I'm growing very fond of these Plasma Cosmology folks. What else could make practically anything said by any quotable astrophysicist sound stupidly occultist? "Dark Matter" ... "Dark Energy" ... "billion-solar-mass black hole" ... "magnetic field reconnection" ... "blazar 'gas' jet". Why are they astonished at every new detail revealed by observations? When the JPL guys noticed the "volcanoes" on Jupiter's moon Io were drifting around the planetoid surface like rubber duckies in the bath, did they send out a press release? Aren't their theories supposed to predict something, sometime? What exactly are we paying those people for?

rmathew: Don't bother with LISP. If you've already coded ML, you know everything you need to know; but they don't.