02/2004 10:29 PMwashingtonpost.com - Most of the al Qaeda surveillance of five
financial institutions that led to a new terrorism alert Sunday was
conducted before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and authorities are not
sure whether the casing of the buildings has continued since then,
numerous intelligence and law enforcement officials said yesterday.
Random acts of violets
Random acts of violets
02/19/2004 06:15 PMVia BoingBoing comes this timely meme from a Twin Cities blog: Send a
bouquet of flowers to one of the gay couples getting married in San
Francisco. Flowers on the Bay will deliver your bouquet to a random
couple. Anonymity seems to go both ways in this case, so it's
suggested that cards say, "With love, from Boston, Massachusetts."
"Call it The Big Gay Bouquet call it Flowers from the Heartland. Call
it whatever you want, but help us get this off the ground. " I called
Flowers on the Bay (1 888 217 9119) but the line was busy....
School selection under scrutiny
School selection under scrutiny
07/28/2004 06:21 AMMinisters are considering calls to reduce some specialist schools'
right to select 10% of pupils by "aptitude".
U.S. Endorses Selection of Iraq PM (AP)
U.S. Endorses Selection of Iraq PM (AP)
05/29/2004 01:56 AMAP - The United States has warmly endorsed a decision by the Iraqi
Governing Council to select a longtime exile with strong ties to the
CIA to be the new prime minister of Iraq's interim government despite
U.N. concerns over his past links.
Countdown to veep selection
Countdown to veep selection
06/28/2004 10:11 AMNew: Print Selection Service 1.0
New: Print Selection Service 1.0
08/05/2004 10:21 AMPrint Selection Service adds a Print Selection command to the Services
menu, which will print the current selection in any application that
supports Services.
Teachers warn against selection
Teachers warn against selection
03/24/2005 08:38 AMWidening vocational education risks creating a divided system, say
teachers.
Xoxide and Link Selection
Xoxide and Link Selection
07/01/2004 03:56 PMXoxide: So, here's our
first LinkWorth
advertiser, and the process of getting this one up was
eye-opening.
At the risk of sounding like a shill, approving this link was kind
of a no-brainer. Click around their store for a while and you'll see
what I mean — I was like a kid in a candy store here. I'm not a
case modder at all, but they have some insanely cool stuff for
sale.
I have two other links pending, which I'm trying to evalulate right
now. The questions I'm asking myself are (1) are there any reasons I
shouldn't link to them? Do they have crappy service? Are they
deceptive in anyway? Are a lot of people ranting about how they
suck?
And (2), is there any reason I really should link to them?
Are they cool in some way? If I weren't getting paid, would I make a
blog entry about them? (With Xoxide, I think I can answer "yes" to
that question, given the stuff Joe pointed out over there.)
This is the harder question, because I have a pending link that
isn't objectionable in any way, but it's just....well, kind of blah.
It's an example of someone trying to force a business model that's
probably not going to happen. I'm not sure it really adds any value
to the Internet as a whole.
(Another question: why don't I get this uptight about the Google
ads? Probably because I have no control over them. I have plausible
deniability there. With LinkWorth, however, I'm proactively making
the decision to include the link, and that's a little harder.)
Am I being naive here? Is the hope of accepting paid links
—but only good paid links — at all realistic? I
don't know, but stay tuned and I'll keep you informed about how it
works out.
Click here to comment on this entry
Microsoft Still Accused of Antitrust
Acts
Microsoft Still Accused of Antitrust
Acts
01/17/2004 10:57 PMAP via Daily Press Jan 17 2004 5:53AM GMT
"Odious acts of hatred" in France
"Odious acts of hatred" in France
07/09/2004 11:49 AMChirac makes national appeal to stop attacks on Muslims and Jews.
The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798
The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798
12/19/2004 03:40 PMLots of interesting comments and questions. Let me go back to the
beginning, to a time less than a decade after the United States
adopted our Constitution. In 1798, there was a bitter political
division in the young nation between the Federalists (led by John
Adams and Alexander Hamilton) and the Republican (led by Thomas
Jefferson and James Madison). In the elections of 1796, the
Federalists had retained control of both houses of Congress and Adams
had defeated Jefferson by a scant three electoral votes. It's
important to understand that at this time in history Americans were
deeply uncertain about the nation's future. Would democracy work?
