My reading habits are lumpy. I find I'm either not reading anything, or I'm reading seven books at once, and when I am, I wish I could speed read. I have in the past read books on speed reading, and t
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Posted by Andre Vellino in Artificial Intelligence , Logic , Logic Programming . trackback Maarten van Emden just posted a terrific and authoritative account of one episode in the history of Prolog un
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