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Public Service Announcement for KI Students

Remember a while ago I was throwing out the idea of making an online KI portal? Well, we made it.

KIpedia is a wiki-based online resource for KI students. The "wiki-based" part means that anyone can post pages, edit pages, or make comments. It is, in a way, an experiment in student-directed learning -- ( Read more... )

Public service announcements: There's a US college fair at Suntec at 8.30am to 5pm at Suntec. I realize that I probably should have mentioned this earlier. The publicity for this event looks very patchy -- I only found out about it by word of mouth on Friday ( Read more... )

Pancake Cutting Puzzles

1. Suppose you have some pancakes -- two-dimensional areas that lie on a plane. The pancakes do not have to be nicely shaped -- they can be irregular, concave or even unconnected. Show that you can cut any pancake into two halves of equal area with just one straight cut. (The halves do not have to be of the same shape.)
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TestForecasted Doom (Pre-test)Forecasted Doom (Post-test)
KII don't know. People tell me that I'm supposed to be good at this.Within tolerable allowances.
PhysicsShould pose as much challenge as a piñata.Unexpectedly deadly!
ChemistryHuge amounts of doom. Exact magnitude depends on ability to remember chemical properties of second and third ( Read more... )

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Remember the eggdrop puzzle that we had last year? We were supposed to build a package that could protect an egg from smashing when being dropped three floors. It was fun -- but it could be made less nerve-wrecking by not counting it as part of the exam! This year also had a physics puzzle as part of the exam, but it was to build a bridge ( Read more... )

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Beirut - Elephant Gun
If I was young, I'd flee this town
I'd bury my dreams underground
As did I, we drink to die, we drink tonight

Went to PLAY! A Video Game Symphony on Friday. As a Final Fantasy music fan, I've been looking forward to this for a long time! Elsewhere in the world there are orchestras and music groups doing all sorts of cool things with video game music, like Dear Friends and More Friends and GC Concerts and 20020220 and The Black Mages, and when does ( Read more... )