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Monday, March 29, 2004
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How E-Voting Threatens Democracy: "Nobody wants another Florida election debacle. Electronic voting is supposed to be the answer, but a growing body of evidence suggests the technology, at least in its current form, cannot be trusted." [Wired News]
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Buckyballs Kill Fish: "The Washington Post [...] has a disturbing article on a new study of the environmental dangers of nanotech. Buckyballs caused "severe" brain damage in largemouth bass when added to their aquariums in concentrations of 0.5 ppm, a concentration level on par with common US pollutants. They also caused die-offs of Daphnia, waterfleas that are a crucial part of the ocean food chain." [Slashdot]
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Teaching parallel programming with MPI -- Comment()
I'm today lecturing on a two-day course on parallel programming with MPI. There are 15 participants, with scientific fields ranging from biosciences to physics. This is a nice opporturnity to practice my skills in English. A lecture is always a bit different than talking to a person. I hope to make make my lectures engaging and interesting, and doing this is much harder in English than it is in Finnish.
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