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Monthly Archives: May 2006
Artificial AI: Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
This website is quite bizarre on first glance. It doesn’t do much better on second or third glance either, but it’s intended as a demonstration of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk online service, which offers an interesting model for humans to accomplish … Continue reading
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Uncommon Knowledge
I’ve taken to listening to MP3s in the car for the several hours each week I’m driving by myself rather than trying to find something worthwhile to listen to on the radio. Although I do occasionally listen to music files, … Continue reading
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Freedom isn’t free
As cliched as that phrase may be, it never becomes any less true. Here are several more Memorial Day links. Talk about a tough job. The military bloggers at Blackfive commemorate Memorial Day by remembering a few of their own. … Continue reading
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Revolts in Iran
This seems like relatively good news, although unsurprisingly it sounds like it’s been pretty bloody so far.
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Are they even trying to get it right???
No surprise here, but it seems the media is having trouble telling the truth lately.
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Memorial Day roundup
Some miscellaneous thoughts for this Memorial Day: A great article on Memorial Day and the Iraq War here [via Instapundit] Reminds us why we fight. Be sure to read the whole thing. The song ‘Mansions of the Lord’ is particularly … Continue reading
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Is there a market for context?
An intriguing article by Austin Bay makes the case for what the author calls an “Astonishing News Network,” sort of a history and context driven counterbalance to CNN. While I agree with the general need for a network like this … Continue reading
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Pat Robertson: World’s strongest man?
Just when you thought his statements couldn’t get any more outrageous, Pat Robertson does it again. I would say that it must be really embarrassing, but apparently he doesn’t embarrass very easily.
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Memorial Day Weekend
I spent the afternoon and evening yesterday driving home to Indiana for the weekend. This will be the last time for the whole family to get together for quite a while (Jon is being deployed overseas in a couple of … Continue reading
Posted in family, holidays, jon updates
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