Monthly Archives: February 2003

The mysterious process 772

Learned a lot of computer stuff in the last 2 days. just installed a category sorter in Greymatter the day before yesterday. Still getting the mistakes out as of today. Learned that folks at the Greymatter support forum are planning … Continue reading

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Swarm intelligence, artificial trees, guilt-free stem cells

They’ve figured out to create pluripotent, stem cells from cheap, ordinary, blood cells. This is a breakthrough because these types of cells previously have only been found in fetal tissue, which is controversial, or bone marrow, which is difficult to … Continue reading

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How scientists relate to buildings

So I came across this article in Wired that seemed unhappy with the security at Los Alamos National Laboratory–perhaps a legitimate concern–but it also seemed unhappy with how grubby the LANL buildings were, which isn’t such a big deal. Let … Continue reading

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One can only hope this will end up in Memepool one day

I worked at the Lazy M Ranch in one capacity or another for four years and I saw first hand how the best brains of my time were warped beyond all recognition while there. As an example of this, allow … Continue reading

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Been waiting for this for a long time

Progress continues to be made on robot cars–cars that drive themselves. Like I’ve said many times, human are just not reliable enough to be put in charge of a tonne or so of steel and plastic.

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What I am not

I ain’t a libertarian

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So what happens to piloted spaceflight?

On Saturday, I was very glad that I don’t have a television. There’s nothing worse than hearing the same thing over and over. I didn’t learn about the disintegration of the Columbia Shuttle until at least 6 or so hours … Continue reading

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