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| Notice: GeekPress is back up and running, thanks to Paul! It's still a not-so-serious tech news blog, but the format is significantly looser. Diana, having given up programming for philosophy, has her own philosophical blog NoodleFood. More of her work can be found at DianaHsieh.com. |
| Sea worm may provide key to photonics |
| 2:00:59 am mst / 4 January 2001 found by paul / filed in science / source BBC News 84 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Scientists studying the spines of an undersea worm believe that they may be able to adapt the natural technology for photonic engineering. |
| So who gets to patent a natural creation? |
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| New Amazon.com Logo Sure to Increase Sales |
| 9:41:07 am mst / 4 January 2001 found by diana / filed in humor / source BBspot 316 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Amazon.com unveiled a new, very compelling logo today, which induced 98% of all customers to make an average purchase of $1678. |
| Speaking of which, I am feeling an irresistible urge to buy something -- anything -- from amazon right now. |
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| Bill Gates, Fashion God |
| 10:34:02 am mst / 4 January 2001 found by paul / filed in business / source ZDNet 115 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| The latest fashion craze among young South Korean businessmen is the Bill Gates look. Many are moving away from button-down suits to rumpled casual clothes in hopes that they too will become rich. One would-be internet millionaire says that he "likes to let several days pass without shampooing, to match what he calls Gates's 'natural oily look.'" |
| I guess I was fashionable long before it became cool! |
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| The bot who fragged me |
| 12:13:13 pm mst / 4 January 2001 found by paul / filed in games / source Upside 93 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| University of Michigan Professor John Laird believes that one of the best ways to develop human-level artificial intelligence is through computer gaming. One of his projects is an intelligent Quakebot that acts as an opponent to the human player in the Quake game. The bot will try to defeat the human player by anticipating his or her moves and reacting accordingly. |
| It will be especially interesting to see whether a human player can consistently deceive the bot, or whether the bot learns from its past mistakes. |
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| Xbox pics leak out |
| 7:23:32 pm mst / 4 January 2001 found by diana / filed in games / source The Register 291 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| The Register has managed to get their hands on some advance pictures of the XBox, which was supposed to be unveiled this Saturday in Vegas. |
| I love it: "Microsoft is apparently 'incandescent' with rage." |
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