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P != NP
Big news this Sunday was a paper released that claims to be a serious proof on the P = NP problem. Big enough to bring me out of livejournal limbo for at least a day. It's a draft paper by Vinay Deolalikar, and I think it's been pulled for the moment while they are addressing some typographic errors and some incorrect methods in the paper, but its ( Read more... ) -
holdren, 'Ecoscience', population control
I'm shocked and a little confused at the insane conservative backlash about John P. Holdren, Obama's "science czar" and this textbook, EcoscienceThe book details some rather grotesque methods that population might be brought under control in a crisis. Nobody is denying that the strategies and techniques inside it are terrible things. But the entire ( Read more... ) -
Data recovered!
I have recovered 100% of the lost data. -
Misery.
Misery is hard drive recovery. I was a stupider back then, and I should have taken every opportunity to get important data off of a raid 0 stripe. Still, I'm not going down without a fight. I've been sitting here half the night, and using an external drive enclosure, have tried orienting, spinning, and nursing the drive to a full spin and carefully ( Read more... ) -
magisteria, or lack thereof
I was reading Darwin's Dangerous Idea on the plane again, and found this wonderful bit around page 100, thought I would post it here for you guys to read:
One reader of an early draft of this chapter complained at this point, saying that by treating the hypothesis of God as just one more scientific hypothesis, to be evaluated by the standards of ( Read more... ) -
swine flu news
Hey guys,
Just thought I'd get more information out on the swine flu and what we've learned about it.
A summary of some of the news lineups today about the swine flu and it's effect.
Genetic information on the virus, some interview quotes from researchers.
CDC information on symptoms and risk groups (what they have so far anyway.) Things that ( Read more... ) -
swine flu
The media and their terrible 24 hour news cycle have locked their jaws onto this Swine Influenza that has hit this season. Anyway, just in case anyone is buying into the hype ( Read more... )
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