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Here are some snips from Teytelman’s post Facebook’s Most Popular University . I found it amusing that a Malaysian university took pride in " beating Cambridge " in terms of the number of "likes" and touted it in press and on social media, with ambitious plans to double their total FB likes
That statement is at best debatable, and most likely a proven lie.
Also note that Last-Ditch Russian Gas Talks to Resume .
Link: New Rules for Iraqis: Repent or Die, Say 5 Daily Prayers, Women Not Allowed Outside; Grim Massacres
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Taken from: Goldman Sachs President Inadvertently Explains Why Cantor Lost; Reflections on the Bush Years
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The Guardian reports Computer Simulating 13-Year-Old Boy Becomes First to Pass Turing Test A "super computer" has duped humans into thinking it was a 13-year-old boy to become the first machine to pass the Turing test, experts have said. Five machines were tested at the Royal Society in central London to see if they could fool people into thinking they were humans during text-based conversations. The test was devised in 1950 by computer science pioneer and second world war codebreaker Alan Turing, who said that if a machine was indistinguishable from a human, then it was "thinking".