So I spent most of the day wrestling with Hibernate and Scala. I was going to title this "Hibernate Annoyances," but that's a bit unfair. Generally, Hibernate and Scala work together very easily. But there are a couple of problems, and a bit of redemption at the end.

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So, Scientific American just ran a short piece by Kaushik Basu about the Traveler's Dilemma. Basu describes the game and explains why its interpretation causes some problems. He also mentions a few possible ways out. (Coincidentally, Scott Aaronson recently mentioned a similar issue in a totally different context, noting that people only tend to ( Read more... )

I updated my web site, including for the first time in several years a little bit of actual content. Mostly it was just an excuse to try to think of all the random web sites that I have some publicly visible account on (social networks, etc.), and put a bunch of links in one place. As much as I hate MySpace and stuff, it's kind of nice that someone ( Read more... )