Post #200, and time of changes. – I’m unemployed now. Eventually I finish my last day in my company. It was somehow a sad day, with lots of “goodbye”, “good luck”, and such… but all my coworkers collect some money and gave me a 200eur voucher for buying a camera! I’ve learned a lot during… Read More »
Finally, this year’s Spanish Open is coming. Next weekend, more than 60 people from the whole Europe will play Go in the University of Alicante. I’m really excited… eager for hitting the first stone on the board. This event is special for me. It’s the first tournament held in my homeland, and in the University… Read More »
Thinking further about the subject of the previous post, I can claim that almost all tech companies produce things for the top richest population of the world (I mean, including the 3rd world). Look at Microsoft and their Vista O.S, that can only run in a really expensive machine (expensive even for the Western standards).… Read More »
Some time ago I was wondering how we would help the past civilizations if we had a time machine, and could travel to the past to help them. It’s just fantasy, but I daydreamed some ideas… Imagine revealing gunpowder to the Greeks. Or showing a way to create and store electricity to the Roman Empire.… Read More »
Somebody sent me a link to an article about Computer Go, appeared in the “IEEE Spectrum” magazine. It’s quite unbelievable that the author (who was involved in the Deep Blue development) wrote this overall article about the subject, mostly focusing the solution in brute-force… “Brute-force computation has eclipsed humans in chess, and it could soon… Read More »
The first time I heard about a “28 hour day“, I thought it was just a joke. The thing is that I didn’t realize the fact: 28hours x 6days = 24hours x 7days… until I saw this morning this comic at xkcd.com. The basic idea is to be awake 20 hours, and then sleep 8… Read More »
“By order of the goverment all carts that move on this street should exactly follow the direction that is showed in the drawn cart, otherwise they will be fined with 3 pounds” – From the Museum of Pottery in Barcelona. Did anybody stop and read the whole text in those times?
I’m not an easy romantic. Moreover, I don’t follow gadget’s presentations actively. But this morning I’ve fell in mad love with this beautiful piece of technology, the Yamaha Tenori-on. I want one, buahhh!!
The title should’ve been something like “why do people dislike to speak about their salaries?“, but Jakob Nielsen (a usability leader, but sometimes too radical) suggested to use numbers in the titles. The people avoid showing their pays to others because they are scared of being compared. It’s a quite silly idea, to use the… Read More »
You know when you’ve passed to a new level on do-it-yourself… it’s when you feel able to manage cement. You also know when you start becoming mad… it’s when you feel able to manage cement. Last weekend I committed the biggest DIY project I have ever done. For some weird reason we had parquet floor… Read More »