Archive for November, 2011

AI Challenge 2011 Update

Tuesday, November 22, 2011 18:33 No Comments

Due to real-life issues, I’ve had less time to devote to the contest that I’d expected so my progress has been slow. I should have more time from here on out so hopefully I’ll be able to do better. Most people haven’t been as lazy as me however and more people have entered than I [...]

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Towers of Midnight

Wednesday, November 9, 2011 19:35 No Comments

Way back at the beginning of this year, I wrote a post on the first chapter of the Wheel of Time series that was handed off to Brandon Sanderson. Now as 2011 draws to a close, it’s time to do the same for the penultimate chapter of a saga that first started over twenty years [...]

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Recent Interesting Science Articles (Oct ’11)

Friday, November 4, 2011 13:59 No Comments

Only a couple of articles for this month and one of them is a general feature about a subject rather than a recent discovery. But anyway:  The feature in question is an article on how intelligent octopuses are from Orion Magazine. There are interesting anecdotes in there about how they can recognize and form relationships [...]

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