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Friday, April 1, 2005
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Don't tell anybody, but science fiction no longer exists: "Try this: written science fiction has become two things - a genre and a style; the audience for the former is small and shrinking, while the audience for the latter is large, growing, and doesn't know of its own existence." [via Teal Sunglasses]
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Taming the Wild Cluster: "Unless a group is running a proprietary code or doing research on clusters per se, they're best advised to share a cluster and get it more professionally managed, I think. For one thing, they can use a larger machine by going in with other users. No-one can argue about the price/performance advantage with clusters, but what you get out of them is what you pay for them."
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Brain chip reads man's thoughts: "A paralysed US man becomes the first person to benefit from a brain chip that reads his mind." [BBC News | World | UK Edition]
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