Tag: technology

Have you seen AQA (All Questions Answered), a new online/SMS service? The idea is that you text message a question to 63336 (only on O2, Vodafone, and Orange, right now: costs £1) and their server uses a clever combination of intelligent algorithms, data mining, and human researchers to provide you with an answer.

They're working on …

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If you've been on the internet for any length of time at all, you'll probably have come across the concept of a …

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Two fantastic bits of funny news for you this April Fool's morning:

1. A seven-ton atomic landmine, designed to prevent Soviet advance through …

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First, some info for the non-geeks out there, so you can truly appreciate the irony in what's to come:

Lindows …

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This auction on eBay Germany (you can use Babel Fish to translate it if you like) seems to be trying to sell a Wireless Network Cable.

(and, for the benefit of Adam, who won't 'get' it: a wireless network, being wireless, doesn't have cables - this is geek humour that even you can understand)

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An article on the Register amused me this morning. Go read it.

In other (slightly more geeky) news, there's a plan to put a wireless internet point in every lamp post. It's a very clever idea. If the market's feeling healthy enough, it'll grant the conceivers some venture capitalists, and it'll go-ahead. Here's hoping.

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If you haven't already read it, take a look at The Right To Read, a very short story written in 1997 and updated in 2002 - it'll only take you a few minutes to read; …

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Oh yeh; and, in case you hadn't noticed - AbNib is down. And it's not my fault! The server fucked up something rotten, but seems to be okay now. And whoever posted a comment to one of my entries the other day and had it not-appear; sorry: same issue.

I'll try to get AbNib up again …

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I've just written an artificial intelligence gamebot, designed to pseudointelligently play simple board games which involve a finite upper number of moves and a board of tokens - for example: Connect Four, Noughts & Crosses, Go!, or Othello. It uses the (appropriately-written) rules of the game in order to pre-anticipate a vast number of moves, …

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I've been thinking about a popular mathematical document easily available on the web, More Monkey Business, which uses the maths behind the otherwise inconceivable "infinite monkey problem" (if a million monkeys at a million keyboardsetc.... also known as Usenet...) as a gateway to argue against molecular biology's evolutionary theory, which states that life 'came together' …

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It turns out that Windows Longhorn is a lot like the child of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, but (at this early stage) less stable. Just what we've come to expect.

On the other hand, it's a lot faster than I might have expected (considering its dependency on the .NET framework). If you play with …

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