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	<description>life is one big tradeoff</description>
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		<title>NAACL HLT 2009 impressions</title>
		<link>http://www.heuristicism.ca/2009/06/03/naacl-hlt-2009-impressions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So NAACL is just finishing up (I&#8217;m at CoNLL tomorrow and the day after). This was the first time I&#8217;ve been to a big conference (well, any conference) and it was different from what I expected, but mainly only because of one thing: presenters suck. In order for a presentation to be good, a variety [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remaining questions after the Battlestar Galactica series finale</title>
		<link>http://www.heuristicism.ca/2009/03/22/remaining-questions-after-the-battlestar-galactica-series-finale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.heuristicism.ca/2009/03/22/remaining-questions-after-the-battlestar-galactica-series-finale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.heuristicism.ca/?p=59</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Boy, was that an interesting finale.  It wasn&#8217;t what I expected, and for a while I thought it was going to end kind of lamely, but that last minute or two at the very end really finished it off nicely. However, it was a bit of a cop-out because a number of things went unexplained.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real live nuts</title>
		<link>http://www.heuristicism.ca/2009/02/10/real-live-nuts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pseudoscience]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was on the bus today on my way to school when I overheard some (older) people talking.  One lady seemed to have mentioned bipolar disorder, to which the other responded &#8220;Yeah, it&#8217;s such bullshit, everyone has bipolar.&#8221;  They mentioned a few other things, such as how doctors use them as guinea pigs and how [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Some thoughts on Canadian politics</title>
		<link>http://www.heuristicism.ca/2008/12/21/some-thoughts-on-canadian-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.heuristicism.ca/2008/12/21/some-thoughts-on-canadian-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a fair bit going on in Canadian politics of late.  The biggest thing would probably be the parliamentary dispute.  I&#8217;ve heard a number of things said about the idea of a Liberal-NDP coalition: It&#8217;s undemocratic It&#8217;s immoral to team up with separatists It&#8217;s a dirty grab for power I must say that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atheism: just as valid, if not more so</title>
		<link>http://www.heuristicism.ca/2008/09/22/atheism-just-as-valid-if-not-more-so/</link>
		<comments>http://www.heuristicism.ca/2008/09/22/atheism-just-as-valid-if-not-more-so/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.heuristicism.ca/?p=32</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of things have happened at the University of Alberta recently.  First, Ian, the University of Alberta Atheists and Agnostics (UAAA) president wrote an article in the Gateway student newspaper talking about secular convocation.  Second, the huge poster that UAAA had up in CAB was vandalized. Now, I&#8217;m going to leave the arguing over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The problem with being a sceptic: vi vs. Emacs</title>
		<link>http://www.heuristicism.ca/2008/08/05/the-problem-with-being-a-sceptic-vi-vs-emacs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.heuristicism.ca/2008/08/05/the-problem-with-being-a-sceptic-vi-vs-emacs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Programming]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, that&#8217;s one hell of a title. I&#8217;ll get to the vi vs. Emacs part in a bit. Most religious people wouldn&#8217;t walk in to a bookstore and come out with The God Delusion or The End of Faith.  The reasons behind this vary from fear of being wrong (or of having devoted one&#8217;s life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Knol</title>
		<link>http://www.heuristicism.ca/2008/07/23/google-knol/</link>
		<comments>http://www.heuristicism.ca/2008/07/23/google-knol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Intelligent Design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read about Google&#8217;s new Knol.  Basically, it&#8217;s Google&#8217;s take on online encyclopaedias.  We all know Wikipedia, and while I&#8217;ve defended it in the past (and currently maintain my position) it does have some undeniable issues: Verifiability.  Wikipedia is great to get some information or learn some new things.  But it just cannot work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Stenger</title>
		<link>http://www.heuristicism.ca/2008/06/30/thoughts-on-stenger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.heuristicism.ca/2008/06/30/thoughts-on-stenger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday I drove down to Calgary with Ian to go to a talk (and book-signing) by Dr. Victor Stenger, a physicist who has written a number of books.  His talk was focused on his latest book, God: The Failed Hypothesis.  I wish now I had written some of this down, but I didn&#8217;t, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common fallacies in the way many people think</title>
		<link>http://www.heuristicism.ca/2008/06/29/common-fallacies-in-the-way-many-religious-people-think/</link>
		<comments>http://www.heuristicism.ca/2008/06/29/common-fallacies-in-the-way-many-religious-people-think/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cosmological argument]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my conversations with people (friends or otherwise, religious or otherwise), I often find many of them making the same mistakes.  I thought it&#8217;d be useful to outline these fallacies and what exactly is wrong with them.  Keep in mind that I cannot make attribute these fallacies generally without extensive testing; I am just trying [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>How I found enlightenment</title>
		<link>http://www.heuristicism.ca/2008/01/19/how-i-found-enlightenment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.heuristicism.ca/2008/01/19/how-i-found-enlightenment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time I chronicled the sacred journey that has led to my supreme enlightenment. It has been a long one and while it continues still I believe now is the time that I can begin my Great Work upon this world – to share my enlightenment with all of humanity. It is the will of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wikipedia FTW</title>
		<link>http://www.heuristicism.ca/2007/03/24/wikipedia-ftw/</link>
		<comments>http://www.heuristicism.ca/2007/03/24/wikipedia-ftw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 06:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the bad rep that Wikipedia has been receiving lately, people don&#8217;t seem to want to acknowledge just how bloody useful the thing is (I, for one, can attribute many hours of my life to it). A number of people I know have complained about the bad information on the site, but give it [...]]]></description>
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