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Powers of Two
Okay, I know I just had a post called “Two Ideas”. I guess I’m feeling binary lately. Here goes….
The two books I bought today
Algorithms — this is for Computer Science 312. I think it will go a long way towards being able to understand what the people in the NLP lab are always talking about.
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Two Ideas
These ideas have rather caught my attention:
About the Semantic Web, see this TED talk by Tim Berners-Lee: The next Web of open, linked data
A blog post about Internet-fueled government transparency: What the post-bureaucratic era will mean for the public service
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Why…
…are eBooks embracing DRM while online music stores are abandoning it? What’s the difference aside from a couple of megabytes?
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Dubious Honor, But See The Show!
Well, I’m not quite sure what it says about my not-quite-nascent acting career (they said I was good at “vacant”), but I’ve been cast to play the title role (at least, a role from part of the title) in Waiting for Godot Baggins at tomorrow night’s Bad Play Project.
There will be minimal, if any, rehearsal [...]
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Pandemonium