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Phil tweeted, "@jeremyhanks Come to my CTO breakfast. This would be a great discussion topic. Are you on the mailing list?"
Phil tweeted, "@jeremyhanks I agree completely. I think Silicon Slopes sounds too much like a "me too" thing. I've hated since the first time I heard it."
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Phil tweeted, "Installing XP on the family iMac for wife to use for PAF. Realized there's no sense installing XP from scratch; I'll just copy my image."
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Phil tweeted, ""it's merely a matter of whose civilians die and my military's job is to make sure they're yours instead of mine." http://bit.ly/QUEs"
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Cat Brains and Bionic Eyes

This article from New Scientist about how scientists recorded the reponses of 49 neurons in a cat’s brain (the lateral geniculate nucleus, or LGN to be precise) in order to create a better bionic vision system reminds me or the sentient lobsters in Accelerando by Charles Stross.

Posted by windley on May 24, 2008 8:06 PM

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