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- Here is one of my favorite examples of a bad proof for what turns out to be a correct theorem. Theorem: If NP is in BPP then the whole polynomial-time hierarchy is in BPP. Let's focus on simply showing Σ2 is in BPP if NP is in BPP. |
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- Je ne sais pas quoi "sert" CCN, si tant est que a doive mme servir quelque chose :... |
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- The US has asked Turkey to put off plans to deploy troops in Iraq, the Turkish prime minister says. |
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- Este fin de semana podremos dormir una hora ms. Durante la madrugada del sbado al domingo los relojes se atrasarn una hora. A las tres de la maana pasarn a ser las dos. Este cambio supone el fin del horario... |
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Oncourse (Oct 24 2003 13:59 GMT) - It is a strange experience. A volunteer job, just for a week: webteacher. Answering questions about Dutch unions and social history of The Netherlands to students ... in Indiana, U. |
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Oncourse (Oct 24 2003 13:59 GMT) - It is a strange experience. A volunteer job, just for a week: webteacher. Answering questions about Dutch unions and social history of The Netherlands to students ... in Indiana, U. |
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- Mel Gibson's upcoming film The Passion of Christ is already stirring up controversy and inflaming tempers and now it appears to be attracting the wrath of God himself. Seattle Post-Intelligencer: AP - Movies NEW YORK -- Don't tell Jan Michelini that lightning doesn't strike twice. Michelini, an assistant director on... |
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- Mel Gibson's upcoming film The Passion of Christ is already stirring up controversy and inflaming tempers and now it appears to be attracting the wrath of God himself. Seattle Post-Intelligencer: AP - Movies NEW YORK -- Don't tell Jan Michelini that lightning doesn't strike twice. Michelini, an assistant director on... |
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- Went outside at about 5:15 this morning, looked up at the starry sky, and noticed a second Milky Way. Even though it looked a bit like the aurora I saw in Alaska a few weeks ago, I figured it was just a cloud pattern. Still, on the outside chance that a solar storm might be pushing northern lights far to the south, I came inside and brought up the Solar Terrestrial Dispatch.Turns out there IS a storm going on: |
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- Conceptual Integrity in Erlang. Fred Brooks said that conceptual integrity was paramount in system design. Niklaus Wirth said that if we add things to a language we should throw away other things. |
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- Houston Chronicle Oct 24 2003 8:16AM ET... |
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- Red Nova Oct 24 2003 8:24AM ET... |
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- Red Nova Oct 24 2003 8:24AM ET... |
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- Red Nova Oct 24 2003 8:24AM ET... |
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- ZDNet Oct 24 2003 8:09AM ET... |
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- USA Today Oct 24 2003 8:12AM ET... |
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- Sydney Morning Herald Oct 24 2003 8:24AM ET... |
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- BBC Oct 24 2003 8:12AM ET... |
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- AP via New Jersey Online Oct 24 2003 8:03AM ET... |
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- Wired: "The notion of Amazon scanning all of its books but allowing users to search only those they own is a clever way around the central barrier to creating a digital archive: Copyrights are distributed among tens of thousands of publishers and authors. But when Manber told Bezos his idea, he found the Amazon founder ready to work on a grander scale. |
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A day off (Oct 24 2003 13:58 GMT) - I'm taking today off from work to prepare for this weekend's activities/festivities. Tonight we are going to a dinner with friends where a couple of our friends will be honored at an awards dinner. It's a formal dinner and tux's are required. Instead of the traditional black/white tux, I opted for one with black/gray strips. The shirt will be red and Ill wear a black ascot. |
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- I drove in to work this morning with a nice warm butt. Perhaps I should explain. One of my gifts... |
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- Busy, busy, busy: Major Research coming soon!. I'm sorry! I haven't been "feeding the monster", to use Al Bonnyman's words, but I have a great reason for not blogging since the end of September... We're getting ready to publish our first research paper, The Public Cost of Increased Commuting in Northern Virginia - An Economic Analysis of Highways, Metrorail, and Congestion Tolls by Professor Anthony Yezer of George Washington University's Center for Economic Research. |
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- Claims that American Anglicans will cut aid to those in the developing world as a punishment for its lack of support over Gene Robinson, have been blasted by the Episcopal Church. |
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- An openly gay former council leader had rejected claims he bullied a member of staff, and blasted the claims of homophobia levelled at him. |
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- Spain is gearing itself up to be the next country facing controversy over same sex marriages, as three couples fight to be given the right to marry. |
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- Resistance to HIV treatments is growing, according to the results in the UK's first resistance monitoring system. |
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- The in fighting between a liberal Canadian bishop and more conservative members of his diocese continues today, with an opponent to the blessing of same sex unions being fired from his vicar position. |
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- Police are offering a #2,500 reward to anyone with information regarding a homophobic attack in the town of Hastings. |
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- Sweden's national church took a step this week to make its same-sex marriage blessing service legally binding, as senior clerics voted to consider a draft proposal next year. |
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- Large health care providers, moving to harness IT for a more data-driven approach to medicine, are likely to spend $30 billion over the next decade in that pursuit, says an IBM executive. |
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- One of the challenges facing any new industry is creating a demand for and an awareness of the industry in the mind of the consumer. Since many Website owners have only a general idea of what search engine optimization (SEO) is and how it works, I've come up with an analogy from another industry that makes it easier to understand. |
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- Ein nicht ganz ernst gemeinter Vorschlag von 123recht: Schlagen Sie einen "Gegner" fr eine Sammelklage vor. Derzeit "fhrt" brigens eine... |
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- Un hospital noruego habilit en la entrada un carril exclusivo para que el personal salude a sus seres queridos sin bloquear la llegada de las ambulancias. |
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- EXECUTED UYGHUR REFUGEE LEFT BEHIND TAPES DETAILING CHINESE TORTURE (RFA) Chinese police used electric chair, nails, in bid to extract confession Chiese authorities in Xinjiang have executed a Uyghur dissident who detailed a grim litany of torture sessions in an unprecedented testimony recorded for Radio Free Asia (RFA), which he requested be held until he was "in a safe place." |
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- Napster is back, but in name only. Back in April I linked to an excerpt from Joseph Menn's All the... |
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- Il mercato dei videogiochi lontano dalle grandi societa' e dai grandi profitti e' sempre stato difficile. Ma il momento sembra ancora peggio del solito nel mercato inglese, dove molti piccoli studi di sviluppo fanno fatica ad andare avanti. Ed e' di poche ore fa la notizia che gli sviluppatori indipendenti della Computer Artworks (CA) sono andati in bancarotta. CA aveva in passato sviluppato... |
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- Dopo le discussioni sulla natura dei 400.000 telefonini N-Gage che Nokia aveva dichiarato di aver venduto nelle prime due settimane di lancio, il colosso fillandese ha chiarito la propria posizione. Il supertelefonino, dotato di tripla banda, Bluetooth, GPRS, MP3, radio FM e videogiochi, ha venduto 400.000 unita' attraverso 30.000 negoazi in oltre 60 paesi. |
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- Beate Paland: Zwei-Dimensionale Hilbert-Kurven |
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- If I were a Christian, I'd learn to take a hint. |
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- Deacon Keith A Fournier is a constitutional lawyer and a graduate of the John Paul II Institute of the Lateran... |
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