The Nobel Prize committee labored long and hard to select candidates who would not have a political axe to grind and would not give the impression that the Nobel Committee favored one candidate or another. Edward Prescott was considered to be one such candidate, and earned the Nobel Prize in Economics. Then, without skipping a […]
Derek Denny-Brown quite possibly knows more about implementing the XML specs than any other human being who has ever lived. Today he gives you an overview of some of the biggest issues which are lurking in the shadows for those who attempt to implement these specs. Reading it gives me flashbacks to many instances over […]
I have always been fascinated by the possibility of loading streamed Infosets via custom protocols/serializations through a very simple URI hack (such as ?db://?). The System.Xml stack makes this easy, and now Mark shows you just how. Is that cool or what?
OK, I’ll admit that I found the whole idea of ?Web 2.0? to be somewhat silly, and perhaps wishful thinking for the bubble days of Wired magazine. But with each passing day of reports from Zawodny, I’ve slowly changed my attitude, and I am now ready to declare that Web 2.0 is even cooler than […]
My brother has recently been building sensors that can discriminate odors such as chemical weapons, based on the work of the winner of this year’s nobel prize in medicine. The neural model is proving to be a big step forward in understanding how weform representations ofthe world, more suitable than the traditional symbolic approach for […]