Archive for March 31st, 2009

Interview with Lars Bak and Kasper Verdich

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

There’s an interview with Lars Bak and Kasper Verdich (Lund), two of the seniour developers of V8 at Financial Times. Also picked up at Slashdot.

I used to work Kasper back in the days when I was working with Coloured Petri Nets.  Lars was working at Sun at the time and had an office on the same floor as us at the Dept. of Computer Science, AU.

We’ve all moved on to more exciting things now, but in all honesty their work for Google might be just a tad sexier than my genetics work. In the eyes of a computer scientist, at least…

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Ah, that time of the year again…

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

…well, in Australia at least.

New work on lateral transfer shows that Darwin was wrong

A new study into the transfer of genetic material laterally, or across taxonomic divisions, has shown that evolution does not proceed as Darwin thought, and that in fact the present theory of evolution is entirely false. Instead, it transpires that lateral genetic transfer makes new species much more like Empedocles‘ “random monster” theory over 2000 years ago had predicted.

An exciting result from researches at the University of Münchhausen.

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…the rest of us have to wait a few hours before our fun begins…