Scott Loftesness

The Washington Post : Style – Resolution 2002: Be It Resolved That . . . Whatever.. WHEREAS the arrival of a new year has long provided an excellent opportunity for personal reflection and intensive self-examination; and…

Eastside Journal – Runner explains `Slow Burn’ philosophy. In his black running tights and sports jacket, 50-year-old Stu Mittleman looked like a taut twine of muscle — the result of years of burning fat. Ever heard of ‘alkalizing the body’?

San Francisco Chronicle – VC system protects profits in downturn. Read about New Enterprise Associates’ policy regarding fees at the end of the article.

NeoWin – Peer to peer: As the revolution recedes. P2P becomes web services.

Looking Back

Summary of 2001/2002 lists. [diveintomark]

With the explosion in spam, it sure seems like the time is right to provide a spam filter based upon neural net technology. Too bad this version is only for Unix geeks. What’s needed is a version that plugs into Microsoft Outlook and does the work on the client desktop.

Save your spam — you may want it to train your own personal neural net!

I guess the question for a developer is whether spending any energy on this opportunity is worth the effort? In other words, how to make money? Sure seems like it’s a classic situation where whatever you do Microsoft will eventually do something similar or maybe just a little bit better, bundle it in the next version of Office, and wipe out the market.

Complexity researchers continue their work at the Santa Fe Institute.

Author Dale Brown loves living in Incline Village.

Farm subsidies are big business.

Bill Gordon created the design for the Arecibo radiotelescope.

“I still think it’s a dream, sometimes, until I look at it,” he said. “But then, I think I know how dreams become reality. Through engineers.”