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Sudoku, Part Three

With the sudoku program I hacked together in the last post, I was able to solve the Irish Independent's Super Sudoku for three weeks running. But then, disaster! It turns out that sudoku puzzles can be pretty fiendish – they … Continue reading




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Steve Pavlina’s Non-Objective Reality

Steve Pavlina points out that objective reality, well, ain't. Actually he's on even firmer ground than he thinks. Now I'm no Sapir-Whorf fanboy, but as it turns out, classical objective reality is also a logical impossibility. Good old Hilary Putnam … Continue reading




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Bloglines Strangeness

In order to test my hacked atom 1.0 feed, I created a bloglines account and subscribed to the feed. That was all fine, but then things got funky. Bloglines only lists the first two posts. Later posts just aren't there. … Continue reading




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