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Entries from March 2007

Publish your lectures as well as your papers

March 21st, 2007 ·

If you’re a researcher in computer science, then how would you like to be able to watch a video of Turing or von Neumann or - for that matter - how about that lecture you really wanted to hear last week on graph algorithms at Stanford?
Scientists have long been trained to record their formal thoughts [...]

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Tags: Research

Religion is evil

March 18th, 2007 ·

Some people are shocked when they hear me say this. That’s because they don’t like to have something they believe in called evil. When I say that religion is evil, I don’t mean that religion has no value whatsoever. I mean that the net world effect from religion is to promote evil. [...]

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Tags: Politics · Rants

The war on terror

March 18th, 2007 ·

There is no better example of crap than the current administration calling the war in Iraq the “war on terror”.
It’s a great tragedy that the president was able to mislead the American public into thinking that mounting a military offensive to oust Saddam Hussein from power would result in a world safe from terror. [...]

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Tags: Politics