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  • Trek Geektitude

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    A discussion about chainsaws in Star Trek, elicited by a recent Enterprise episode: “Historically, the most often raised Star Trek technology issue has involved bathrooms. Burning questions such as: “How many bathrooms? And where are they located? What are the fixtures like? Did Starfleet adopt the hideous American ‘low flow’ design? Or like most patriots,…

  • Kurzweilwatch

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    Interesting to see that Ray Kurzweil (so-called AI pioneer) is still using his same old Ramona demonstration at conferences nearly two years on from when I first saw it. Come on Ray – it wasn’t that good the first time round, and it certainly isn’t now.

  • I don’t understand

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    The three words which I find most difficult to say are, ‘I don’t understand.’ Today, I was doing a bit of programming to do with convolving histograms and the like, and I had to sort out the axes. I asked my supervisor, who tried to explain it to me. “What you have to do is…

  • TerraQuest

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    TerraQuest – an “online interactive game [that is] a blend between a mystery and a scavenger hunt.” Launching this fall, it looks a bit like the AI game although I found the trailer to be considerably cheesy. I don’t know how they’re going to limit the game to people over 18, either. But it has…

  • .hack

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    .hack – a Japanese “simulated MMORPG” game. What a bizarre and wonderful concept!

  • Skwerls

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    During one of our classes today, we talked about the possible causes of Parkinson’s disease. One of the lecturers mentioned that in Kentucky, researchers thought they’d found a possible link between eating squirrel brains and Parkinson’s; 12 out of 42 people they surveyed with Parkinson’s ate squirrel brains, leading them to think that perhaps Parkinson’s…

  • More on Buffy

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    On Buffy: As has been pointed out by others, everything boils down to whether it can be demonstrated that an AI-type Buffy game would be commercially viable. My opinion is that it has not been demonstrated. No games have generated a large enough audience to be commercially viable – not even the AI game (although…

  • Buffy Online

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    [Update: Read Dan’s response to this post along with my comments on his response.] There’s a bit of talk at the moment of how an AI-type game set in the Buffy universe would be a good thing. I think in general, yes, it wouldn’t be bad, but it wouldn’t be without its faults. Also, I…

  • An Evening with George Dyson

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    A review of a lecture given by George Dyson about Project Orion, America’s planned nuclear bomb-propelled spacecraft.

  • Funny Trek?

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    Continuing the Trek theme (don’t worry, it won’t last forever), here’s a list of funniest Voyager quotes. Believe me, they’re funny! Well, I think so, anyway.