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I've been thinking for quite some time now that maybe I should stop posting on this blog. There are many reasons behind this decision an...

Google.org recently announced Flutrends , a web site that provides estimates of flu activity in the US based on search queries. I'm no...

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you will see every problem as a nail." - Abraham Maslow This week, I've been experimen...

Interested in Computer Go? Then you probably already know about Don Dailey's excellent work on providing a number of Monte Carlo refere...

Ok, so the pattern matching idea kind of backfired. I was under the impression that a function's default arguments wouldn't be eval...

I've been rewriting the deftemplate code for MPS more or less from scratch... but I'll have to talk about that some other time. It...

All those who have tried to write a rules-based program know that there are, at least, two differences between "regular" programmi...