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Robots take over Science!

apparently, an IEEE-endorsed conference just accepted a generated paper, and not just in the bogus we don't review mode where generated papers have been accepted before, but in a reviewed submission process. unfortunately, the reviews are not publicly available (they... Read more →

300!

no, i am not talking about the movie. i simply reached 300 posts on my blog, which is of no significance whatsoever. after blogging like a madman in september, the ensuing burnout left the blog almost silent for the past... Read more →

Sony Touchscreen E-Book

a little over a year after Sony released its last e-book update (the PRS-505), it now has released a new reader which is quite a bit more interesting than the rather small improvements of the PRS-505 over the PRS-500. the... Read more →

iTunes XML

iTunes has many nice features, but Apple's approach to control everything and anything users do and can do, can make data management unnecessarily hard. i just had to move all my music (43GB, 7'500 songs) from one hard drive to... Read more →