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Introduction: Marty McKee at Wolfram Research appears to have a very very stupid colleague. McKee wrote to Christian Robert: Your article, “Evidence and Evolution: A review”, caught the attention of one of my colleagues, who thought that it could be developed into an interesting Demonstration to add to the Wolfram Demonstrations Project. As Christian points out, adapting his book review into a computer demonstration would be quite a feat! I wonder what McKee’s colleague could be thinking? I recommend that Wolfram fire McKee’s colleague immediately: what an idiot! P.S. I’m not actually sure that McKee was the author of this email; I’m guessing this was the case because this other very similar email was written under his name. P.P.S. To head off the inevitable comments: Yes, yes, I know this is no big deal and I shouldn’t get bent out of shape about it. But . . . Wolfram Research has contributed such great things to the world, that I hate to think of them wasting any money paying
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1 Marty McKee at Wolfram Research appears to have a very very stupid colleague. [sent-1, score-0.204]
2 McKee wrote to Christian Robert: Your article, “Evidence and Evolution: A review”, caught the attention of one of my colleagues, who thought that it could be developed into an interesting Demonstration to add to the Wolfram Demonstrations Project. [sent-2, score-0.237]
3 As Christian points out, adapting his book review into a computer demonstration would be quite a feat! [sent-3, score-0.576]
4 I wonder what McKee’s colleague could be thinking? [sent-4, score-0.235]
5 I recommend that Wolfram fire McKee’s colleague immediately: what an idiot! [sent-5, score-0.444]
6 I’m not actually sure that McKee was the author of this email; I’m guessing this was the case because this other very similar email was written under his name. [sent-8, score-0.208]
7 To head off the inevitable comments: Yes, yes, I know this is no big deal and I shouldn’t get bent out of shape about it. [sent-12, score-0.381]
8 Wolfram Research has contributed such great things to the world, that I hate to think of them wasting any money paying the salary of Marty McKee’s colleague, somebody who’s so stupid that he or she thinks that a book review can be developed into an interactive computer demonstration. [sent-16, score-1.183]
9 I’d like to feel that I’m doing my part by alerting them so they can fire this incompetent colleague person. [sent-17, score-0.603]
10 Hey, this new Zombies category is really coming in handy! [sent-22, score-0.065]
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