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City officials defend the ordinance as necessary to prevent collisions between pedestrians and bikers. It seems they believe that the danger posed to pedestrians by slow-moving, 50 pound bikes is much greater than the danger posed to bikers by fast-moving, 3000 pound cars. Not only does the ordinance put lives at risk, but it will annoy both bikers and drivers. In Harvard Square, traffic is often bumper-to-bumper and cars are always parked along the sides of streets, so bikers will often have no place to ride, giving students who live in the Quad nowhere...
...President Clinton. The final tally was 64-36, with Democratic Minority Leader Tom Daschle and one other Democrat voting for the GOP measure. By the end of the day, TIME?s Karen Tumulty reports, the outlook for the bill that looked virtually veto-proof in the morning was darkening fast. The bill would outlaw the late-term procedure except when a woman is at risk of death and no other medical procedure can be used to terminate the pregnancy. The doctors group agreed to support the measure after Republican leaders incorporated language giving physicians greater protection against prosecution when they...
...fast, someone might say. The human brain is a machine too. How can we dismiss Deep Blue as just a machine when we don't dismiss the human brain as just a machine...
That said, don't sell computers short. What's important about Deep Blue's success is what it tells us about the nature of computer science. We like to think of it as a fast-moving field. In fact, it is plodding but not easily discouraged. In the 1950s, many scientists decided that chess playing was an area in which computers could make rapid headway. Some predicted the imminent coming of a world-champion computer. But the problem turned out to be much harder than they imagined, as did many other problems in artificial intelligence. Outsiders tended to write...
...technique behind Deep Blue is "parallel computing." To solve a hard problem fast, use lots of computers simultaneously. Deep Blue is a computer ensemble: 32 general-purpose computers, each one attached to eight special-purpose processors. Parallel computing used to be (believe it or not) controversial. Some computer scientists were worried that programmers wouldn't be able to manage lots of computers simultaneously. In retrospect, it was a piece of cake...