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 »
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 »
Will I taste my own tomatoes these next weeks?
I’ve seen in the last few weeks some examples on using the word positions within the sentences… like my “your blog written by monkeys“. A way to experiment is just looking for a chuck of a sentence, a “meaning” block, that puts in relation two concepts. For example encountering “is the new”, you can create… Read More »
Next week I’ll be 30! I have some ideas for my auto-gift… probably a new camera (a Panasonic FZ-50 or a Fuji S65000), or maybe a real go-board from Kuroki… By the way, if somebody wants to burn his money on me, I have a wish list at amazon.co.uk 😉
Imagine a big restaurant, with a lot of cooks. There are some bosses managing all the work: assigning the dishes to the individual cooks. So far, this seems quite correct. But imagine the bosses decide to start a individual plate with 3 cooks, who start to heat the frying pan, and then the bosses decide… Read More »