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spazzon Meet the IOIO - USB breakout board for android w/48 digital+analog IO pins

Ordered! This looks like fun. :)

spazzon Talk to CleverBot - Winner of 2010 Machine Intelligence Competition

"If you are a boy you should not love your boyfriend because you should not have one. If you are a girl then you should love him."

Hm I think CleverBot is a bit homophobic..

spazzon Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (Do You Have Asperger's?)

Ah 26, always a bit disappointing when you get the average score. One issue for me was that since english is not my native language I had to look up quite a few of the words describing different emotions.

Even so I was actually a bit amazed by my own ability to read the different emotions quite quickly since I'm worthless at reading people in real life.

spazzon Jets of seawater for radio antennae

I suspect I'm not the only one tempted to convert the nearest fountain into an antenna. Very nice indeed.

spazzon Non-Profit to Launch Human Into Space Using €50,000 Spaceship

The thought of going into space on something built in a shed has a definite appeal..

spazzon How a swashbuckling breed of computer scientists nearly destroyed Wall Street

The problem isn't the quants, it's the people that doesn't understand what the quants do and that a model is only a model.