Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was designed to write short stories on the subject of betrayal--hence the treacherous name. To teach the innocent computer its sinful ways, the computer scientists who designed it set about "mathematizing the concept of betrayal through a series of algorithms and data structures." Most people might assume that betrayal is not easily mathematized, a subject for human emotion and not for symbol manipulators, but the computer seems to have picked up the vice rather well. (A Rensselaer press release states that the programmers also taught Brutus.1 something of deception, evil, "and to some extent voyeurism...
Seton, a longtime advocate of a smaller council, broke into a grin when asked before the meeting if he thought the legislation might pass...
...know. It just might," he said...
...course, Y2K still might cause a lot of problems in the world's computers. Especially in third-world nations and in former communist countries, Y2K preparedness is not good. While the United States government started debugging its computer systems years ago, other nations have barely started. A serious disaster on New Year's Day is still a real possibility...
...government has built and unveiled last week a $50 million command center to monitor potential Y2K problems. The State Department has offered its diplomats in former Russian republics a ticket home for the duration. The Federal Reserve is printing up an extra $50 billion in currency. This, you might conclude, is going to be one heck of a blizzard...