Author Archives: Anton

Flo control

Posted on Monday, 2002 March 25 by Anton

Visual cat-pass filter (relayed by Spastic Mutant)

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counting the unseen

Posted on Monday, 2002 March 25 by Anton

politechbot.com: AAAS statistician testifies at Milosevic trial in The Hague

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Schelling points

Posted on Monday, 2002 March 25 by Anton

New Scientist: Neural network ‘in-jokes’ could pass secrets This reminds me of a discussion, years ago on Extropians, of “Schelling points”: for under-constrained problems there may be a cultural preference for particular solutions. For example, if I ask you to … Continue reading →

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found poetry

Posted on Sunday, 2002 March 24 by Anton

If I were given to clichés, I might suggest that if you were to look in the dictionary under “you cannot make this shit up” you’d find a picture of www.We Made Out in a Tree and This Old Guy … Continue reading →

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Anton ‘Mr.’ Sherwood wants to know

Posted on Sunday, 2002 March 24 by Anton

How old is the convention of writing nicknames as middle names, e.g. (taking a handy fictional example) “Tim ‘Curly’ Beamish”? Why do you see even “Tim ‘Curly Tim’ Beamish” (gordelpus) rather than “‘Curly’ Tim Beamish”? What is the convention (if … Continue reading →

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spam watch: “Murkowski Bill” mutates

Posted on Sunday, 2002 March 24 by Anton

I just got a spam with this tag: . . . This message is sent in compliance of the new email Bill HR 1910. Under Bill HR 1910 passed by the 106th US Congress on May 24, 1999, this message cannot be … Continue reading →

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nuke em till they sell

Posted on Sunday, 2002 March 24 by Anton

This gives me a fab idea for a business: produce trinitite for collectors by setting off nukes on the Moon. (It wouldn’t be the same as the original trinitite, because Lunar soil has more aluminum, if memory serves.)

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