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Monday, June 10, 2002 |
BTW, here's a good question. Why is South Carolina one of the most important states in the union? It's the only state that can throw Ernest Hollings out of office when he comes up for re-election. I believe in the corporate death penalty, and I also believe in the political death penalty, for representatives who try to steal what's not theirs for greedy idiots in Hollywood. [Scripting News]
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Review of A New Kind of Science
The first few chapters of his book explore this possibility in detail, using dozens of examples of cellular automata. The explanations are fascinating and wonderfully lucid. Mr Wolfram shows with countless examples how apparently simple systems can give rise to extraordinarily complex behaviour.
Having settled that beyond question, he then makes a vast speculative leap. Because complex behaviour is abundant in nature and because it can be produced by simple systems akin to cellular automata, that, he asserts, is how all complex behaviour must be produced. Et voilà, he has found the secret of the universe: simple computation rules can yield structures that resemble trees, shells and snowflakes; that, Mr Wolfram tells us, is therefore how nature generates everything.
Mere equations, he observes, cannot capture such complexity, whereas simple computational rules can. To the obvious objection that systems that are superficially similar might have radically different structural features, he answers thatcellular automata can still be useful models, even if the underlying mechanisms of natural phenomena are totally different.
12:51:59 PM
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A Rift Among Bloggers. Five years ago, programmers pioneered Weblogs, or blogs. These days, many consider Weblogs to be inherently political, something that has angered Weblog veterans. By David F. Gallagher. [New York Times: Technology]
What I fail to comprehend is the need journalists have of labeling everything. I try to think of what I am and I never fit... Am I a tech blogger? Kind of... Am I a warblogger? Kind of... Am I a coupblogger? some people may think so... I do not need to be labeled, read me or don't read me, but don't put me in boxes...
11:15:33 AM
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Apple Ad Campaign Stars Former Microsoft Users. Apple Computer plans to begin an advertising campaign focusing on people who have switched to Apple's Macintosh from computers that use Microsoft's Windows operating system. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology]
Great idea! With so many people changing to Mac OS X these ads, and the website, are very intelligent advertisement!
[From the site] "Using my PC was like being stuck in a bad relationship"
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Caracas Mac User Group rep spotlighted in online report
The lastest edition of the User Group report (UGR) features an interview with Amaya Gergoff of the Caracas Macintosh Users Group.
Gergoff has become a driving force for Latin American Macintosh User Group issues and visibility, according to Chuck Joiner, editor-in-chief of The MUG Center (http://www.mugcenter.com), an online resource for Mac user groups. In the UGR, she talks about her group and their recent anniversary event, her Web site, ,a href="http://www.latinmug.org/">LatinMUG.org, what she tries to accomplish as an Apple Regional Liaison and the challenges of being a Mac user in Latin America. [MacCentral]
Way to go, Amaya! We are very proud of you! 
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