This week I returned to Couch Surfing. Hosted a couple of guests during the week and went hiking in an CS event in Cinque Terre. We did all five villages. So good, I was missing this... 3 months without doing CS was definitely too much. I used to use Hospitality Club but since I moved to Italy and couldn't change my profile's location I had to stop. I'm sorry to see the site dying slowly; lots of good friends there.
I've just finished the book The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness by António Damásio and I recommend it. Very, very good. For Portuguese speakers it's interesting to watch this.
From Gowers's Weblog:
If you have visited the Tricki recently, then you will already know that it has gone live. I’ve delayed posting about it until we were sure that everything was fully transferred: if you visit the prelive site you are now automatically redirected to the proper site, which you can also get to by clicking here. The URL is http://www.tricki.org.
A few small points to note here. In response to comments, we have introduced some new features. One is a feature for marking an article as a stub. Our working definition of a stub is that it should have no substantial mathematical content, and should not link forwards to any articles with substantial mathematical content. (That is, a parent of a non-stub is always a non-stub.) The thought behind this is that there are two directed graphs of interest: one with all articles, whether written or unwritten, and the other the set of all ancestors of articles with interesting content. The stub feature allows one to explore either of these trees with ease, because if an article is marked as a stub, then all links to that article are clearly marked as well, with a little leaf symbol.
This is great.
Following the idea of Kasparov vs. the World in 1999, it would be nice to organize a massive scale experiment of humans using different voting systems against computer programs playing chess. Anyone thought of this before?
Just bought my early bird ticket for Pycon Italy! The programme seems nice and there will be some social events like PyBirra and PyFiorentina. I not sure if I'm coming back everyday to Pisa or if I'll stay in Firenze... TBD.
You're reading my weblog. As it's being used with different intentions, this blog is trilingual. Posts about my life, travelling and other topics are mostly written in portuguese but ocasionaly also in english or italian. Research posts are written in english. Sorry for the mess, I'm trying to figure a way to automagically translate the content. Meanwhile, try to sort it out with the tags.
