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Comment: Paranoid (Score 2) 256

by doru on Friday December 23, @01:56PM (#38474138) Attached to: Vanity Fair On the TSA and Security Theater

I was feeling really paranoid [...] Ozzy Osbourne

Oh really ?!

Comment: Re:It's not a first step (Score 1) 101

by doru on Tuesday October 04, @12:11PM (#37601086) Attached to: For Academic Publishing, Princeton Goes Open Access By Default

It would be no great loss to any journal in particular to not accept work from Princeton.

It would be very dangerous for any journal to have to acknowledge publicly that they refuse publication based on the institution of the authors, because they must (at least appear to) be fair and objective. They will most likely add another item on the copyright form, to the effect that: "If you belong to institutions A, B or C you do not have to turn over copyright to us".

Comment: The original paper (Score 1) 77

by doru on Friday June 04 2010, @06:12AM (#32456452) Attached to: Part-Human, Part-Machine Transistor Devised

The paper appeared in the journal Nano Letters, not to be confused with ACS Nano (although both journals belong to the American Chemical Society). Link: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl100499x

Comment: Since 1960 (Score 1) 712

by doru on Wednesday September 02 2009, @12:09PM (#29287719) Attached to: Has the Rate of Technical Progress Slowed?

The first laser was created in 1960. The structure of DNA was discovered in 1953 (I suppose it took a while for the molecular biology revolution to unfold). Integrated circuit - 1958.

I'd say quite a lot happened since 1960...

SPAM: Stephen Wolfram builds a radical new search engine 0

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destinyland

on Monday April 06 2009, @12:57PM

destinyland writes "Mathematician Stephen Wolfram is releasing a radical new browser/search engine. "Wolfram|Alpha figures out what your question means, looks up the necessary data to answer your question, computes an answer, designs a page to present the answer in a pleasing way, and sends the page back to your computer," Wolfram explains in his first interview about the new search engine (with cyberpunk author author Rudy Rucker). "Of all the things science can compute, most take a second or less," Wolfram argues, building on his theory that very simple rules describe complex phenomenon. "If anything, you might call it a platonic search engine..." Wolfram says. "We compute the answers, and we discover new truths." A closed beta of the interface is online, along with a mailing list, and an audio excerpt from Rucker's two-hour interview."
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