Slashdot has a tip. The current interface is not the best of the webmail offerings IMHO…
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The NYT’s Week in Review has a piece on Algorithms. It turns out the word ‘Algorithm’ comes from a corruption of the Latinized version of the name of the Baghdad scholar Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, author of the Arabic treatise “On the Hindu Art of Reckoning†which introduced the decimal number system to the West in the 12th Century A.D.
The author sees ever more complex algorithms that encode human learning, and ever faster hardware, as blurring the man-machine divide. Will evolving algorithms beat AI to sentience? Hmmm…
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So, for the last 4 years, we’ve been going to a 5 PM service at Trinity Episcopal Church. Three weeks ago our new Rector, Mike Spillane introduced a new schedule with 8:30 and 10:30 services linked by a forum on faith issues. It makes a lot of sense, and everyone has worked hard to bring energy and joy to these services. Amen.
But it means getting up and going to church on Sunday morning, something we haven’t done regularly for 13 years, we realize. I used the opportunity to set the Leica D2 to black & white, and snapped this photo of newly-ordained deacon Beth Foote reading the gospel today. I have since re-programmed the D2 not to make any beeps, clicks or obnoxious noises… oops…
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