Daily Archives: December 16, 2007

The streak

Posted on December 16, 2007 by Charles Kuffner

I can’t exactly say that I hope the New England Patriots will run the table and go on to win the Super Bowl. I mean, I’ll root for them against the greater evil of the Cowboys in the unfortunate event … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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The urge to conserve

Posted on December 16, 2007 by Charles Kuffner

The urge to conserve goes mainstream. Headlines like that are weird to me, because it’s always seemed mainstream to me. A growing acceptance of human-induced climate change and the link between energy and national security has pushed conservation into the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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The Stupid Filter

Posted on December 16, 2007 by Charles Kuffner

From the Ideas Whose Time Have Come department: A team of American scientists are developing the “StupidFilter” – an open-source filter software that will be able to detect “rampant stupidity” of web-content in written English. Similarly to the way spam … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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