Sorry I've been away so long, but last weekend steve got really drunk at Misty's party, and the next morning I beheld a vision of the livejournal "pencil" logo in the pattern of the puke on his tuxedo jacket, and it reminded me that I really needed to get out and write ( Read more... )

So, I have noticed a few things about the dream world. Feel free to chime in if you've seen these things too, or don't know what I'm talking about. I'm hoping to come up with some more sets of information once I'm more familiar with it ( Read more... )

So, it looks like my penchant for collecting computers and rolling my own parallel clusters has finally gotten to people, and I'm getting a better office and some lab space in a nearby building. But, um, I was just over there, and ( Read more... )

Liz: "During this episode, you should take me in a manly fashion."
Me: "Because you're pretty?"

And there will be some cats this holiday season. So, I went to the drugstore to get some claritin, which has done a good job for me in the past. Undeterred by the placeholder for the product in question, I took the laminated card up to the pharmacy window, to find out that in order to buy such things in Washington, you have to sign and date a ( Read more... )

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It finally snowed, stuck, partially melted, and then turned to ice. So last night I took the car out snow-drifting. Ahh, ice. One of the few conditions that makes driving really fun. :)

Okay, that's it, I'm not playing this game anymore. Squall was already pushing it by not being blond, but it's physically painful for me to watch him refuse to hug the girl. Insufferable! So unless someone tells me that the next scene is Cloud from FFVII rushing in from off-camera and injecting Squall with 100 cc of "go ahead and hug your ( Read more... )

Me: "What have you done with Konrad's arm?"
Liz: "Arm, arm! What is 'arm?' "

The arm, of course, is what you use to hold the controller. ;)

We could reproduce the "prisoner's dilemma" algorithm competition, defining the basic "building blocks" of a "playing" algorithm by things like grudge-holding, natural cooperativeness, responsiveness, and memory. We could define a set of building blocks by a long string of alleles representing that algorithm. Then we could randomly pit them ( Read more... )