Domain Query: Rise of the Machines
In this latest Domain Query, I address a rather interesting question from LRFotS Randale6 that touches on the thorny and tricky issue of thinking machines and artificial intelligence,...
Monday morning with David Ben-Gurion
The weekend is always just way too damn short. It is ESPECIALLY too damn short if you cook a really nice steak dinner (with sweet potato fries) and then end up drinking a bit too much red wine, go...
Sunday Scripture: Love Your Neighbour As Yourself
9 “When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. 10 And you shall not strip your vineyard...
Friday T&A: Trollfest Edition
If the events of the past few days have proven anything, it is that toadying up to Clown Prince Zarnulf of Hy-Bandera is hazardous to a politician's career prospects. The Curse of the Dummy...
Tour de force
Dr. James Tour's name should be fairly familiar to regular readers of this site. I have mentioned him a number of times before, particularly with respect to his seminal presentation about the known...
The SANKSHUNS are highly effective
I have been trying to tell just about anyone with sense enough to listen, since pretty much the middle of April, that the SANKSHUNS against those damned ROOOOOOOOSKEEES!!!, are actually useless at...
Monday morning finding out
Here we go again - Monday, the day of the week when we roll out of bed groaning because we didn't get anywhere near enough sleep, and were rudely jolted out of an extremely pleasant dream involving...
A bridge WAY too far
The picture you see above was taken early yesterday by Russians on the eastern bank of the Kerch Strait, a narrow (but still significant) body of water that separates the Crimean Peninsula from the...
Sunday Scripture: Jesus Raises Lazarus
38 Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it. 39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this...
Didactic Mind, Ep 104: World War Now
The main Didactic Mind podcast is finally back with a new episode. In this one, I argue that we are already in a World War - whether you call it World War III or IV at this point, I don't know or...
Friday T&A: С Днём Рождения Edition
The Russian phrase in the title is their way of saying, "happy birthday" - it literally translates as, "with the day of birth" - and today is, in fact, someone's birthday. No, it is not mine - but...

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