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3 March 2005
BBC News: Local food 'greener than organic'
Hmm. Of course, there are other reasons for eating organic (like, not consuming pesticides), but it's an interesting thought.
Hmm. Of course, there are other reasons for eating organic (like, not consuming pesticides), but it's an interesting thought.
fast sentence parsing?
3 March 2005 14:40NY Times: With Terror in Mind, a Formulaic Way to Parse Sentences
I'm puzzled mostly because I thought that this was a more difficult problem than that. I don't work in this area of AI, though, so maybe I'm just out of touch . . . but I do wonder how robust this system is (and how it's been validated).
I'm puzzled mostly because I thought that this was a more difficult problem than that. I don't work in this area of AI, though, so maybe I'm just out of touch . . . but I do wonder how robust this system is (and how it's been validated).
Slate: The Wristband Gap, Part 2
This is a flawed article (the bit about the Tragedy of the Commons is completely misplaced, IMAO) but it does bring up a couple of good points:
(1) Some "awareness bracelet" manufacturers are, well, mercenary gouging misleading jerks.
(2) "Awareness bracelets" (or ribbons--which reminds me of a past post by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
red_frog that I'm too lazy to find right now) only work when people generally know what a given bracelet is supposed to make one aware of. Clearly we need a standard, and the writers of the various hanky codes should lend a hand. ;)
This is a flawed article (the bit about the Tragedy of the Commons is completely misplaced, IMAO) but it does bring up a couple of good points:
(1) Some "awareness bracelet" manufacturers are, well, mercenary gouging misleading jerks.
(2) "Awareness bracelets" (or ribbons--which reminds me of a past post by
red_frog that I'm too lazy to find right now) only work when people generally know what a given bracelet is supposed to make one aware of. Clearly we need a standard, and the writers of the various hanky codes should lend a hand. ;)volume control
3 March 2005 15:22It took us a month, but we finally caved and got out The Pacifier.
Corwin's at that awkward point where he no longer just eats and sleeps; he now has a considerable period after he eats where he wants to hang out and be entertained . . . except that he hasn't yet acquired a sense of humor (or, really, of play), and he seems somewhat frustrated by this.
As a result, for the last few days (and last night/today in particular), he's been generally dissatisfied. Not really in a big way--he reserves that for when he hasn't yet been fed--but enough so that we can't really sleep while he does this for a couple of hours starting at 2:30 AM. What's worse is that neither attention or cuddling, per se, seems to be enough; he wants variety. On top of this, he's not sleeping as long at a stretch as he had been.
Up to this point, we'd been giving him a finger to suck on in lieu of a pacifier; this worked particularly well when we were "finger-feeding" him (i.e., giving him a finger to suck on while squirting milk into his mouth via a syringe). However, a few days ago we moved over to the bottle (in part because our syringes are experiencing increasing levels of Technical Difficulties), and he seems to slowly be figuring out that fingers don't actually have milk in them; he'll still suck on one for a while, but not for long.
So we're trying him out on a pacifier. For me, it's hard not to think of this as some kind of failure; a Real Dad (TM), no doubt, would do without sleep as necessary in order to keep his child entertained (and never mind this pesky Ph.D. that I'm supposedly pursuing), and not resort to sticking a rubber plug in his kid's mouth in a bid to get a couple of hours of sleep. *sigh*
Corwin's at that awkward point where he no longer just eats and sleeps; he now has a considerable period after he eats where he wants to hang out and be entertained . . . except that he hasn't yet acquired a sense of humor (or, really, of play), and he seems somewhat frustrated by this.
As a result, for the last few days (and last night/today in particular), he's been generally dissatisfied. Not really in a big way--he reserves that for when he hasn't yet been fed--but enough so that we can't really sleep while he does this for a couple of hours starting at 2:30 AM. What's worse is that neither attention or cuddling, per se, seems to be enough; he wants variety. On top of this, he's not sleeping as long at a stretch as he had been.
Up to this point, we'd been giving him a finger to suck on in lieu of a pacifier; this worked particularly well when we were "finger-feeding" him (i.e., giving him a finger to suck on while squirting milk into his mouth via a syringe). However, a few days ago we moved over to the bottle (in part because our syringes are experiencing increasing levels of Technical Difficulties), and he seems to slowly be figuring out that fingers don't actually have milk in them; he'll still suck on one for a while, but not for long.
So we're trying him out on a pacifier. For me, it's hard not to think of this as some kind of failure; a Real Dad (TM), no doubt, would do without sleep as necessary in order to keep his child entertained (and never mind this pesky Ph.D. that I'm supposedly pursuing), and not resort to sticking a rubber plug in his kid's mouth in a bid to get a couple of hours of sleep. *sigh*
Project Looking Glass
If you follow the "demo" link on the right, you can download a video of a presentation & demonstration.
Somehow this doesn't feel very "3D" to me--it's still very tied to the plane of the display, for one thing--but it's interesting, and I like the fact that it's built using Java (since the open-source project that I work on is Java-based, and has a visualization component, it's nice to have some confirmation that it can do things like this at a pretty decent speed).
If you follow the "demo" link on the right, you can download a video of a presentation & demonstration.
Somehow this doesn't feel very "3D" to me--it's still very tied to the plane of the display, for one thing--but it's interesting, and I like the fact that it's built using Java (since the open-source project that I work on is Java-based, and has a visualization component, it's nice to have some confirmation that it can do things like this at a pretty decent speed).