Monday, July 31, 2006
The Emperor's New Mind
It has been a week since I bought and started reading "The Emperor's New Mind" by Roger Penrose. And I am still into the 2nd chapter. At this point, I have read about Strong-AI, Chinese Room, Algorithms and Turing machines.
It is pretty convoluted stuff but I hope to finish it somehow. The title was suggested by themanwhowrote.
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Current Music : Naina/Omkara
It is pretty convoluted stuff but I hope to finish it somehow. The title was suggested by themanwhowrote.
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Current Music : Naina/Omkara
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
GER : ITA
I strongly hope that Die Nationalmannschaft will crush the Azzurri because the latter don't deserve to be there.
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The Mail has an interesting article about the English football team, on how they make things difficult and, shoot themselves in the foot.
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Sometime during the teeth-grinding ordeal of Tuesday night's second-half between England and Sweden, the shires faced up to a savage realisation. Watching England in a tournament is exhausting. A risk to personal health. It's an emotional Tour de France of exasperating blows and second-half farragos...
...On the full three-hour tour, gawping visitors will re-live the Hand of God goal in 1986, Gazza's tears at Italia 90, the Euro 96 semi-final epic against Germany and the excruciating England-Argentina clash at France 98. Not forgetting the defeats against France and Portugal at Euro 2004, where England were loyal to their habit of seizing the initiative and then handing it back...
...Trying to cover the big England games for tight evening deadlines has left many a football writer with a thousand-yard stare. The story-line changes so violently that it's like chasing an escaped lunatic through a forest. There's no telling which way he will go next. A red card here, a late equaliser there, a penalty shoot-out, just as the newspaper is begging to go to bed.
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The Mail has an interesting article about the English football team, on how they make things difficult and, shoot themselves in the foot.
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...On the full three-hour tour, gawping visitors will re-live the Hand of God goal in 1986, Gazza's tears at Italia 90, the Euro 96 semi-final epic against Germany and the excruciating England-Argentina clash at France 98. Not forgetting the defeats against France and Portugal at Euro 2004, where England were loyal to their habit of seizing the initiative and then handing it back...
...Trying to cover the big England games for tight evening deadlines has left many a football writer with a thousand-yard stare. The story-line changes so violently that it's like chasing an escaped lunatic through a forest. There's no telling which way he will go next. A red card here, a late equaliser there, a penalty shoot-out, just as the newspaper is begging to go to bed.
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