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01/05/06

Permalink 10:49:51 pm, by Bruno Email , 113 words, 3220 views   English (US)
Categories: Mathematics, Technology, Art, Entertainment, Popular culture, Applied sciences, Information science

Today's podcast: Computational Origami

Robert Lang

Origami Artist and Theorist

The last decade of the twentieth century saw a revolution in the development and application of mathematical techniques to origami. Robert J. Lang describes how geometric concepts have led to the computer solution of a broad class of origami folding challenges and, as a consequence, enabled origami designs of astonishing complexity and realism to be developed.

As often happens in mathematics, a theory originally developed for its own aesthetic value has led to some surprising practical applications. In addition, it has shed light on long-standing mathematical questions and solved practical engineering problems. Lang gives examples of how origami has enabled safer airbags, Brobdingnagian space telescopes, and more.

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01/02/06

Permalink 05:09:18 pm, by Bruno Email , 10 words, 10575 views   English (US)
Categories: Geography, Entertainment, Tourism, Communication, Internet

A9 maps

Impressive what intelligent people can do with money and motivation.

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12/29/05

Permalink 16:56:53, by Bruno Email , 32 words, 1457 views   Spanish (MX)
Categories: Languages, Government

Error en el título de la transcripción del discurso de toma de posesión del comisionado del Instituto Nacional de Migración

Me parece que sería de muy, muy buen gusto escribir correctamente el nombre del comisionado en el título de la transcripción de su discurso de toma de posesión.

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12/20/05

Permalink 11:37:00, by Bruno Email , 22 words, 2141 views   Spanish (MX)
Categories: Announcements, Culture, Family

El blog de Mabela

¡Mabela ya recuperó sus datos de usuario y contraseña para escribir en su «blog»! Espero ver muchos «posts» suyos muy pronto.

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12/16/05

Permalink 06:33:58 pm, by Bruno Email , 224 words, 1745 views   English (US)
Categories: Philosophy, Psychology, Technology, Education, Anthropology, Applied sciences, Biology, Information science, Communication

Today's podcast: Supernova 2005 (John Clippinger)

On the last day of Supernova 2005, John Clippinger, Senior Fellow of The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, spoke about his work at Socialphysics.org. According to the website, "The goal of SocialPhysics is to help create a new commons, the 'social web.' The social web is a layer built on top of the Internet to provide a trusted way to link people, organizations, and concepts."

John approaches Social Physics from a multidisciplinary perspective drawing from theories of economics, philosophy, neurology and behavioral science. John discusses the role of trust in developing a social network. He suggests that centralized, authoritarian systems in networks are antithetical to non-hierarchical empathetic interaction on the Internet. Today, he says, individuals do not have the power to control their digital identity and what is needed are new roles to protect and empower those individuals on the edge, rather than at the center of networks. He suggests that by using systems of tagging (as a form of reputation) and empathy, people in networks are better able to meet those goals.

John says that markets are social networks; using tools like his open source software framework, Higgins, he and others are experimenting and creating new avenues for meta identity on the Internet.

I'm sure Sebastian and Juan will find (or have found) this podcast very thought provoking.

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12/14/05

Permalink 02:37:26 pm, by Bruno Email , 96 words, 809 views   English (US)
Categories: Computing, Religion, Entertainment, Information science

Switch to KDE

Perhaps I would have used a slightly softer set of terms, but I think Linus is basically right when expressing his position on the matter:

I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.

This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.

Please, just tell people to use KDE.

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12/07/05

Permalink 10:26:30 am, by Bruno Email , 75 words, 1304 views   English (US)
Categories: Languages, Information science, Communication, Internet

The word of the year

Guess what is the Word of the Year, according to the New Oxford American Dictionary?

Podcast!

Among the words that did not make it were two other terms popular in tech circles.

One was lifehack, which refers to a more efficient way of completing a everyday task.

The other was rootkit, defined as software installed on a computer by someone other than the owner, intended to conceal other programs or processes, files or system data.

