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Tupper's Self-Referential Formula

OMFG!

Cool or what?

I feel nerdy.....

Samsung K3

Samsung K3

Hoojum Nanode

hoojum nanode
I sense a frivolous purchase on the horizon...

CAPTCHA

So, that system with pictures where you have to identify the letters to prove you're not a computer has an acronym...

Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart[Wikipedia]

I bet there's loads of filthy illegal v|ag.ra money in developing good antiCAPTCHA programs...

Oui...

Nintendo Wii!

Alan Turing... Apple Logo

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Apple Computer Logo

A funny little urban myth I hadn't previously heard is described in today's Irish Times in a particularly eclectic Ticket supplement. Supposedly, the Apple Computers logo is a tribute to Alan Turing, referencing his death after eating part of an apple laced with cyanide.

Hunch Engine

What a cool idea. Harnessing human intuition to drive a genetic algorithm to search on a hunch. I like it...

'Hunch engine' sharpens up your half-baked ideas [New Scientist]

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