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Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior (WSJ.com)

Like many of us have been saying, it boils down to this: expect excellence and know that regardless of any nascent talent, …

Is 3-D a Fad or a Stepping Stone?

It’s all the rage. All the cool studios are doing it. What’s not to like about 3-D movies and TV? Well, a lot, but I just don’t want to be a naysayer. It’s possible that 3-D will stick around this time for it to develop into something still only seen in SF movies.

Ultimate Cheat Sheet Colllection

A nifty set of cheat sheets for developers. 40 Must Have Cheat Sheets for effective Web Designers – tripwiremagazine.com.

The XY Problem in Sports

The spector of gender development disorder complicates things mightily when it comes to athletic competition. For one South African runner, this has created a bit of a problem.

Believe – Part 3, Having Vision

Any intelligence is effectively useless without an ability to perceive that which is external to the intelligence. The key to vision isn’t the how of image gathering, but the processing and interpretation of the images gathered.

Believe – Part 2, The Necessity of Chaos

Construction of our AAI will require many elements to work together for sentience to be achieved. The glue we will use comes from chaos theory.

The Connor Wars Writer’s Room 1 – Intro & Bible

The Terminator-The Sarah Connor Chronicles season 2 finale has left me fired up. I’m giddy. As long as I have my giddy up and no new episodes are airing, I thought it’d be fun to set up a writer’s room of our own. For every journey, there is a first step.

Believe – The General Purpose AAI Robot Project – Part 1, Overview

Who doesn’t want to build a really smart robot? The trouble is, many people don’t think outside the box enough. Me? I don’t think it needs to be a box. I say we start designing for the possibilities soon to come instead of holding ourselves back.

Building Terminator – My Plan For Season 2 (Part 2 of 2)

Continuing from Part 1, we look at how we might develop the important threads that will keep the season 2 storytelling of TTSCC tight.

Building Terminator – My Plan For Season 2 (Part 1)

Based on the number of comments being made in the various fora during the two-month break between the mid-season finale and the start of the back-9 episodes of Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles, I thought it would be a fun little exercise to see how I’d have developed the 2nd season.

Noting with Wiki

I finished the first draft of the latest SF novel at the end of this summer, and was faced with the always …

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