Below is the answer given to the question “What are some of your life heuristics?”. They belong to ACM Fellow and A.M. Turing Award recipient Edward A. Feigenbaum, a pioneer in the field of expert systems. This excerpt is from this interview.
* Pay a lot of attention to empirical data, because in empirical data one can discover regularities about the world.
* Meet a wonderful collaborator — for me it was Joshua Lederberg — and work with that collaborator on meaningful problems
* It takes a while to become really, really good at something. Stick with it. Focus. Persistence, not just on problems but on a whole research track, is really worth it. Switching in the middle, flitting around from problem to problem, isn’t such a great idea.
* Life includes of a lot of stuff you have to do that isn’t all that much fun, but you just have to do it.
* You have to have a global vision of where you’re going and what you’re doing, so that life doesn’t appear to be just Brownian motion where you are being bumped around from one little thing to another thing.
Manneken Pis by Ludovic Hirlimann, on Flickr
(Automatic English translation. Otomatik Türkçe çeviri.)
Mijn uitdaging vandaag is bloggen in het Nederlands om een verjaardag te vieren. Vandaag precies één jaar geleden, ben ik naar België gekomen om met mijn vrouw samen te wonen. In het begin maakte ik me zorgen over wonen in Antwerpen omdat ik wist dat de stad kleiner dan Istanbul is. Ik las dat er alleen 500.000 mensen in Antwerpen zijn, en vergeleken met Istanbul waarin bijna 10.000.000 mensen wonen, klinkt dit zo weinig. Maar nu voel ik me beter omdat ik gezien heb dat er veel faciliteiten in Antwerpen zijn; bijvoorbeeld alleen één maand nadat ik kwam, ben ik naar Middelheim jazz festival geweest. Ik maakte me ook zorgen over om een job te vinden en het Nederlands te leren. Een nieuw leven beginnen is niet zo gemakkelijk als je ouder dan 30 bent. Ik vind het leuk dat ik nu aan de universiteit als een software ontwikkelaar werk. Ik ben ook blij dat ik nu beter Nederlands kan spreken.
Ik beloof mezelf en de mensen die op me vertrouwen dat ik op de tweede verjaardag een langer en een beter artikel in het Nederlands ga schrijven.
Eindelijk zijn hier een paar cijfers: Ik heb dit artikel in ongeveer 25 minuten zonder woordenboek geschreven. Er waren negen foutjes; zeven van deze waren spellingsfouten en twee grammaticale fouten.
Tot volgende keer.
Sick of the vuvuzela? Me too. If you’re watching the game on your computer like I am, just download and run this program to filter your live World Cup broadcast in real-time (ESPN3, BBC, etc), choosing which level of de-vuvuzela’ing filtering you find most suitable. No installation required, just download and run!
Developed by Jeff Bargmann of Stardock in collaboration with the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London.
If you want to learn more about the science behind this software:
- http://isophonics.net/content/whats-all-about-vuvuzela
- http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19041-what-makes-the-sound-of-vuvuzelas-so-annoying.html
Kaynak: http://www.birgun.net/edus_index.php?news_code=1275812260&year=2010&month=06&day=06
Türkiye’nin en önemli matematikçilerinden, gençler için Matematik Köyü’nün kurucusu, Prof. Dr. Ali Nesin, Matematik Köyü kapsamında liseliler için hazırlanan bir projeyi TÜBİTAK’a sunar. TÜBİTAK’ın projeye, Matematik Köyü’ne ve bizzat Ali Nesin’e yaklaşımı ise Aziz Nesin’in hikayelerini aratmaz.
Ali Nesin’in başına gelenleri, TÜBİTAK Başkanı Nüket Yetiş’e yazdığı 5 Haziran tarihli mektubundan aktarıyoruz:
İstanbul, 5 Haziran 2010
Sayın Prof. Dr. Nüket Yetiş,
Sorumlusu olduğunuz TÜBİTAK?tan şikayetçiyim. Sadece ben değil, matematikçi ya da değil, tanıdığım herkes şikayetçi. Ben kendi dertlerimi size anlatmak istiyorum. Eğer isterseniz diğerlerinin dertlerini kendilerine sorup dinlersiniz. Kime ne soracağınızı bildiğinizi sanıyorum.
Ne zamandan beri yazmak istediğim bir anımla başlamak istiyorum mektubuma.
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Statement by Dr. Yaman Akdeniz, Associate Professor, Human Rights Law Research Center, Faculty of Law, Istanbul Bilgi University, and Director of Cyber-Rights.Org. (lawya@cyber-rights.org):
The situation in terms of Internet censorship has moved from BAD to WORSE in Turkey as the Telecommunications Communication Presidency (TIB) asked the Turkish Internet Service Providers to block access to certain IP addresses associated with YouTube. As it is well know access to YouTube has been blocked from Turkey since May 2008, and DNS-poisoning method has been used until very recently. However, as of yesterday TIB asked the Turkish ISPs to block access to certain IP addresses associated with YouTube. The ISPs then started warning their users that as a result of the most recent IP blocking certain Google services may also be affected.
Since last night a considerable number of Google related services have been affected from Turkey. These are:
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