Solving Checkers, Agency, and Foreknowledge

Posted on September 30, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 15 Comments

This summer I attended one of the major international artificial intelligence conferences, where one of the best paper awards went to Jonathan Schaeffer for his paper “Solving Checkers.” Schaeffer has spent the past 17 years trying to create an unbeatable checkers playing program (For our overseas readers, checkers = draughts played on an 8×8 […]

Is our challenge equal?

Posted on September 30, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 24 Comments

I’ve been reading a fair amount of Church history lately. As always, I am amazed with the challenges that early members of the Church had to overcome. Houses and farms were burned, they were physically beaten, they were driven from their homes in Illinois, Missouri and Ohio. 1842 and 1843 were an […]

What are Perpetual Education Fund recipients doing?

Posted on September 30, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 13 Comments

Deseret News has an interesting article on the PEF today.
Most of the loans are given for education in vocation and technical skills, but a few have been approved for applicants entering dental, medical or legal training programs.
Recent career training options requested include: school teacher, network administrator, computer science, systems […]

Guest Post: What do Prophets Tell Us?

Posted on September 29, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 5 Comments

In honor of General Conference, here’s an excellent guest post by Stephen M. We apologize in advance for things getting a little lost in the system. We’re all very busy at the moment. But we love guest posts. So if you have one please send it our way. There’s a […]

The Good in Humanity

Posted on September 29, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 5 Comments

My place of employment (a military base) is a bit remote. The nearest town is 40 to 60 miles away (depending on where exactly you work), though a large number of employees live much farther than that (90 to 120 miles or more). Therefore, almost all the off-base people are in carpools or vanpools. It […]

Christianity in Action

Posted on September 27, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 9 Comments

Andrew Sullivan linked to this story, stating, “I have waited for his courage to be hailed, especially on conservative Christian blogs. There are few moral evils worse than torture. So why the silence? Why?”
Well, I, for one, hadn’t heard of Fishback’s story. I thank Sullivan for bringing it to my attention, and […]

On Sanctification

Posted on September 27, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 18 Comments

Over at BT there was in interesting discussion of repentance and sexual predators. We had a related discussion here last week. I don’t want to get into those troubling issues, but discuss a tangental issue that seems more broad yet perhaps a point of disagreement among many. When we accept Christ and are […]

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Posted on September 27, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 85 Comments

I’ve enjoyed reading the different interpretations of the Proclamation on the Family, especially the comments on how to reconcile the Proclamation’s “responsibility” language with its “equal partners” language.
As a follow-up question, how and what will you teach your children about their roles and responsibilities in providing for and nurturing their future families?

M* Interviews… John Dehlin

Posted on September 26, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 18 Comments

Last week we interviewed Dallas Robbins who runs Latterday Slant. This week we interview John Dehlin who runs the other major LDS themed podcast, Mormon Stories. Mormon Stories is primarily an interview show that interviews a wide range of people about Mormonism. He’s had two excellent interviews with Greg Prince, for instance, […]

Past Post: “The Proclamation’s One-Way Help Provision”

Posted on September 23, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 64 Comments

The ongoing discussion under Elisabeth’s post on Harvard Stay-at-home-moms has taken an interesting turn. The recent comments parsing the meaning of the Proclamation on the Family reminded me of a post I wrote just over a year ago. Here it is. The original post, found at the unpronouncable blog, here, also had […]

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