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Monday, August 29, 2005
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Visionary: We will live longer: Leroy Hood
Another scientist getting with the increased lifespan theories. Somebody get this man a subscription to Rejuvenation Medicine!
AvantGuardian from extropy-chat explains the significance:
"Wow... in scientific circles that is a pretty huge
endorsement of transhumanism. Hood is a big dog
amongst molecular biologists, immunologists, and
bioinformaticians."
Another scientist getting with the increased lifespan theories. Somebody get this man a subscription to Rejuvenation Medicine!
AvantGuardian from extropy-chat explains the significance:
"Wow... in scientific circles that is a pretty huge
endorsement of transhumanism. Hood is a big dog
amongst molecular biologists, immunologists, and
bioinformaticians."
Google Talk
More Google.
They've launched an IM service, based on the open protocol Jabber, which uses your gmail contacts and will enable voice chat(if you're equipped for such).
They have a nice little client, but for the time being I'm still using my multiclient GAIM, which can connect to the service just fine.
It would be really cool if they managed to unify IM the way they've unified my other internetting, like search, blogging, email, etc.
I don't know how much money there is in IM for AIM and MSN, but I doubt they'll take it lying down anyhow. It will be interesting to see, but I'm sure the competition will lead to interesting stuff for this consumer.
More Google.
They've launched an IM service, based on the open protocol Jabber, which uses your gmail contacts and will enable voice chat(if you're equipped for such).
They have a nice little client, but for the time being I'm still using my multiclient GAIM, which can connect to the service just fine.
It would be really cool if they managed to unify IM the way they've unified my other internetting, like search, blogging, email, etc.
I don't know how much money there is in IM for AIM and MSN, but I doubt they'll take it lying down anyhow. It will be interesting to see, but I'm sure the competition will lead to interesting stuff for this consumer.
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Arimaa - The game of real intelligence
Vaguely interesting. Arimaa is a game, playable with a standard chess set, which is explicitly designed to be difficult for computers. There is a moderate prize ($10k), and some interesting theory behind it, but other than that, it seems easier to just use Go as a 'harder and larger search space' for computers.
Vaguely interesting. Arimaa is a game, playable with a standard chess set, which is explicitly designed to be difficult for computers. There is a moderate prize ($10k), and some interesting theory behind it, but other than that, it seems easier to just use Go as a 'harder and larger search space' for computers.
Google's Desktop Search adds Sidebar
Most people know about this, yet another Google related way of adding functionality to your desktop. An update to Desktop Search adds Desktop Widgets, rather like Konfabulor or Mac OSX.
It's interesting, but it's at most a marginal update to the way I do most things. I move some functionality from Mozilla to the Sidebar(which is convenient, since Firefox is often on the edge of crashing with all I load it in) and get slightly better indexing. Good things, but not amazing.
For someone who hasn't yet gotten desktop search, I'd recommend it highly. Very clever, and less resource intensive than other solutions which is good for older computers.
Review by Ars Technica at the above link.
Most people know about this, yet another Google related way of adding functionality to your desktop. An update to Desktop Search adds Desktop Widgets, rather like Konfabulor or Mac OSX.
It's interesting, but it's at most a marginal update to the way I do most things. I move some functionality from Mozilla to the Sidebar(which is convenient, since Firefox is often on the edge of crashing with all I load it in) and get slightly better indexing. Good things, but not amazing.
For someone who hasn't yet gotten desktop search, I'd recommend it highly. Very clever, and less resource intensive than other solutions which is good for older computers.
Review by Ars Technica at the above link.
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