{"id":298,"date":"2008-08-15T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=298"},"modified":"2009-01-14T17:41:35","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T21:41:35","slug":"odd-lots-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><i>Wired<\/i> ran <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/medtech\/drugs\/magazine\/16-04\/ff_kurzweil_sb\">a                 nice piece on how little we know about brain function<\/a>\u2014and                 therefore how silly it is to claim that we&apos;ll have &#8220;superhuman&#8221;                 computation by 2020. If we can&apos;t model it, we can&apos;t duplicate                 it, and the model has proven <i>extremely<\/i> slippery. Good-bye                 singularity, not that it ever made much sense even granting astonishing                 increases in computer power.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timothyfish.net\/Articles\/Article.asp?ID=148\">Here                 are some nice comparison tables<\/a> showing how the pricing models                 of the leading POD houses affect publisher take-home revenues                 at various sales levels.<\/li>\n<li>I now have a photo of John T. Frye on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copperwood.com\/carlandjerry.htm\">my                 Carl &amp; Jerry page<\/a>, in case anyone wondered what the man                 himself looked like. Many thanks to Michael Covington for processing                 the scan for me.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/searchsecurity.techtarget.com\/news\/article\/0,289142,sid14_gci1324395,00.html#\">Vista                 is not bulletproof<\/a>, Microsoft&apos;s assurances to the contrary.                 (Thanks to Pete Albrecht for the link.)<\/li>\n<li>I&apos;m not quite sure what it&apos;s good for, but damn, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronimusic.com\/amsldowin.htm\">this                 is as fun as it is weird<\/a>. (Thanks again to Pete.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired ran a nice piece on how little we know about brain function\u2014and therefore how silly it is to claim that we&apos;ll have &#8220;superhuman&#8221; computation by 2020. If we can&apos;t model it, we can&apos;t duplicate it, and the model has proven extremely slippery. Good-bye singularity, not that it ever made much sense even granting astonishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}