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April 26, 2005

How about a nice game of chess?

A full page of "games making interesting use of artificial intelligence", discovered when I followed a link to Dan O'brien's Cloak, Dagger, and DNA.

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Prime Time

Via Joel on Software, some articles I have to look into....
"A probable prime is an integer that satisfies a condition also satisfied by all prime numbers."

And I'm only three years late in learning that Agrawal had a break through leading to a polynomial time prime test.

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April 25, 2005

Unintended consequences

Security author Bruce Schneier notes that drivers under automatic surveillance have not modified their behaviors toward safer driving.

It seems to me, if you want to use cameras to penalize unsafe driving, you ought to be tuning them to enforce tailgating laws - get the drivers properly spaced in time.

I suppose in theory drivers might respond by neatly spacing themselves 500 feet apart driving 120 MPH. But that doesn't seem likely - I wonder what they would do instead?

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April 19, 2005

Vatican Rag

Pick a pope, any pope. That's right, now take a good look at it, and memorize your pope - but don't tell me who it is! Now slide your pope into the deck, and shuffle it thoroughly....


Is this your pope?

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April 11, 2005

Philadelphia Chickens


The EZ Catch Chicken Harvester video ( BrightCoop was apparently slashdotted, but BlogTelevision has a copy ) really needs to be paired with the The Bacon Brothers.

Who has got the skills?

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April 3, 2005

How to buy a baseball team

Thomas Mulligan, of the LA Times
describes how Frank McCourt purchased the Dodgers.

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