Checkout this amazing photo of the Milky Way seen from inside a cave. This is the latest work from Wally Pacholka. [LINK]
“Pacholka, 59, an architect from Long Beach, California, relied on the light of a crescent moon to illuminate the subject and chose the area because of the near-absence of ambient light.
He said: ‘I had to drive 800 miles each way five times to get the shot right. And I had to hike two miles to the cave and back again at night, getting lost each time I came out.’
His …

The Loebner Prize finals are taking place today [LINK]. This is a Turing Test competition. A double-blind test where humans converse with a mixture of humans and computers. The human test subjects then have to determine which are which. If a computer succeeds at fooling the human into thinking it’s human, it’s said to have passed the Turing Test.
Finalists are Alice, Brother Jerome, Elbot, Eugene Goostman, Jabberwacky and Ultra Hal
Chat with A.L.I.C.E. [LINK]
Chat with Brother Jerome [LINK]
Chat with Elbot [LINK]
Chat with Eugene Goostman [LINK]
Chat with Jabberwacky [LINK]
Chat with Ultra …