What is thought II
Part 2 of this conversation. I get argued into a corner, and ultimately lose to SRG, even though his approach and view is wrong. But I have since discovered more of Melnick’s view, and I believe I now am able to respond to his criticism. So stay tuned, faithful readers.
Mishkinman said
Since you’ve [...]

round get around I get around.
I tracked down a producer from RantRadio (by the grace of Server), and was given permission to broadcast Tales from the Afternow on the new Radio Free Urbana station, 104.5 WRFU.
Here was my proposal (which is supposed to be approx 50 words):
My proposal is not to produce new programming, but [...]

You know, in case my future biographers are keeping tabs.
From The Economist
Changing gear
Aug 25th 2005
From The Economist print edition
The self-driving car comes closer—but difficulties remain
IT IS an old chestnut—a car that drives itself—but General Motors, the world’s largest car manufacturer, has become the latest company to claim to be building one. The car uses updated [...]

The Daily Show is something of a defining feature of the college-age generation today, and as such it recieves a lot of undue credit and unwarranted criticism. Last night’s episode, however, is a good example of why it deserves its place in contemporary political discourse. The interview of Hitchens was perhaps the best public debate [...]

Posted by Cloud 9 in this shitty thread.
I basically used this as an opportunity to try and defend the view Melnick presented in class in a public arena. I took some liberties of extending it in places, and obviously some places I had to fudge.
Thought is the pooling of action-guiding resources to attend to specific [...]

From Google Blog
In reference to the NIST 2005 Machine Translation Evaluation Official Results
The NIST 2005 Machine Translation Evaluation (MT-05) was part of an ongoing series of evaluations of human language translation technology. NIST conducts these evaluations in order to support machine translation (MT) research and help advance the state-of-the-art in machine translation technology. These evaluations [...]

Get over it.
Forbes Magazine
2005 E-Gang
The Machinist
Quentin Hardy, 09.05.05
Type a phrase into Google and, in an instant, it pores over an astounding 8 billion Web pages. Peter Norvig is haunted by the prospect of what it misses. As Google’s director of search quality and research (a doozy of a job description), Norvig spurs on 140 scientists [...]

Alright, back to work. Nothing to see here, people, move along.

Stanford, Volkswagen team up to enter driverless-vehicle race
With Stanford University, and organizational and monetary help from Silicon Valley’s venture-capital firm Mohr, Davidow Ventures, the VW lab is pursuing an entry in the DARPA Grand Challenge.
The federal Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency sponsors the event with [...]

In references to the comments from the previous post:
ToliverChap: don’t forget to fall forward 2 hours on your watch d00d.
Dr Crawl: tonight?
ToliverChap: I just mean if you had it on CA time
ToliverChap: you probably already did it just being a pest.
Dr Crawl: oh, yea
ToliverChap: :)
ToliverChap: oh wait I mean dick
ToliverChap: [I'm not a dick you're [...]

(22:26:29) HappyEpsilon: it’s not really funny
(22:26:36) drcrawl: whats that
(22:26:43) HappyEpsilon: my blog
(22:26:44) drcrawl: o ur blog
(22:26:46) drcrawl: ya
(22:27:41) HappyEpsilon: i think i want to stop hanging out with you now
(22:27:47) drcrawl: no problem
(22:27:50) drcrawl: um
(22:27:58) drcrawl: can I still get a ride back from bloomington?
(22:28:10) HappyEpsilon: i will make sure someone is there
(22:28:20) drcrawl: heh
(22:28:23) [...]