A Few Questions Watson Can’t Answer
IBM’s Watson supercomputer has pulled off quite a feat, beating Jeopardy’s top two contestants ever. But it can’t answer every question (or form the right question for every answer, as in the case of Jeopardy). Try these, Watson: Which doctrines in Scripture are “weightier matters” and which are like tithing on spices? What is the main purpose of man’s existence? What is the purpose of the ending of 2001, A Space Odyssey? Which is a better series, The Chronicles of Narnia or His Dark...
Zotero Workshop
Need help learning how to organize your digital life—especially your study files, notes, and links? Check out Duncan Johnson’s workshop at BJU’s Mack Library. Sign up at the link. Researching with Zotero Saturday, Feb. 19 10:00-11:30 AM ML 3 Technology Classroom Zotero makes individual and collaborative research easier. It allows you to easily gather and share reference information and to incorporate that information into your footnotes and bibliographies. It is also completely free, developed...
Eustace
That tiresome old bother, Eustace, makes a royal nuisance of himself throughout the opening chapters of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. But then Aslan gives Eustace a severe mercy: he turns him into a dragon. He shows everyone, including Eustace himself, what is in Eustace's heart. And that humbling experience begins to change Eustace. He starts to help others instead of sulking and skulking. And Lewis makes this insightful comment about Eustace's time as a dragon: "The pleasure (quite new to...
John Frame and Rand Hummel
Ever since I read John Frame I started seeing threes everywhere. His triperspectivalism has a way of worming into your brain and growing a secret third eye. My wife and I even decided to have a baby—three Wards in one house! It’s kind of creepy. So whenever I hear someone give a three-point outline, I can’t help but try to relate it to Frame’s normative, situational, and existential perspectives. As I’ve discussed here before, these perspectives derive in one sense from what I would call...
OpenRange
I live in Taylors, SC, and around here my best option for Internet service has always been BellSouth/AT&T DSL. I didn't want television or phone service, just fast enough Internet to perform common tasks. That meant I was stuck at paying about $40 a month—more before I discovered (they didn't tell me) that I could cancel the obligatory phone service. But just today I got my package in the mail from the new WIMAX provider OpenRange. So far I'm happy with it, and the numbers tell the story:...