Infinite sadness, little wisdom
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SADNESS ABOUNDS
SADNESS ABOUNDS
12/14/2003 01:41 PMthe other side .. Tim
Blair
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"SADNESS ABOUNDS"
"SADNESS ABOUNDS"
12/15/2003 10:29 PMIn the End, Sadness and Some Cheers, but
Mostly Relief
In the End, Sadness and Some Cheers, but
Mostly Relief
06/22/2004 02:27 AMOne common feeling in Connecticut was a sense of relief that Gov. John
G. Rowland's self-destruction had played itself out.
Scots cardinal speaks of sadness
Scots cardinal speaks of sadness
04/01/2005 06:13 AMThe leader of Scotland's Catholics says there is great sadness at news
that the Pope is gravely ill.
Set-Infinite-0.57
Set-Infinite-0.57
05/03/2004 04:40 PMSet-Infinite-0.43
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03/14/2003 06:16 PMSet-Infinite-0.59
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07/05/2004 09:45 AMSet-Infinite-0.58
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06/14/2004 05:52 PMSet-Infinite-0.55
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11/16/2003 10:27 AMSteve Minutillo :: messy-78 » PHP,
XML, and Character Encodings: a tale of
sadness, rage, and (data-)loss
Steve Minutillo :: messy-78 » PHP,
XML, and Character Encodings: a tale of
sadness, rage, and (data-)loss
06/27/2004 03:07 AMSteve Minutillo :: messy-78 » PHP, XML, and Character Encodings:
a tale of sadness, rage, and
(data-)loss
minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2004/6/17/php-xml-and-charact
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"The Infinite Cat Project"
"The Infinite Cat Project"
05/10/2004 03:11 AM"infinite cat project"
"infinite cat project"
06/12/2004 08:33 PMInfinite Secrets : Archimedes
Infinite Secrets : Archimedes
01/25/2004 04:14 PMNOVA : Infinite Secrets : Archimedeshttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh
/nova/archimedesThis website is the companion piece to
the PBS NOVA broadcast of "Infinite Secrets," a documentary relating
the discovery of the oldest of Archimedes' extant treatises. The
treatise was bought at auction, with none knowing that hidden under
the 13th Century prayer manuscript was a copy of an Archimedes work.
The site details the history of this palimpsest, the efforts
undertaken to do imaging and scanning of the badly deteriorated and
scraped Archimedes treatise, and the mathematical implications for the
find, as the palimpsest indicated that Archimedes was working on the
concept of calculating infinity; a precursor, in the minds of the
scholars who worked on this project, on the road to the calculus.
E-On Software announces Vue 5 Infinite
E-On Software announces Vue 5 Infinite
02/01/2005 09:55 PME-On Software on Monday announced that it will ship Vue 5 Infinite on
March 14. Designed for creating natural 3D environments, the software
offers all of the features found in Vue 4 Professional and adds
EcoSystem technology that populates scenery with animated plants,
rocks and objects; single-object and complete-scene export to major 3D
applications, including Cinema 4D, LightWave and Maya; G-Buffer and
Multi-Pass rendering with anti-aliased masks; multi-layer PSD, RLA and
RPF file format support; an OpenGL-based pre-rendering engine;
AccuShadows, which enables advanced shadow mapping; and more.
Trying to imagine hackers of cognition
and the infinite
Trying to imagine hackers of cognition
and the infinite
12/05/2003 01:49 PM
I've just read Mark Pilgrim's post, "The
infinite hotel", which I'm sure I'll need to re-read a few times
and chase down references to read. Also I'm reading Gödel, Escher, Bach again for the
third time, since I first read it in high school and needed corks in
my ears to prevent brain slurry from spilling out. I really need to
read more of this sort of thing, refresh myself on all the math I took
in college, and explore some of this really abstract stuff.
Something I've been musing about lately, without any real novel ideas
or insights, is about the history of computation and these thinking
machines. Not history in terms of events and when, but in terms of
the concepts and discoveries leading up to keyboards, screens, and
code today. Thinking about things like recursion, and sets, and
logic, and all the patterns and revolutions in thought that are the
basis for everyday business and life today.
