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August 11, 2006
"Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy."
I was wondering why the new Mac Pros didn't have Blu-Ray drives, what with Apple being a member of Sony's little Blu-Ray consortium. I think the answer is that computer Blu-Ray drives can't play Blu-Ray movies yet.
Superman's password is Kal-El.
It's gotten to the point that Wikipedia is its own Turing-complete programming language. via
This led us to hypothesize that Wikimedia’s template language had becoming Turing complete (the technical jargon for a full-powered programming language). We started digging and eventually were rewarded with recursive template substitution, which appears, at least at first glance, to be sufficient to implement the lambda calculus, and thereby perform as a Turing complete functional language. Hence, Wikimedia proves the Strong interpretation of Greenspun’s Tenth Rule: any sufficiently advanced system will contain a functional programming language.
The sad story of the creator of FM radio, Edwin Armstrong
This fall, Jeopardy! goes hi-def, and the wall of tv monitors is replaced by a ginormous array of projectors. via
The corpse flower blooms now.
Posted by Jon Rubin at August 11, 2006 11:38 PM
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