Hiring a President
Monday, November 1, 2004
Ok, so this is my
second non-Lisp post in two days (and
some of you aren't too happy about it), but I promise to
stop soon. ;-)
I just wanted to point out an excellent article by
Peter Norvig (author of the wonderful book
"Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming") titled "
Hiring a President". He is very articulate in laying out the
reasons why Bush should not get the job.
In related news: A useful election resource that I've been referring to over the past
few months has been the
Electoral Vote Predictor - a site that tabulates predicted Electoral
College votes (Note: a good summary of how
the Electoral College system in the US works is
here) and graphically displays them on a map of the USA (have a look at the
Cartogram map view for a more "balanced" view of the weights of
the different US states in this election). The site was
Slashdotted today, so response times may be a bit slow. I was surprised to find
out that the
author of the site is
Andrew Tanenbaum, a well-known CS figure who now lives in Amsterdam. Having lived outside of the
US for over half my life, I can relate to
his reasons for creating the web site.
