Traffic AnalysisJune 4, 2010
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/06/04/0024211/Traffic-Flow-Algorithm-Can-Reduce-Fuel-ConsumptionI love this kind of thing...
Oh happy dayMarch 3, 2010
Don't you love it when you figure out how to escape from the vices of technology? I was sitting here depressed that, while my BlackBerry is a great thing, I find it so dreadfully annoying to have to go through all of my email messages and all of my Facebook notifications and mark them all as read. It wastes about 200 clicks and scrolls every few days, and it's a giant pain.
And I just figured out how to do that by clicking on the date and using "Mark Prior Opened".
hehe :)
Good Job RayFebruary 10, 2010
Ray Kurzweil has some pretty elaborate and seemingly unlikely theories about the future, but reading the following was a wonderful thing:
"I get very excited about discussions about the true nature of consciousness, because I‘ve been thinking about this issue for literally 50 years, going back to junior high school. And it‘s a very difficult subject. When some article purports to present the neurological basis of consciousness... I read it. And the articles usually start out, “Well, we think that consciousness is caused by...” You know, fill in the blank. And then it goes on with a big extensive examination of that phenomenon. And at the end of the article, I inevitably find myself thinking... where is the link to consciousness? Where is any justification for believing that this phenomenon should cause consciousness? Why would it cause consciousness?"It's very rare that I read someone's thoughts about consciousness and think "Wow, this person really gets it, they're thinking about it in a very similar way to how I think about it".
But I have to say, this was very encouraging.
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