Daily Archives: August 10, 2003
Absent-Minded Professor Kills Own Son
IRVINE – A 10-month-old boy was pronounced dead today shortly after police broke a window and pulled the child from a locked car in a parking lot of the UC Irvine campus, a university official said. Michael Warschauer, whose father … Continue reading
Spam Filters That Fight Back
Paul Graham writes extensively on the Spam Wars. His article "A Plan for Spam" explains Bayesian filtering, where an "intelligent" filtering agent is continually learning according to your actions and corrections of its efforts. "The Achilles heel of the … Continue reading
California Field Narrowed to 155
The great state that brought us Richard Millhouse Nixon, our nation’s only (half) Quaker president, the quintessentially American idea of hiring an Actor to be President, the state which, together with Texas, killed the Kennedy Camelot, the state responsible for … Continue reading