Category: technology / video games
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Book Review: The Singularity is Near, by Ray Kurzweil
The singularity refers to a time, sometime in the future, when machines become more intelligent than biological humans, and technology begins to improve rapidly as a result. The Singularity is Near is Ray Kurzweil’s attempt to justify his belief that the singularity is coming sooner than most people think, and what consequences it will have.…
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Dead Hamsters and Dead Leaves
My Xbox 360 finally came back (after being sent off for surgery). Except it’s not my Xbox 360. It’s somebody else’s. Sure, this one works just fine, while mine didn’t, but it’s just not the same. I feel like the kid whose parents “accidentally” killed my hamster in an incident involving plastic tubing and saran…
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We Got a New Camera
So this is a photo-blog now. The camera is a Canon Powershot SD750 and it’s very nice. It can recognize human faces and focus on them, just like The Terminator. It has not, however, killed anybody or time traveled. Yet. I don’t like people much, though, so I only take pictures of dogs. Cuuuute! Cuuuuuuute!…
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