"Joey! It's Chris from Sloan!"LinkDiscuss [Boing Boing]
Once again, Sloan may not be familiar to people outside Canada, but they were -- at least until their current album, which ain't so hot -- a band with a knack for really good songwriting."Play some Sloan! Do you know any Sloan? Play some Sloan!" she screamed.
I started playing their first big single, the grunge anthem of unrequited university love, Underwhelmed:
She was underwhelmed if that's a word
I know it's not 'cause I looked it up
It's one of those things I learned in my school...
Chris' face first showed curiosity. Then it showed recognition. Followed by shock. And then we didn't see his face at all."He's...he's running away!" said Meryle, who burst out laughing.
"Come back, you coward!" I yelled. "Even Alanis would've faced me!"
Chronicle Books editor Alan Rapp shared this photo with BoingBoing co-editor David Pescovitz (see this website if you don't get the joke). More stuff from readers:
Australian blogger Andrew Bulhak shot these photos (one and two) of masked mannequins in a Melbourne storefront. Sean spotted a SARSparilla ad and the Official SARS Website which will totally flip out and kick your ass.
Charles V. painted this for you, e-mail him to purchase prints.
Eli the Bearded points us to this story from North Korea claiming creation of a wacky new anti-SARS drug made from ginseng, gold, and platinum. Charlie O in Seattle submits this on-stage snapshot of indie band Melt Banana's guitarist: "I didn't get a chance to ask him if this was just for the stage, but he played the whole set in a facemask."
Canadian BoingBoing reader Kean Soo writes: "I only recently discovered sarsart.org, but wish I had found it sooner. I've already been exposed to some of the direct-and-less-than-savoury discrimination as an Asian living here in Toronto. Since then, I've been obsessed with SARS, and since I've been keeping a semi-daily journal comic online, I figured I would write about it in some way. It isn't finished, but I do have one panel that I turned into a wallpaper."
Blogger kaminogoya from Osaka, Japan found the provocative photo at left (Link to full-size image). If anyone knows who took the shot, please let me know.
Taiwanese blogger Wei-Chung Yang says, "I noticed that your project doesn't include any works from Taiwanese artists, so here are some of mine. I created a comic series that combines the two hottest issues in Taiwan right now - SARS, and the hugely popular TV show, Taiwan Thunder Fire, whose protagonist also plays a starring role in my blog comic. His name is Liu Wen-Tsung the Beast, played by Taiwanese actor Ching Young. Liu Wen-Tsung is a 'never-nice' guy -- he bankrupted his own father, and killed a bunch of people for personal gain. But he's cool, tough, and loved by the TV audience, hence his nickname 'the Beast' . So, my comic is called The Diary of the Beast about SARS."View Wei-Chung Yang's amazing contributions here.
Discuss. Read about it in The South China Morning Posthere (600k JPEG). Future contributions will be added to the SARS Art Project Archive website, and we may post brief updates on BoingBoing from time to time. Much gratitude to each of the artists and bloggers who contributed, and to Sean Bonner for building sarsart.org. Very special thanks to Reverse Cowgirl for introducing us to many of the illustrators and artists who generously created original works exclusively for this project. Susannah, this wouldn't have happened without you.
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First, there's the issue of whether a computational model can, in any amount of time, solve a certain problem. Recall that it was Turing's proof that there are problems that the Turing machine cannot solve, notably the Halting Problem. This is an extension of Godel's incompleteness principle. Keep this in mind: Turing's accomplishment was not showing the universality of the machine, although he did do that; it was in showing the fundamental limits of it.
Now even given two models that can solve a problem, there's still performance questions. This isn't a trivial difference; a model that can solve a problem in polynomial time really is fundamentally more powerful than one that takes exponential time. And there are tons of computational complexity classes above the standard P and NP that represent problems that deterministic and non-deterministic Turing Machines can solve in polynomial time. Just for one example, the class of problems that can be solved by a Turing Machine that can, in turn, use another Turing Machine as an oracle is more powerful than a single Turing Machine.
