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Evolutionary Computation Solves Algebra Problem (thanks to Jill who posted this on her FB)

July 31, 2008

Could Evolutionary Computation Cut Billions of Years in Solving Problems? Happy (belated) birthday, Darwin! A computer science and mathematics team from Hampshire College in Massachusetts and the State University of New York in New Paltz has used evolutionary processes to solve a century-old algebra problem far faster and more efficiently than any past efforts of […]

Tweets for Today

July 31, 2008

10:48 @bethr Sasson does that too; when Shoshana leaves for work he sometimes comes back to bed and snuggles with me. # 19:31 @bethr Yeah, not to mention the ones who can’t be bothered to reply at all. It’s her loss. # 19:36 @smartgrrrl Heaven AKA Paradise in Hebrew Gan Eden or the Garden of […]

Tweets for Today

July 30, 2008

09:28 @bethr: I’d would be happy to lose my calluses, but wonder whether there is a the risk of infection to an edematous part of my body. # 09:37 @smartgrrl Try this: shut the laptop down and vacuum under the keys (or just under the V key). # 10:16 @smartgrrl Yogurt & blueberries, yummy! Soy […]

Tweets for Today

July 30, 2008

What will they think of next? Bacon alarm clock

July 30, 2008

Wake n’ Bacon As a kosher vegetarian this would not be my wake up clock of choice, but one or more of the proposed add-on modules might be: * Heat/Cooling unit * Bed Vibrator * Bright Lamp * Baking unit * Bass Generator * Air Cannon

Tweets for Today

July 30, 2008

15:44 @bethr I tried the yoono firefox add-on and found it a not very useful memory hog that messed up my bookmarks. # 09:28 @bethr: I’d would be happy to lose my calluses, but wonder whether there is a the risk of infection to an edematous part of my body. # 09:37 @smartgrrl Try this: […]

(x-posted in ) Breaking News: Olmert Won’t Run for Reelection

July 30, 2008

Olmert will not run in Kadima primaries Likud licks its chops, itching for an election I thought he would go down fighting and pull his party down with him. In view of the allegations he faces he should have stepped aside quite some time ago which would have given Kadima an interregnum under a successor, […]