After years of wanting to get up there, we finally took a few days and traveled in Washington and Oregon. I’ve created a new Tabblo with some of our pics.

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The Common Dreams Newscenter has a short piece on the reaction of the Amish community to the shooting of 10 of their children, killing five. I haven’t written anything about the events, but the reaction of both the older girls before they were shot and their families after the attacks has moved me.
Marian Fisher, […]

Reuters today released an interesting story about Google’s plans to build a probability machine that could detect whether politicians were lying. It’s a great idea, but there are several limitations to a system like this:
1. Google can only index existing records. It would be relatively simple, conceptually, to fact-check a President’s speech or documents like […]

In an insight that is probably mind-numbingly obvious to any economist, I just realized how much more efficient a company is, in terms of revenue over headcount, than a nation, even like the United States, is. Take Google, for example. Their 2004 annual revenue was $3.19 billion. They have 5680 employees, according to Yahoo […]

The Economist published a story about “negative databases” in their Science section. This article is worth a read for a few reasons. First, it highlights once again, the depth of the relationship between computer science and philosophy. The databases online that contain our most valuable information are nothing more than implementations of set theory, […]