Alexander Williams

"I was stunned," Schipke says. "It was like finding a picture of Bill Gates in the Dead Sea Scrolls. The colophon [the title page] named the copyist as Udo of Aachen, and I just had to find out more about more...

Quake 3 is a great place to start for developers wanting to look into commercial AI. It’s certainly not a trivial implementation, but it’s probably as simple as you can make a fully featured AI engine and ship it in more...

“The telephone may offer a better parallel to the internet than the telegraph, since the phone became a popular medium in a way the telegraph never matched. Invented in 1876, the telephone is just as “Victorian” as the telegraph, but more...

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If it’s true that “on the Internet nobody knows if you’re a dog”, how do you convince people that you’re a prince? Richard Fernandez looks at the renewed importance of reputation when your entire life history is just a Google more...

“Today's tax codes are complicated, but the ancient Aztecs likely shared your pain. To measure tracts of taxable land, Aztec mathematicians had to develop their own specialized arithmetic, which has only now been decoded.”

The Babalu Blog (now on the blogroll) has the full text of his resignation in Granma. The key line: "And I reiterated in that letter that …I never forget that ‘all of the world’s glory fits in a kernel of more...

“Ms. Pac-Man is a different story. The ghosts are programmed for randomness, so there isn’t a pattern that exists to beat it–the ghosts behave differently in each game. But there is one technique that will earn a player an incredible more...

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Did Asa Carter become a different person in the 1970s than he was in the 1950s and 1960s? I don't know. I'd like to believe in redemption. What would Martin Luther King, Jr., whose birthdate we celebrate this month and more...