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Push
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No comments on PushPush, Nevada, the game with the million dollar prize, is on its last legs.
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First Words launch
The First Words competition (where we’re asking people what they think will be the first words on Mars) is about to launch ‘officially’ in under an hour. It’s the product of a lot of thought and work, and it’s nice to see that it’s all pretty much finally done. All the essential functionality is there…
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The important questions
Ned Beauman at Bullets has made a post on my comments about the research I’m doing at Cambridge. I agree with what he’s saying, in that it’s really only the information that matters when you’re talking about cognition or consciousness, but many other people wouldn’t; all of this is based on the assumption that the…
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Aloha
Alas and alack, &c, I haven’t been able to update much recently. I’ve just returned to Cambridge, which has been having unusually glorious weather, and have been unpacking various things. I’ve also been busy getting up to speed with the research project I’m doing this year, on (essentially) information processing in neurones. What this means…
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Mr. DeLong’s Eight Words
Brad DeLong, a member of the Culture mailing list and professor of economics at UC Berkeley, is much famed for being an advisor to President Clinton. Everyone was suitably impressed by this, until Brad eventually admitted that he’d only said “eight words to the guy in my entire life.” We couldn’t take a challenge like…
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Charlie
An excellent article in the Times today examined the content of Prince Charles’ letters to ministers, and found them sadly lacking in logic and facts. I’m not too concerned about Prince Charles writing to government ministers since this article echoes my thoughts that the letters don’t say anything useful anyway, apart from woolly heartful platitudes.
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James Webb telescope
For several years I’ve been reading about the Hubble Space Telescope’s successor, the Next Generation Space Telescope (now renamed the James Webb Telescope). I’d always assumed that it’d simply be a bigger, more expensive version of the Hubble – hardly anything worth writing home about. I was wrong; the people at NASA have been busy…
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Dead Air
I just finished reading Iain Banks’ new (non-SF) novel Dead Air. I finished it in less than 24 hours; it’s one of those books that reads very easily, unlike most of his other novels. Dead Air was certainly entertaining enough and I never became bored, but as many others have noted, it doesn’t have much…
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Small World Big Piano Silliness
A conversation with my girlfriend from yesterday, paraphrased: Me: “This is the Jools Holland album I bought the other day. I read an interesting review which was generally positive except about the silly piano flourishes that Jools always seems to squeeze into places where they shouldn’t be.” Her: “Well, maybe people like him for the…
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