Calvin Smith
Berkeley, CA (USA)
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a Twine neural implant would be nice
I am a happy resident of Berkeley, CA, where I've lived for most of the last 7 years or so, but I have also lived in many other places, including England (where I was born and raised until 12 years old), Sebastopol & Occidental (Sonoma county, northern California), Santa Barbara (southern California), Hong Kong, and Dharamsala, India.
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Calvin's Interests
computer science, mathematics, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, www, semantic web, functional programming, artificial intelligence, pet rats, science, technology, information, learning, books & reading, science fiction, foreign languages, piano & classical music, sf bay area, geneticsCalvin's Twines
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Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them. | Derek SiversTests done since 1933 show that people who talk about their intentions are less likely to make them happen. Announcing your plans to others satisfies your self-identity just enough that you’re less motivated to do the hard work needed.
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New class of black holes discoveredNew class of black holes discovered This is an artist's impression of the new source HLX-1 (represented by the light blue object to the top left of the galactic bulge) in the periphery of the edge-on spiral galaxy ESO 243-49. This is the first strong evidence for the existence of intermediate ...
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Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Bird Navigation Breaks Entanglement RecordThe best theory of bird navigation implies that nature has found a way to preserve entanglement in messy biological systems at body temperature.
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SPACE.com -- Could Life Be 12 Billion Years Old?Much of the search for life outside of Earth's biological oasis has focused on examining the conditions on the other planets in our solar system and probing the cosmos for other Earth-like planets in distant planetary systems. But one team of astronomers is approaching the question of life ...
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PLoS Biology: Light, Sleep, and Circadian Rhythms: Together AgainThe 24-hour (h) light–dark (LD) cycle is a fundamental characteristic of Earth's environment and so its powerful influence on the behaviour and physiology of animals and humans that evolved on this planet is not surprising. In addition to influencing the perception of visual images, light ...
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36A vision lostUnfortunately, the most desirable stuff to export is not available in RDF. For example, the /my-items page is not available in RDF. If you try to navigate to /my-items?rdf via a browser or to access it programmatically with an "Accept: application/rdf+xml" header, you'll get an HTTP 406 ...Calvin Smith added to Aasemoon'z Twine 3 months ago
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36Official Public Records - Order ConfirmationThis page appears to be broken. Perhaps it is only a valid URL if you submitted something to that URL beforehand?Calvin Smith added to Berkeley, CA 5 months ago
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36Locus Online: Vernor Vinge interview excerptsA sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep is in the works!Calvin Smith added to Science Fiction Depot 6 months ago
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36Louis Pasteur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPasteur's birthday was yesterday (Dec. 27).Calvin Smith added to Anniversaries: science, art, ideas of the … 6 months ago