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I thought this was a fascinating read. Anyone do something similar?

I was also at his speech. He had a few good moments, but Sergey is definitely the better public speaker of the two. Larry was a bit awkward.

Oh well, it felt good to have such a notable alumni speak. Go blue!

Who cares about this article? Let's get back to hacking, and hacking-related news.

"Don't forget God. System operators love to use God. It's that whole male ego thing."

Had a 12-person seminar with the founder of Genetic Algorithms, John Holland. Read about him here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Holland

In my opinion, this is his most accessible book (for the topic that is) about GA's:

http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Order-Adaptation-Builds-Complex...

Professor Holland is sharp as hell, insistent about expanding interdisciplinary studies, and a very nice guy.

We don't even have to mandate what it's used for. Just open it up. People will come up with good uses for it. And by people I mean hackers and Google.

Case in point: Hacker News comments vs. Reddit comments vs. Digg comments.

Sure, there's a population bias. But Reddit used to have mostly intelligent comments. Not anymore.

True. But 25% of the population isn't standing in a daily bread line.

We're at less than 7% unemployment. People aren't going hungry. Technically not a recession, but it will be soon. Depression? Absolutely not.