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Radically intelligent alien beings create a supercomputer called Deep Thought in Douglas Adams’ “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” Deep Thought’s sole purpose is to determine “The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.” Deep Thought spends 7 1/2 million years computing and checking the answer. The answer is 42. What a coincidence! This month the Scribbler celebrates 42 years of writing this column. Although no one has ever ...

50 Years of Text Games By Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky Released: October 1984 (Infocom) Language: ZIL Platform: Z-Machine version 3 (Apple II; Atari 8-bit; Commodore 16, Plus/4, 64; PC DOS; Macintosh; TI-99/4A; TRS-80) Opening Text: You wake up. The room is spinning very gently round your head. Or at least it would be if you could see it which you cant. It is pitch black. > inventory You have: a splitting headache no tea Note: contains in-depth discussions of several puzzles, including ...

In this bi-weekly series reviewing classic science fiction and fantasy books, Alan Brown looks at the front lines and frontiers of the field; books about soldiers and spacers, scientists and engineers, explorers and adventurers. Stories full of what Shakespeare used to refer to as “alarums and excursions”: battles, chases, clashes, and the stuff of excitement. Adventure is often presented as serious business, but also benefits from being treated with a light touch. Humor can go a long way t...

Share: Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened? On this day in 1996, world chess champion Garry Kasparov defeated  IBM (NYSE: IBM) chess-playing supercomputer Deep Blue. Where The Market Was: The S&P 500 was at 647.98 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 5,503.32. What Else Was Going On In The World? In 1996, DVDs were launched in Japan and the total number of global internet users surpassed 10 million. A loaf o...

Chess has captured the imagination of humans for centuries due to its strategic beauty—an objective, board-based testament to the power of mortal intuition. Twenty-five years ago Wednesday, though, human superiority on a chessboard was seriously threatened for the first time. At a nondescript convention center in Philadelphia, a meticulously constructed supercomputer called Deep Blue faced off against Garry Kasparov for the first in a series of six games. Kasparov was world chess champion at ...

by Laird A. Breyer Introduction Many people these days depend on Bayesian filters to protect them from the ever present email scourge that is spam. Unlike older technologies, these programs claim to fame is that they learn the spam patterns automatically, and more importantly, learn personalized spam (bad) and ham (good) email patterns. Like many others, I wrote a Bayesian filter to protect me from unwanted email, which I called dbacl. My implementation functions as a Unix command line text...

But he saw it as a gigantic responsibility, one that required preparation, deep thought, long thought, about issues. and hugh will back me up that ronald reagan, despite his critics saying he was shallow and all of that, had all those other qualities. he thought long and hard about issues here. now i think about donald trump sitting in that chair, and i think about the dignity that my father had. and the only way i can think of to explain this to you in this cognitive dissonance is asking you, a...

Dignity. yes, he had fun, sometimes. being president of the united states. but he saw it as a gigantic responsibility. one that required preparation, deep thought, long thought about issues and hugh will back me up that ronald reagan, despite his critics saying that he was shallow and all of that, had all of those other qualities. he thought long and hard about issues. so now i think about donald trump sitting in that chair. and i think about the dignity that my father had. and i -- the only way...

He learned under peron how important symbolism is, how important gestures, refusing to wear the slip e-saying ill live in community as oppose toupd in the palace pinpoint to be amongst people. have homeless people come in for dinner. you can give a lot of sermons and have no impact. you can take one picture washing the feet of women. you can take one picture embracing a man with a disfigured face and that says more about who you are than these sermons. if you read his sermons this man is a man o...

Citizens. again, youre right, we dont know how many people but maybe 1.8 million people fall into this category. should they be able to stay legally? >> we are going to do something, i have been giving it so much thought. you have on a humanitarian basis, a lot of deep thought goes into this i actually have a big heart. something a lot of people dont understand that. but the dreamers its a tough situation. well do something. and one of the things well do is expedite. when something is terrific w...