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http://www.mrmind.com/ (site is dead now)
The Turing Test was designed to find out whether a machine has intelligence. The idea is one interrogator ‘talks’ to a human and a machine, and if he can’t tell which is which then the machine is intelligent. This is making some fairly bold assumptions about the control subject [...]
Posted at: November 27th, 2001 - 2:50 pm - Number of Comments » 0
That was a headline on the Age website today, so I wrote this :
After cleverly conspiring to send the Taliban forces away to Frankston to visit Aunty Gladys for the weekend, the US called in Channel 7’s Ground Force team to give Afghanistan a beaut Aussie makeover.
With the abundance of sand available, the ground force [...]
Posted at: November 27th, 2001 - 10:10 am - Number of Comments » 0
http://www.keypad.org/bunnies/index.html
Many Volunteer Bunnies risked and lost their lives to bring you this vital piece of research into the strengths and weaknesses of these bunnies. The precise, well documented and illustrated experiments carried out include tests of Oxygen Deprivation, Laser Exposure Endurance and Electrocution Tolerance.
Posted at: November 19th, 2001 - 1:17 pm - Number of Comments » 0
Wow! This was SO good! The story was great, obviously the effects were incredible. But everything about it was just amazing. I didn’t even notice that it was all CG most of the time. The story is so absorbing, and even though the characters weren’t overly developed, you still find yourself [...]
Posted at: November 18th, 2001 - 7:43 pm - Number of Comments » 0
http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html
Remember adventure games? To get the car keys you have to go south get the ferret, sneak up to the homeless guy, put the ferret in the homeless guys pocket so it bites him on the arse and he has to take his pants off, take the pants to the pawn shop and swap [...]
Posted at: November 16th, 2001 - 8:38 am - Number of Comments » 0
This was really good! It had a lot of pace, a simple but effective plot and not too much crapping on. Always moving, full of shock type horror, plenty of tension building throughout the book. The characters aren’t too complicated, but rather than being a failing it just allows more emphasis on [...]
Posted at: November 14th, 2001 - 11:47 pm - Number of Comments » 0
This is a kind of black comedy starring Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts. Brad Pitt is great in this as usual, Julia Roberts manages to not quite be the exact same character she always plays. 5 years ago Jerry(Pitt) ran into the car of a crime boss, who happened to have somebody in the [...]
Posted at: November 7th, 2001 - 8:53 am - Number of Comments » 0
I’m always gonna love a Discworld book anyway, but this one I thought was particularly good. Some of the characters that Pratchett reuses regularly are starting to become less funny – I think he’s becoming a bit too attached to them. In this book though, the central characters are all new, and established characters [...]
Posted at: November 7th, 2001 - 8:46 am - Number of Comments » 0