There was no good precedent. It was truly an experiment, and no one
was sure the nation wouldn't simply fall apart. The Federalists
represented the propertied class. They were very concerned about
stability and security, and were very anxious about the passions and
irresponsibility of the common man. The Republicans exalted liberty
over security and were deeply suspicious of the Federalists.
At this time, a war raged in Europe between England and France. The
United States tried to maintain its neutrality so it could both avoid
war and continue to engage in commerce with both all sides. But in
1798 the United States entered into a treaty with England that
infuriated the French. Adams put the nation on war footing. The
Federalists gave him a larger army and a larger navy. We were on the
brink of declaring war. The Republicans were furious. They were much
more sympathetic to the French (who had overthrown their monarchy) and
much more hostile to the English (who were still ruled by a monarch).
It was in this context that the Federalists enacted the Alien and
Sedition Act.
The Alien Act empowered President Adams to arrest, detain, and deport
any non-citizen he found to be a danger to the security of the nation.
The individual was given no right to a hearing and no right to present
evidence in his defense. The Republicans objected that this was
unconstitutional; the Federalists responded that aliens had no rights
under the United States Constitution because they were not part of "We
the People." The Sedition Act effectively made it a crime for any
person to criticize the President, the Congress or the Government of
the United States. The Republicans vehemently object that the Act
violated the First Amendment; the Federalists argued that in time of
war it was essential to stifle criticism of the government because if
the People lost confidence in the government they would not make the
sacrifices war demands.
The Federalist prosecutors and judges used the Sedition Act
exclusively against Republicans, especially against Republican
congressmen and editors who criticized the President. Although the
Federalists argued that this legislation was necessary because the
nation was on the brink of war, the real reason the Federalists wanted
it was to silence Republican criticism and thus to ensure that Adams
would defeat Jefferson in the election of 1800.
The plan backfired. The American people rose up in protest against
these Act and elected Jefferson. This led to the demise of the
Federalist Party. Jefferson pardoned all those who had been convicted
under the Act. Fifty years later, Congress declared that the Sedition
Act of 1798 was unconstitutional, and the Supreme Court has never
since missed an opportunity to declare that the Act was
unconstitutional in the "court of history."
There are (at least) two lessons we can learn fro this episode: First,
clever politicians will often take advantage of a wartime atmosphere
to enact policies that will serve their partisan ends. Second, it will
often fall to the People themselves to protect their civil lliberties.
They cannot always rely on elected officials or judges to protect them
for them.
Do you think any of this is relevant to the present?
Eurovision acts prepare for show
Eurovision acts prepare for show
05/14/2004 01:38 PMFans of the Eurovision Song Contest prepare for Saturday's event, held
live in Istanbul.
Australia acts over terror suspect
Australia acts over terror suspect
06/03/2004 12:49 AMThe Australian authorities begin legal moves to appeal after a man
held on terrorism charges is given bail.
BT acts against child porn sites
BT acts against child porn sites
06/08/2004 07:41 AMBlocking illegal sites is only one stage in the fight against online
paedophiles, say experts.
US acts after Iraq prisoner abuse
US acts after Iraq prisoner abuse
04/29/2004 11:11 PMA US general and six other officers face disciplinary action after TV
showed Iraqi inmates being abused.
Wi-Fi Alliance acts on dodgy wireless
kit
Wi-Fi Alliance acts on dodgy wireless
kit
07/20/2004 08:02 AMUniversal connection, or else
Regulator acts on internet scam
Regulator acts on internet scam
07/16/2004 04:58 AMNews.ft.com - Fri Jul 16, 06:05 am GMT
FCC acts to limit digital TV piracy
FCC acts to limit digital TV piracy
11/05/2003 04:10 AMBoston Globe Nov 5 2003 3:59AM ET
Ofcom acts to combat 'slamming'
Ofcom acts to combat 'slamming'
04/14/2005 07:06 AMThe Register Apr 14 2005 11:50AM GMT
"How Websites Learn | Acts of Volition."
"How Websites Learn | Acts of Volition."
06/14/2004 09:52 AMZanzibar outlaws homosexual acts
Zanzibar outlaws homosexual acts
04/14/2004 06:33 AMZanzibar's parliament passes a new bill that outlaws homosexuality and
lesbianism.
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