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The Walrus on the WWW trilogy

author-unknown — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:08:11 +0000

The Walrus is a very popular Canadian glossy newsstand magazine, rather similar to The Atlantic. The April 2011 issue has a 2,500-word essay built around my WWW trilogy of Wake, Watch, and Wonder. The essay/review is called “Intelligence Deficit: What will happen when computers become smarter than people?,” and is written by Alex Hutchinson. You can read the whole thing online here.

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Parentheses

author-unknown — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:17:18 +0000

(via xkcd)

Every now and then, I stumble on a Wikipedia passage that makes me smile. I don’t usually share them, since calling attention to them almost certainly means they’ll be rewritten or deleted, but in this case I can’t resist. The following is from the Bracket article:

Parentheses may also be nested (with one set (such as this) inside another set). This is not commonly used in formal writing [though sometimes other brackets (especially parentheses) will be used for one or more inner set of parentheses (in other words, secondary {or even tertiary} phrases can be found within the main sentence)].^{[citation needed]}

To the three anonymous editors who together wrote this paragraph, thank you for brightening my day.

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Beanbag — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:24:26 +0000

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