I've been trying to imagine the world in each moment where each of
these things were new, when these things were worked out in minds and
on paper. When there were no computational engines available to carry
out calculations or work out conclusions to logical constructions.
Today, these discoveries are crystallized in computing architectures,
and so geeks hack and play and learn by example. The construction of
the CPU is objective fact, independent of subjective thought or
understanding, and the behavior of code demonstrates the laws and
rules. Before, the rules were carefully reasoned out and intuited
from observations on the objective universe, but now they're
assimilated by example from mechanically working artifacts.
I'm not sure I'm expressing this very well, or if my thoughts are very
well formed altogether, but I'm trying to imagine mental life without
readily available, objectively existing computational artifacts with
which we can play, without prohibitive investments of effort or time.
No scripting languages with which to just try out logical
constructions. No calculators with which to solve formulae. All
manual, all by hand, all worked out by careful thought and precision.
I'm trying to imagine what geeks like me, as I am today, would be like
at a time when everyone dealing in these things was an abstraction
astronaut, and there was not really a such thing as
that-which-just-works or worse-is-better. Does this make any sense?
Again, this is not really an expression of anything coherent or novel.
This is mostly me just in awe of how we got here, and trying to get
myself above the mode of being just a hacker chasing down the
phylogeny of all that's come before, and into some meta-mode of
understanding of the things behind what makes these thinking machines
and the thinking itself work. Maybe after a few more decades of this
I'll have some thoughts worth sharing synthesized from all that I've
learned.
"The infinite hotel [dive into mark]"
"The infinite hotel [dive into mark]"
12/06/2003 03:21 PMRe: Driver for display goes to a
infinite loop by viewing a html!
Re: Driver for display goes to a
infinite loop by viewing a html!
08/11/2004 01:59 PMMike Pumford (Aug 11 2004)
Mike Stanfill, Private Hand - The
Infinite Cat Project
Mike Stanfill, Private Hand - The
Infinite Cat Project
05/07/2004 03:41 AMWatching cats watching cats watching cats watching cats .. the
infinite cat project
privatehand.com/infinite
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Driver for display goes to a infinite
loop by viewing a html!
Driver for display goes to a infinite
loop by viewing a html!
08/11/2004 11:42 AMBipin Gautam (Aug 11 2004)
Pickup Games, The Reckoning - Strange
Adventures in Infinite Space
Pickup Games, The Reckoning - Strange
Adventures in Infinite Space
06/18/2004 10:01 PM
MATT GALLANT -- Well, my week is up, and
I've saved as a parting shot the ultimate pickup game: Strange
Adventures in Infinite Space, developed by Digital Eel and published by Cheapass Games. Games take just
minutes.
There's not as much brain power required as there is in the other
games from this week; in fact your score really has more to do with
luck than anything else. But despite having probably less strategy
involved than a game of Freecell, SAIS feels like it's smarter than it
is, because it recalls elements of games with more depth, with its
goals of space exploration, combat, trade and collection.
The demo is pretty crippled compared to the full version, but the
full version costs only $15. Well, the PC and Mac versions do. There's
PocketPC and PalmOS versions too (new Tapwave Zodiac owners take
note!), available from Astraware for $19.99.
And with that fifth and final recommendation, I'm done! All five of
the games I've mentioned this week are great for spending a few
minutes with, but so playable that you'll be able to play for hours.
Have fun, Gizmodo!
Read [SAIS
Info Page]
BugTraq: Re: Driver for display goes to
a infinite loop by viewing a html!
BugTraq: Re: Driver for display goes to
a infinite loop by viewing a html!
08/11/2004 03:42 PMSecurityFocus Aug 11 2004 6:09PM GMT
"Fark satires New York Post then crawls
up own rectum an infinite number of
times..."
"Fark satires New York Post then crawls
up own rectum an infinite number of
times..."
07/12/2004 04:00 AMWisdom in Numbers
Wisdom in Numbers
06/24/2004 11:38 AMWhen it comes to money and more, lots of heads are better than one.
comic wisdom
comic wisdom
06/17/2004 01:31 PMprotein wisdom
protein wisdom
04/24/2004 11:48 AMProtein Wisdom interview with Noam Chomsky .. Jeff Goldstein ..
interview
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Can You Purchase Wisdom?
