In the first of my recent posts on the technological singularity, I remarked on something I called the "Ramanujan Syndrome". Modern biographers of the famous Tamil mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan have often noted that his spiritual devoutness was over-romanticized, as contemporaries such as G. H. Hardy observed. Equally, however, there has in ( Read more... )

I must say, things are looking up.

( Fresh versions of AI and Database Courses )

Achtung, updates! I'm getting caught up.

The 27 Nov 2005 entry has a meme that I never finished.
The 01 Dec 2005 entry has my Nanowrimo time log (punch in, punch out, write on, write off, Bana-san) for this year. No pain, no gain!

I should have written another "can u pls help me" diatribe yesterday, but instead I'll just mention that today martinsamuel, ( Read more... )

Just at that moment, Professor Pietro Baglioni looked forth from the window, and called loudly, in a tone of triumph mixed with horror, to the thunder-stricken man of science: "Rappaccini! Rappaccini! And is this the upshot of your experiment?"
    -"Rappacini's Daughter", Nathaniel Hawthorne

( Computer science fundamentals: thanks to all who joined the discussion )

UK Trip 2005: A Tronkie Travellogue
Day 13: London, England to Manhattan, KS, USA

( They mean every flavour! )