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From Breitbart:

Renowned British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has bet 100 dollars (70 euros) that a mega-experiment this week will not find an elusive particle seen as a holy grail of cosmic science, he said Tuesday.

In the most complex scientific experiment ever undertaken, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be switched on Wednesday, accelerating sub-atomic particles to nearly the speed of light before smashing them together.

“The LHC will increase the energy at which we can study particle interactions by a factor of four. According to present thinking, this should be enough to discover the Higgs particle,” Hawking told BBC radio.

“I think it will be much more exciting if we don’t find the Higgs. That will show something is wrong, and we need to think again. I have a bet of 100 dollars that we won’t find the Higgs,” added Hawking, whose books including “A Brief History of Time” have sought to popularise study of stellar physics.

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I’m ready for the science smack down if he is wrong.

Today Luke Galea posted on the erlang-questions mailing list regarding some code he wrote to give Erlang the same sort of inflection characteristics (mouse vs mice) as Ruby. Check out the details and example here.

Something I happened to see over here this weekend was Disco. It is a Map/Reduce framework written in Erlang. A user/implementer doesn’t need to know a lick of Erlang to get rolling but according to their site most folks use Python to write the actual jobs. If you as me a Map/Reduce framework built using Erlang makes a great amount of sense due to its message passing and light weight processes.

I went to go checkout google chrome today and it looks like the video got taken down. One would think this sorta thing wouldn’t happen to the parent company of youtube.