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The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern “knowledge” is that it is wrong….
My answer to him was, “John, when people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.”
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New York Times - What Is I.B.M.’s Watson? -
Great article by Clive Thompson about I.B.M.’s Watson - a sort of Deep Blue for Jeopardy
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Great summary by the EFF of a number of court cases through the years where free speech lost thanks to the DMCA.
Stolen from APOD.
As bad as it is, I’m sad to see the shuttle go.