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	<description>The Laws of Science be a harsh mistress</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Three Versions of the Singularity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Landau</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of bits have been spilled talking about the singularity, but I very often find myself with the impression that some of the contributors are talking at cross currents. So in this paper, I would like to lay out several conceptions of what the singularity is, starting with something that&#8217;s fairly uncontroversial, and progressing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Crisis In Science?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Landau</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bayes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Note: This is based off of a discussion I recently lead titled &#8220;Science vs. Bayes.&#8221; Portions of this were inspired by  Overcoming Bias.
Some believe that science is facing a crisis. I don&#8217;t mean those who argue that we are approaching &#8220;the end of science.&#8221; I mean that some physicists are disturbed that those damn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Platonic Mathematics: Are Numbers Real?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 13:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Landau</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to be convinced that mathematical objects are in some sense real. That numbers have an existence independent of humans knowledge of them. Recently, in a Wittgensteinian turn, I&#8217;ve come to the realization that the question &#8220;are numbers real&#8221; is a bad one. The heart of the problem is that the question is ambiguous. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Evolution: Biological and Computational</title>
		<link>http://desuntcetera.com/blog/on-evolution-biological-and-computationa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Landau</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Computer Science]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The genetic algorithm is one method of solving problems in computer science. Although it comes in many flavors, for the purposes of this article I’ll focus on a simple example.
Imagine you have a multiple choice test with 20 questions. Each question can be answered by choosing one of four choices. A compete answer to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Tomato Sauce Can Tell Us About Attraction</title>
		<link>http://desuntcetera.com/blog/what_tomato_sauce_can_tell_us_about_attr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Landau</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My wife turned up this post, in which a blogger goes on a bit of a rant in regards to attractiveness and weight. I’d like to throw my two cents into the pot and comment on two specific things she touches on briefly.

One of the comments she reproduces in her post says:
Society has not conditioned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is what happens when people have inappropriate conceptions about animal behavior</title>
		<link>http://desuntcetera.com/blog/this_is_what_happens_when_people_have_in/</link>
		<comments>http://desuntcetera.com/blog/this_is_what_happens_when_people_have_in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Landau</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Musings]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[WTF]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">43@http://www.desuntcetera.com/blogs/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Note: I originally wrote this article almost a month ago, before the incident involving the teenagers and the tiger at the San Francisco Zoo. After that incident, I decided to hold off posting this until the matter calmed down a bit. Now that reddit isn’t being spammed with constant updates on the incident, I feel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem With Reddit/Digg/Social News Sites</title>
		<link>http://desuntcetera.com/blog/title/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Landau</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">42@http://www.desuntcetera.com/blogs/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been thinking about a post like this for a while, but what finally pushed me over the edge is this: There Is A Reddit Bot War Going On Right Now. Here’s Proof. The link goes to a reddit comment about a bot war over Ron Paul happening on reddit. Apparently, some people have set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time Travel, Paradoxes and Computation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Landau</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Time travel has been a trope of Science Fiction since its inception as a genre. Perhaps the most famous is H. G. Wells “The Time Machine,” which gives us brief glimpses of the future at several points. The idea is certainly seductive. Who wouldn’t want to be able to whiz off to the future to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m not dead!</title>
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		<comments>http://desuntcetera.com/blog/i_m_not_dead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Landau</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the lack of activity. I got married one moth ago as of yesterday. Things have finally settled back down, and I am working on several posts. The first should be ready in a day or two.


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		<title>The Game of Go</title>
		<link>http://desuntcetera.com/blog/the_game_of_go/</link>
		<comments>http://desuntcetera.com/blog/the_game_of_go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Landau</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Go]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Go and Chess are generally considered to be the paradigm of strategy games and pure intellectual pursuit. But not many people have heard of Go in the western world, at least not compared to Chess. Anyone that likes chess is doing themselves a grave disservice by not at least trying out Go. I learned how [...]]]></description>
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