czwartek, lipiec 12, 2007

Navrozov moment

Unqualified Reservations: My Navrozov moments: "A Navrozov moment is a moment when you realize that the university, which was established as a refuge whose purpose was to pursue truth without regard for the opinions of the world, has become a power center whose purpose is to impose its own opinions on the world. As such it has no more use for independent thought than a dog has for beets."

wtorek, maj 22, 2007

BOTfest


I guess the poll worked.

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wtorek, listopad 28, 2006

The Right Risk-Taking - CRN

The Right Risk-Taking - CRN

If you believe you're the smartest person in the room, Kay said during his acceptance speech, go find a place where that isn't true.

niedziela, wrzesień 24, 2006

last major rewiring of our brains

"Those of us who are parents tend to try to discourage our kids from getting married too young, because we know how much people change around their twentieth year. Around the age of 19 or 20 is when we start that last major rewiring of our brains to become adults. "

from The State of the Onion 10

piątek, wrzesień 22, 2006

Scheming is Believing


"The point I was trying to make in this section is that all languages have a natural system-size limit, beyond which your innovation starts to slow down dramatically. It happens regardless of how well you've engineered your system, and regardless of whether your team is one person or a thousand. Overall productivity never goes to zero, but that's moot; the point is that you started out strong and now you're weak."

środa, sierpień 23, 2006

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.:

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

wtorek, sierpień 15, 2006

BBC NEWS | Health | Security 'bad news for sex drive'

BBC NEWS | Security 'bad news for sex drive':

"Dr Dietrich Klusmann, lead author of the study and a psychologist from Hamburg-Eppendorf University, believed the differences were down to human evolution.

He said: 'For men, a good reason their sexual motivation to remain constant would be to guard against being cuckolded by another male.'

But women, he said, have evolved to have a high sex drive when they are initially in a relationship in order to form a 'pair bond' with their partner.

But, once this bond is sealed a woman's sexual appetite declines, he added."

no longer von Neumann machines

Dr. Dobb's | It's (Not) All Been Done: "Just think: For the first time in the history of computing, mainstream computers will no longer be von Neumann machines—they will be parallel. Given that our applications are going to run on parallel machines, this is a time of enormous opportunity, along with a great deal of work. Sure, concurrency has been done before; parallel computing was researched by some of the very people already mentioned (see Hoare's seminal paper on 'Communicating Sequential Processes'), and companies like Cray have been doing it for years. But the mainstream programmer and mainstream environments have most certainly not been doing it routinely, and we have only now just begun the process of bringing concurrency and parallel programming to the mainstream."