Results for “One Laptop Per Child”

… is a migration to the famous Vanity Fair party hosted by Graydon Carter at the Sunset Tower Hotel owned by Jeff Klein. One celebrity after another poses in front of the green hedge standing in the middle of the circular Vanity Fair logo to record their devotion and support to Gr...

…s should ask the UN General Assembly to rescind Resolution 181 and to request a new resolution for the establishment of one state in historic Palestine. Although this responsibility falls under the Security Council, the constant exercise by the US of its veto power to protect Isr...

…s stay out of the dispute, and not allow it to affect their alliance with his government. The Obama administration has done just that. Through comments in secret diplomatic cables, the former ambassador to Kazakhstan made clear his wariness of being drawn in. "Both sides — the go...

…elected Islamists. It’s not a choice we should accept. TB: So what should we do? DP: I offer three simple guidelines. One, always oppose the Islamists. Like fascists and Communists, they are the totalitarian enemy, whether they wear long beards in Pakistan or suits in Washingto...

… Americans as well, urged me to reconsider. But I said I saw no point in staying. What I didn’t know, however, was that one of the Palestinians’ original Oslo negotiators, Hassan Asfour, had approached Dennis Ross with a new proposal: that we ask Arafat to accept everything excep...

…ne of hacktivists. “I’m a friend,” Snowden wrote to Lee. “I need to get information securely to Laura Poitras and her alone, but I can’t find an email gpg key for her.” The “gpg” encryption key he asked for, more commonly called a PGP key, was the so-called public key for an encr...

…otes in a chromatic scale, multiplying it by five (in what mathematicians call) mod 712 (the numbering system goes from one to twelve, not ten, before it repeats), one can recover the circle of fourths, the commonest harmonic chord progression in music.” Though her computational...

…rticles make their choice without any information from an outside source; particles have free will. This means at least one new piece of information spontaneously appears in the Universe — a ‘bit’ of free will, so to speak. You might think there is a problem because the first pa...

…[email protected]> wrote: evangelicals confirmed in their belief of a divine hand. I kid you not. their view. how else ,could one explain DJT winning. To a person they never knew him. On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Larry Summers wrote: Softbank deputy guy i liked and seemed aware an...

…tributed Atomspace: An implementation of an Atomspace that spans multiple com- putational processes; generally this is done to enable spreading an Atomspace across mul- tiple machines. e Dual Network: A network of mental or informational entities with both a hierarchical structu...

…olt, and each is better off revolting only if sufficiently many others revolt. Quirks of Altruism and the Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma with Incomplete Information The Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma has famously been used as an explanation for the evolution of cooperation among non-...

…" would count as "outer game," for example. Most successful PUAs reach a point where they decide that, in the words of one coach: emotionless "sport-fucking kinda sucks." (Some PUAs start at this point, but that is a bit unusual.) They conclude that it's time to pull back from t...

…l not reveal any privileged communications here or any confidential information, but on December 30th, I was aware that one of the preeminent lawyers in the United States, David Boies, had agreed to represent Virginia Roberts and given the vast amounts of business that tries to g...

…leled eloquence. A great Jewish sage once wrote, "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am for myself alone what am I? And if not now, when?" Elie Wiesel lives by that tripartite philosophy. He is the voice of the Jewish people - their international moral spokesma...

* early-stage life science-based ventures, especially those with one or more of these technologies: optics, wearable-sensors, brain-computer interface, behavioral engineering that goes beyond robo- noodging. I am not up to speed on synthetic bio and CRISPR, but I have a good frie...