People keep saying the many-worlds interpretation is untestable. Nothing could be farther from the truth! It's just a little bit expensive and ethically problematic ( Read more... )

Greplin Programming Challenge spoilers below the cut.

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The next time someone says that randomness is just a property of how values are generated... I'm going to send them a gigabyte of thermal noise. And then I'm going to send them a message saying "replace this with that data I just sent you" and ask how many bytes it took to say that ( Read more... )

Quoth Structure In Fives: Designing Effective Organizations:

This is a book in fives. In this first chapter, we introduce a set of basic mechanisms used to achieve coordination among divided tasks. They number five. Later in this chapter, we develop a visual representation of the organization to help guide us through the book. This has five parts ( Read more... )

Anyone who believes that the theory of evolution implies moral darwinism, and who also believes in the theory of gravity, has a moral duty to go jump off a cliff.

So I learned from http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10770 that apparently there's a period of a couple of weeks after a stroke that the adult brain is more plastic than usual (which is why it's a good idea to begin intensive therapy and relearning sooner rather ( Read more... )

There seem to be no reasonable motive for aliens to show up on Earth in flying saucers. It stands to reason, then, that aliens that have showed up on Earth in flying saucers are cloudcuckoolanders whose motives are completely arbitrary and ridiculous to us ( Read more... )

My friend, Tony, does prop work in Hollywood. Before he was big and famous, he would sell jewelry and such at Ren Faires and the like. One day I'm there, shooting the shit with him, when a guy comes up and looks at some of the crystals that Tony is selling. he finally zeroes in on one and gets all gaga over the bit of quartz. He informs Tony that ( Read more... )

< rahikkala> I fail mad at sleeping!!!
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<@ari> And since it seems I'm going to keep failing mad at sleeping for a while, I might as well describe the reason why it seems I'm failing mad at sleeping
<@ari> I listened to the radio last summer for a decent amount of time
<@ari> ( Read more... )

<@ari> HAHAHAHAHAHAH, SHIT
<@ari> SO I TRIED DANCING SOME AYU TRANCE 2 SHIT
<@ari> A 36-MINUTE STEPMANIA SONG
<@ari> I WAS DOING WELL UNTIL SHIT SUDDENLY SPEEDS UP LIKE 8X AT
<@ari> WELL
<@ari> I DON'T KNOW WHAT PART
<@ari> BUT I SUSPECT IT WAS 34 MINUTES
<@ari> DIDN'T TIME THAT SHIT
<@ari> SHOULD HAVE THOUGH
<@ari> SHIT WAS... WELL... WOULDN'T SAY ( Read more... )