I'm as surprised as anyone.. :-o

Though not a bad choice

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X-posted from Quants

A market I wasn't aware of before is the curious market for weather.
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I wrote a post on how people are going to die in the future. A delightfully morbid topic :-)

Crossposted to forward_looking

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I wrote this as a comment to a story in the new scientist blog which reported on google wave and its ways of mixing e-mail and chat. In particular, you get to see the other persons' text as it is typed.My first chat by computer in '94 was via a BBS system (MBBS to be precise) and I could see every letter of the other person, as he typed it. It was ( Read more... )

Tweenbots wins my price for cutest robot of the month. :-)



It also showcases a simple strategy from getting from A to B with a limited ability both to navigate and to communicate. (A certain friend of mine will no doubt see the implications :-)

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I was surprised to learn that New Scientist has retracted from the net an opinion piece published both on the net and in their paper magazine. The article now reads:

STORY TEMPORARILY NOT AVAILABLE

New Scientist has received a legal complaint about the contents of this story. At the advice of our lawyer it has temporarily been removed while we ( Read more... )