This is the first weekend in a while when I haven’t finished at least one book from the List. So my little header above is much shorter than usual for the beginning of the week.
Instead, some links:
- A neat idea for filtering spam based on Bayesian analysis of words used in your e-mail messages.
- A cool, but creepy article about wiring artificial eyes into people’s heads (including at least one somewhat squirm-inducing picture of an electronic cable entering someone’s head through a metal-rimmed hole). What particularly impressed me is the idea that people’s brains can learn to make sense of inputs, and see, even though the nature of the those inputs is almost certainly different in all sorts of ways from what the eye provides.
- Finally, an interesting discussion of how the digital “revolution” in the music industry may be just what the classical music industry needs. The purveyors of pop can crash and burn miserably as far as I’m concerned: as long as orchestras can fund themselves from a combination of concerts and releasing performances themselves.
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