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Navrozov moment

2007-07-12T14:23:00.000+02:00

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."

BOTfest

2007-05-22T12:44:00.000+02:00

I guess the poll worked.

The Right Risk-Taking - CRN

2006-11-28T16:12:00.000+01:00

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.

last major rewiring of our brains

2006-09-24T12:43:00.000+02:00

"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

Scheming is Believing

2006-09-22T17:17:00.000+02:00

"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."

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

2006-08-23T12:05:00.000+02:00

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."

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

2006-08-15T13:07:00.000+02:00

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

2006-08-15T12:58:00.000+02:00

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."

2005-03-17T09:59:00.000+01:00

Not impressed with Google Suggest.

2005-01-30T19:14:00.000+01:00

Thinking Machine 4 (Chess)

2005-01-30T04:22:00.000+01:00

The Children of Iraq

2004-10-07T16:37:00.000+02:00

Article.

2004-09-22T22:04:00.000+02:00

Giant Isopod

2004-08-06T12:08:00.000+02:00

Great story about literary critisism: "How To Deconstruct Almost Anything"

Step 5 -- Derive another reading of the text, one in which it is interpreted as referring to itself. In particular, find a way to read it as a statement which contradicts or undermines either the original reading or the ordering of the hierarchical opposition (which amounts to the same thing). This is really the tricky part and is the key to the whole exercise. Pulling this off successfully may require a variety of techniques, though you get more style points for some techniques than for others. Fortunately, you have a wide range of intellectual tools at your disposal, which the rules allow you to use in literary criticism even though they would be frowned upon in engineering or the sciences. These include appeals to authority (you can even cite obscure authorities that nobody has heard of), reasoning from etymology, reasoning from puns, and a variety of other word games. You are allowed to use the word "problematic" as a noun. You are also allowed to pretend that the works of Freud present a correct model of human psychology and the works of Marx present a correct model of sociology and economics (it's not clear to me whether practitioners in the field actually believe Freud and Marx or if it's just a convention of the genre).

2004-07-18T11:45:00.000+02:00

Black's move...

2004-06-11T14:32:00.000+02:00

My sweatshirt is better than yours!

2004-05-20T18:32:00.000+02:00

Teraz testuję BloGTK, aplikację dla środowiska Gnome, która pozwala wysyłać notki do Bloggera. Zobaczmy jak działa obsługa polskich znaków:

Zażółć gęślą jaźń.

Marta w kuchni

2004-05-12T11:59:00.000+02:00

marta_w_kuchni
Originally uploaded by fyuryu.

W niedziele zastalem sasiadke w mojej kuchni.

2004-05-12T11:08:00.000+02:00

Yesterday I discovered Hello, a pretty neat P2P app for sharing pictures. It lets you post stuff to Blogger powered blogs. It may sound pretty lame, to adverise Blogger on Blogger but this is really good stuff. Check it out.

Screenshot of Hello

Test

2004-05-12T00:27:00.000+02:00

Obraz 014
Originally uploaded by fyuryu.

Ten wpis, dla odmiany, dodałem używając Flickra, innej aplikacji do dzielenia się zdjęciami przez sieć. Flickr ma kilka plusów, które trudno zignorować: . o ile Hello działa tylko pod Windows, Flickr zrobiony został we Flashu i zadziała na każdym komputerze, na którym jest przeglądarka WWW (program działa w oknie przeglądarki: wynika z tego dodatkowa zaleta - nie trzeba nic instalować). Jeśli umieszczę zdjęcie we Flickr, zostaje ono automatycznie dodane do specjalnego albumu (generowanego automatycznie, nie muszę się o nic martwić) i można je adnotować - (zobacz sam). Mogę nawet określic kto może zobaczyć dane zdjęcie, a kto nie

2004-05-11T23:32:00.000+02:00

Mały globusik

2004-05-11T23:15:00.000+02:00

Geisza

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Hello (more on that later).

2004-05-11T23:09:00.000+02:00

Do - Droga