I just came across “’05 Annual Performance Review: Albert Einstein” by Peter Norvig. It’s a funny piece. I particularly liked “In addition, I would have to say your output, while at times quite extraordinary, has been inconsistent. In Q1 you managed to publish one paper in the final two weeks of the quarter. In Q2 […]
20Q.net This is the classic game of Twenty Questions. An experiment in Artificial Intelligence, the program is very simple but its behavior is complex. All questions and objects were entered by other people playing the game. ACM Queue – Social Bookmarking in the Enterprise – Social bookmarking tools are taking off on the Web. Do […]
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Tagged baking, cs, style guideFrom Madhur Jaffrey’s Spice Kitchen. This recipe is a favorite of ours. The end result gets rave reviews. 1 1/2 pounds salmon fillet skin removed. salt freshly ground black pepper 4 tablespoons olive oil 1/4 teaspoon cumin seeds 1/4 teaspoon brown mustard seeds 1/8 teaspoon fennel seeds 1/8 teaspoon fenugreek seeds 1/8 teaspoon kalonji A […]
A study released today by Pew Interenet & American Life Project Search engine use shoots up in the past year and edges towards email as the primary internet application described searching as a close second to email. — And today’s special is .. Architecture is frozen music. – Goethe. 2211
Bookmarks added this past week: ‘Tagging’ gives Web a human meaning | CNET News.com ‘Tagging’ gives Web a human meaning | A growing number of Web sites are implementing tagging systems as a way to bring order and organization to information. | November 15, 2005, 11:18 PM PT 43 places “43 Places helps you make […]
Last October I wrote an entry About converting from ASCII to integer, integer to ASCII, and casting ints as chars and chars as ints. The reference to more information has changed and I’ve found some other code that may be helpful. Some helpful examples are contained in Converting Strings To/From Ints: atoi, itoa, sprintf and […]
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Just yesterday in CPSC 104 we were discussing whether it was appropriate to use Wikipedia as a reference. This article addresses that issue. Several experts rate some of the entries. Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Can you trust Wikipedia?
Strawberries & Pestisides & Health & Ozone Layer
U.S. Farmers Use Pesticide Despite Treaty – Yahoo! News I came across this article this evening. It was the first I’d heard about the use of methyl bromide, which is strange given it’s effects on the workers in the growing fields, it’s effect on the ozone, and the fact that a major producer is located […]