Dec 17, 2004: Anhinga (female) (photo)

( selected articles from Dec 17, 2004 - Jun 17, 2005 )

Tart Cherries in North Andover, MA

(Estimated dates for PYO: July 4 ~ 18, via mypehka writing at ptchk)

The most weird moment at BU neuroconference was when Mark D'Esposito from UC Berkeley casually mentioned that they are using TMS to create reversible temporary lesions in the brains of human subjects (for about 10 min).

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Trying to write about Ninth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems (Schedule) and a new way to keep oneself awake.

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Тестовый сайт "Комсомолки" зажигает !

Ищу достойные аналоги для англоязычных текстов, а то CNN скучный очень...

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A quite decent automatic CS paper generator. The generated papers even have a decent chance of being accepted at "junk conferences".

Hat tip: mathemajician and aa_kir

UPDATE: made CNN.

More photos from the Long Beach Aquarium

Cema pointed my attention to the fact that one of the smartest modern philosophers, Nick Bostrom, now has a separate Web site dedicated to the Simulation argument.

One of the benefits of paid accounts is that they provide a "Friends of Friends" page. This is especially interesting for those who like LiveJournal for its ability to make remixes via the mechanism of Friends page. This "Friends of Friends" page is quite public, that is, if an account has it, everyone can access it.

However, the standard LiveJournal format does not provide links to such "Friends of Friends" pages even for the accounts which have them, so an owner of a paid account might want to post such links for convenience.

So here is my Friends of Friends page.

A nice Wikipedia featured article on ionised atomic hydrogen regions in space with some spectacular Hubble pictures, like this picture of star-forming pillars:



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