Can You Purchase Wisdom?
12/10/2002 05:50 AM"Conventional Wisdom"
"Conventional Wisdom"
02/05/2005 09:45 PMwisdom from the north
wisdom from the north
03/06/2004 01:51 AMThanks to Michael Geist for alerting me to this: There's an
extraordinary decision (unanimous) by the Canadian Supreme Court that
all looking for balance in this "war" should read:
LSUC v. CCH. As Michael summarizes it: "the court now
appears to be considering all copyright law interpretation through the
lens of balancing user rights with creators rights."
"protein wisdom"
"protein wisdom"
04/13/2004 09:53 AMNature's Wisdom
Nature's Wisdom
03/25/2005 11:31 AM
The World Expo
2005 opened
doors to
visitors
today.
Attractions include
robo
ts, a
mammoth,
and participating countries from
Australia to
Zimbabwe. Some think
that in the age of the Internet and intercontinental travel, world
expos are becoming
o
bsolete; others think the Aichi Expo might spawn a new industry:
industrial tourism.
The last Expo in Japan was held in Osaka in 1970, and brought us
arguably
the world's ugliest artifact.
andrewcoyne.com: Collective wisdom
andrewcoyne.com: Collective wisdom
06/26/2004 07:32 AMCoyne's Conservative Echo Chamber .. aggregating seat predictions ..
taking your bets
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The wisdom or capriciousness of disgust
The wisdom or capriciousness of disgust
09/04/2004 07:16 PM
Conserva
tives have been talking about the Wisdom of Disgust for a long
time -- most recently with regard to human cloning, but usually,
of course, homosexuality.
Nussbaum counters
at Reason Online. (And Kimball
rips
her a new one at the New Criterion.)
The wisdom of Microsoft's Solomon
The wisdom of Microsoft's Solomon
03/23/2005 08:18 PMThe Star Online Mar 24 2005 12:55AM GMT
Convention Wisdom From the CEO: Day Two
With the Democrats
Convention Wisdom From the CEO: Day Two
With the Democrats
07/28/2004 09:23 AMI went to see Rod O'Connor, CEO of the convention. And I asked him a
lot of "why" questions. (Including why he's called CEO.) He has a
coherent story. That doesn't mean wholly convincing, only that it
holds together what's happening this week in the Fleet Center. His
view of what political conventions are? Message delivery over
multiple platforms, with television yet the biggest deliverer. But
that too is a convention-- of thought. It
can change.
Fighting Conventional Wisdom
Fighting Conventional Wisdom
08/17/2004 11:05 AM
Why 2004 won't be like
1984. A phenomenal read detailing why Apple's reluctance to open up
iPod is not the harbinger of doom that so many pundits claim it
is. The horror! Apple may have learned from its mistakes with
Macintosh 20 years ago and guess what? Macintosh's failure had little
to do with licensing. That is, if you agree with the analysis over at
daringfireball.net. This article points out why the media pundits are
wrong about Apple's reluctance to open up iPod and shows why their
position today is entirely different, and stronger, than 20 years ago.
Let the flame wars begin!
Wisdom set for Coronation cameo
Wisdom set for Coronation cameo
05/05/2004 12:52 PMComic veteran Sir Norman Wisdom, 89, is to appear as a fitness fanatic
in Coronation Street.
Robot Wisdom Webl0g
Robot Wisdom Webl0g
12/03/2003 07:33 AMThe guy who coined the term "blog". Links to the scattered universe
and James Joyce stuff, to boot .. Jorn's page looks like mine now ..
Robot WisdomJorn .. "Robot Wisdom" .. RobotWisdom .. blogger ..
Ugly
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OpenOffice.org Off the Wall: Fonts of
Wisdom
OpenOffice.org Off the Wall: Fonts of
Wisdom
04/16/2004 06:22 AMAdvice for installing and choosing fonts in OpenOffice.org.
Beautiful Atrocities: Disposable Wisdom
Beautiful Atrocities: Disposable Wisdom
08/29/2004 10:55 AMBeautiful Atrocities Pocket Guide To The Blogosphere .. blogger likes
and dislikes ..
mentioned
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