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...first has to do with a relatively new mechanism for the consumption of opinion writing which is slowly changing the way people interact with news sources: a truly astounding number of weblogs serve largely as aggregators and meta-commentators. Their authors and owners scour the web looking for controversial articles to read, link to, and tear apart in what may very well be the closest thing to meaningful political discourse this country currently has going...
...believe? I believe in those little frogs," the novelist said. This was not J.M. Coetzee, the South African now based in South Australia - he was too busy collecting his 2003 Nobel prize for literature - but his pesky character Elizabeth Costello, whose "Eight Lessons" formed the basis of his last "meta" novel. Stranded at the gates of heaven, she was rambling about the Victorian mudflats of her childhood when Elizabeth Costello came to its oblique...
Chaitin's idea centers on a number he calls omega, which he discovered in 1975 and which is much too complicated to explain here. (Chaitin's book Meta Math! The Quest for Omega, out this month, should help make omega clear.) Suffice it to say that the concept broadens two major discoveries of 20th century math: Gödel's incompleteness theorem, which says there will always be unprovable statements in any system of math, and Turing's halting problem, which says it's impossible to predict in advance whether a particular computer calculation can ever be finished...
...trabajo emplee Latinos y miembros de otras minor?as. "Entrar a nuestro plat? es como ir a Costco", dice. El comediante aspira a que los j?venes latinos que siguen su programa, vean -como ?l lo hizo con Prinze padre cuando hac?a Chico and the Man- que ellos tambi?n pueden tener ?metas, no s?lo sue?os. Lo que es un sue?o para un ni?o mexicano, para los ni?os anglos es una meta...
Above the door of the Dudley Co-op hangs a sign reading, “Center for High-Energy Meta-Physics.†This nickname, playing off the initials HEMP, encompasses the laid-back attitude and free spirit that characterizes the Dudley Co-op and its members...