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2009-06-29 08:23 pm

/. interview with Neal Stephenson

This is not at all new--it's from 2004--but I figured, what the hell, I'd never seen it. So here, /., have some more PageRank. And maybe one of you all will enjoy this:

http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/04/10/20/1518217.shtml?tid=192&tid=214&tid=126&tid=11

I sure did. :)
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2009-03-13 11:39 am

Elmo vs. Ricky Gervais

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr9_5uZn6ds

...off-script.

Definitely worth watching unless you just can't stand listening to Elmo's voice. (Elmo, speaking to someone off-camera: "When did you lose control of this interview? Get it back! Get it back!")
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2008-06-13 10:09 am
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for the Douglas Hofstadter fans in the audience

a recent interview: http://tal.forum2.org/hofstadter_interview

I did not expect his position vis-a-vis AI to be what it is. Perhaps not terribly surprising in retrospect, though.

(Note to self: acquire copy of I Am A Strange Loop.)
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2005-09-28 10:40 am
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