I started working on this post a loooooong time ago -- back in February of this year, when dinosaurs roamed the earth. I wrote up about 4/5 of it, was called away, and forgot to ever return to it. So yes, the blog posts I'm linking to are several months out of date, and I'm sure this debate probably progressed quite nicely without me. But I'm ( Read more... )

Ollock's Jed Blog. It's the blog of a human, Vinceon, who's been Marysued into Ollock's (very interesting!) conworld. It feels so good to read about a sci-fi world that's had this much detail and work put into it. Well, there's really no story -- it's all about the world(s), and that's what makes it so cool. Plus, y'know, the good writing and all ( Read more... )

Grad students sharing amusing things their undergrads are doing, or that they did when they were undergrads. I haven't laughed so hard in months. Seriously, go read the first bit of it. Sigh, unfortunately, after about page 14 it degenerates into unfunny stuff -- I don't know if it recovers, and I don't intend to find out. I have things to read ( Read more... )

An interesting idea for fighting spam. I don't actually know if this works, because I don't know if spambots actually work this way, but linking can't do any harm.

Edit: Wow, I am getting too lazy with checking that I close the proper tags. < /i > and < /a > have been programmed into muscle memory such that I confuse them way too much.

Every thesis ever written.

saizai just sent round the schedule for the 2nd Language Creation Conference, and, wow, just wow. Squee. Yay. Party. I really, really can't wait. This makes me ridiculously happy. Unnumbered thanks to Sai, David Peterson, the other organizers, and the speakers (including David Salo!).

( The schedule! )

Someone, apparently, has finally laid them out.

I can't say I understand half the terminology used, but this is either HUGE or total BS. Either way, worth a linkto.

"Neurons are functionally integrated in expansive neural networks, with each neuron receiving up to thousands of inputs from other neurons. However, the neurons are not actually physically connected to one another; there is a tiny gap that separates neurons, called a synapse ( Read more... )

Heheheheh.

So my parents and I just had a big College Choice Discussion (tm). We blathered about various topics for a while...then suddenly they bust out with: "We think you should go to MIT ( Read more... )