The dark side of Little Miss Sunshine
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014Attending Oscar-winning screenwriter Michael Arndt‘s talk “Endings: The Good, The Bad, and The Insanely Great” at the
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SciBarCamp
Sunday, March 16th, 2008Carolyn and I had a good time Friday and Saturday at SciBarCamp at the University of Toronto, but we blew off going today. Yesterday, I attended a nice session on John Searle’s classic “Chinese room paradox.” I also led a session on the World Wide Web gaining consciousness. One fellow, thinking he was above the […]
SciBarCamp in Toronto
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008In 2006, I was a participant at the inaugural Science Foo Camp (or SciFooCamp; “Foo” is short for “Friends of O’Reilly,” the giant computer-book publisher). The event was co-sponsored by O’Reilly and the journal Nature (which published one of my stories back in 2000 — “The Abdication of Pope Mary III,” a little number called […]