Monthly Archive: August 2006

A very rough estimate might be that the evaluation function [for computer Go] is, at best, 100 times slower than chess, and the branching factor is four times greater at each play; taken together,...

A rather slipshod article in the New York Times about alchemy manages to perpetuate a typical error: it calls Robert Boyle a “British chemist”. This is an error. He was born in 1627 in...

Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon’s initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to...

Mel’s Ecumenical Thoughts.

A cell partner turned me on to Scientology. With him and another guy I got pretty heavy into Dianetics and Scientology. Through this and by other studies, I came out of my state of...