I’m flying out to Auburn to attend the Mises economics seminar thing, so don’t count on me for “turning japanese” material this week. Also, feel free to leave Erin and Katie a comment too.
- Francis Crick RIP: DNA structure’s discoverer gave shoulders to stand on - “Crick and Watson famously puzzled out in 1953 that molecules of DNA, which stands for deoxyribonucleic acid and which makes up the genetic code of every living thing, string together in the form of a double helix.”
- How my program passed the Turing Test - “So, it’s Tuesday 2nd May 1989, 8.12pm in Ireland. I’ve logged out and gone off with my girlfriend, leaving Eliza (or “MGonz” as I called it) to mind the fort. So some guy on the Net decides to call me up for a chat. Someone from Drake University, Iowa, USA (the node DRAKE on BITNET) where it is early afternoon. He stays talking until 9.39pm Irish time, unaware that no one is at home. You could say therefore that my program passed the “Turing Test” (see What is the Turing Test?).”
- Iraqis pump, flex to honor Schwarzenegger - “It was the governor of California’s 57th birthday, and thousands of miles away in blisteringly hot Baghdad members of the Arnold Classic gym celebrated too, staging what they said was the country’s first postwar bodybuilding competition.”
- What is Lucid Dreaming? - “[L]ucid dreaming is simply dreaming while being aware you are dreaming. You can think of lucid dreaming as being conscious while dreaming. If, by chance, during a dream it suddenly dawns on you that you are dreaming, then you have experienced a lucid dream, regardless of whether you have been able to attain control of your dream.”
- AllofMP3.com - You can get entire albums for $2-3 in a number of different formats (including MP3, WMA, OGG AAC, etc.).
