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  Thursday 28 February 2002
Future Topics (No Singularity; P&S; End of Science)

Future Topics (if I don't get a life soon ...)

I've been playing with Radio's outliner. Pretty cool. Got some half-baked ideas about

  • Vernor Vinge's "singularity" (summary: won't happen, because intelligence is not one-dimensional. It's not even n-dimensional for any n you'd care to name. IMHO.);
  • Russ Lipton's essay about Publish & Subscribe (e.g., "content-free ad hominem flames and hobby-horse USENET-kook obsessions simply don't get linked to"); and
  • "The End of Science", John Horgan's book examining several disciplines and asking prominent scientists from each, "Have all the big questions been answered?" I feel obligated at least to write a review of it once I finish reading it.

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MTB Weblogs

MTB weblogs

A couple of years ago, I created an "ed itt hisp age" site for mountain biking , though I didn't get many chances to keep it current. Now I start seeing a few other spots where weblogs mention mountain biking -- Will Leshner (thanks for the kind words), and an MTB trail being built in Wales . It's a start...

Note the odd spacing in "ed itt hisp age" above. I tried two other ways to spell that, with my own HTML brackets <a href=...> and </a> around the linking text. But Radio has its own idea of what you mean to link to if you happen to use the word e*itthispage either as one word (it links to www.editthispage.com) or if you space it out at the word boundaries (it links to a DaveNet piece). Weird weird weird.

later: Weirder yet, a small test of this weirdness doesn't manage to exhibit the behavior at all. Was it cosmic rays?

MUCH later: It was Radio's "shortcuts", i.e., text macro/abbreviations. All you have to do to get normal quotes is to escape them with backslashes. Of course, you first have to notice that you've accidentally run into one.
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