MSN Messenger� Invasion of the Robots Contest - About Contest & BOT API

MSN Messenger� Invasion of the Robots Contest - About Contest & BOT API

ChatterBean: Flexible Alicebot

ChatterBean: Flexible Alicebot
Looks like a great tool to develop AIML bots in Java

A Star Is Made - New York Times

Apparently it's most likely that talent is not primarily innate, but can be developed by practice.

Anders Ericsson, a 58-year-old psychology professor at Florida State University ...is the ringleader of what might be called the Expert Performance Movement...
Deliberate practice entails more than simply repeating a task — playing a C-minor scale 100 times, for instance, or hitting tennis serves until your shoulder pops out of its socket. Rather, it involves setting specific goals, obtaining immediate feedback and concentrating as much on technique as on outcome.

Much more on this can be found in the "Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance"

Political Typology Test

Reasonably good way to find out wehre you stand. Divides the political spectrum up into
- Enterprisers
- Social Conservatives
- Pro-Government Conservatives
- Upbeats
- Disaffecteds
- Liberals
- Conservative Democrats
- Disadvantaged Democrats
- Bystanders

I'm a Liberal. And proud of it.

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