Thanks to the blog Futurismic I came across this article about a bot that was programmed that can pass the false belief test.  The test is typically passed in humans at about the age of four or five.  It basically consists of figuring out that other people see the world differently than you do. In [...]

Earlier I wrote a post on how it is now possible for a single person to have the power of Google because of all the technologies available. Well, the NYTimes went out and implemented the idea before the ink was even dry on my post.  They’ve now proven it is possible, and their post makes [...]

Michael Feathers has an interesting post up on the Beautiful Code blog.  In the post he notes the seeming oncoming rise of functional languages and then bemoans this because they are not object oriented and therefore cannot be easily tested. Michael feels that a strength of object oriented programming is its ability to overwrite methods [...]