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12/05/05

Permalink 01:14:40 pm, by Bruno Email , 59 words, 541 views   English (US)
Categories: Religion

Otra del cardenal

En otro arranque de genialidad, el cardenal Norberto Rivera Carrera, arzobispo primado de la ciudad de México, dijo a los voceadores (hablando de la libertad de expresión y del derecho a conocer la verdad):

eso es lo que nos libera como seres humanos; es decir, nos hace libres

Ya no tengo palabras para alabar su imponente inteligencia.

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Permalink 13:01:54, by Bruno Email , 172 words, 578 views   Spanish (MX)
Categories: Religion

Y sigue la mata dando (con los padrecitos)

Rivera descartó que con la publicación del documento del Vaticano al respecto, la jerarquía católica critique la homosexualidad. Claro, la homosexualidad puede «contradecir absolutamente la antropología humana», pero eso no significa que la iglesia la critique, ¿verdad?

Dice el genial cardenal Norberto Rivera Carrera que la prohibición de homosexuales a las filas de la iglesia católica no es una discriminación:

es simplemente decir cuáles son las normas para entrar

Creo que tengo que ir corriendo por un diccionario...

Bien, aquí está. La Real Academia Española de la Lengua (en línea) dice:

discriminar.
(Del lat. discrimināre).
1. tr. Seleccionar excluyendo.
2. tr. Dar trato de inferioridad a una persona o colectividad por motivos raciales, religiosos, políticos, etc.

O el señor cardenal se da una vueltecita por el diccionario, o construye mejor sus geniales ideas antes de abrir la boquita, o está más cerca de su dios de lo que yo creía y los criterios y juicios humanos le vienen guangos.

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11/30/05

Permalink 16:18:24, by Bruno Email , 136 words, 523 views   Spanish (MX)
Categories: Psychology, Religion, Sexology, War

Los geniales padrecitos

Dice Zenon Grocholewski, un padrecito del Vaticano, que los homosexuales no son bienvenidos en la iglesia católica:

porque [la homosexualidad] contradice "absolutamente la antropología humana" (sic).

Me impresiona su sabiduría milenaria.

  • Seguramente los homosexuales son una aberración reciente, en la historia de la humanidad (la humana, por supuesto).
  • Seguramente los homosexuales son menos humanos que los demás humanos (los que estudia la antropología humana, vamos), especialmente menos humanos que los sacerdotes que se prohíben (al menos en teoría) ejercer su sexualidad (y que cuando la ejercen lo hacen sobre niños).
  • Seguramente las mujeres también contradicen la antropología de los hombres, y por eso no las dejan ejercer el sacerdocio. Habrá que crear una antropología «sólo para mujeres» que les abra un espacio.

Oremus.

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    When Alberto Herrera started his own tech company in Tijuana two years ago, he was confident he had the knowledge to take on the risk.

    His team had worked at Panasonic's office in the Mexican border city and had the technical expertise to craft a new kind of wireless sensor network -- one that can be used for hotel room key cards and turn on the heating system once a customer has entered his or her room.

    But Herrera didn't have contacts with venture capitalists and didn't know how to spiff up a business plan.

    That changed last year, once his company, Medida, started working with the Mexico-Silicon Valley Technology Business Accelerator (TechBA for short) in San Jose, funded by an annual $6 million grant from the Mexican government.

    TechBA assigned a special adviser to Medida, to mentor it in Silicon Valley's arcane ways.

    The help is part of an effort by the Mexican government to jump-start its technology economy -- in part through better connections to leading tech centers like Silicon Valley and their entrepreneurial cultures and practices.

    Mexico's domestic information technology and software market totals more than $3 billion a year and has 2,095 companies, according to its economics ministry.

    Mexico exports about $400 million in technology services each year to the United States, about half in business process outsourcing, half in software outsourcing. But Mexico wants to do more than supply its northern neighbor with a cheap source of labor, says Jorge Zavala, chief executive of TechBA. ``The question is, how do we switch from low value-added services and move into information technology?''

    The goal of TechBA, he said, is to help create Mexican companies that own their own technology, and to export $5 billion in technology and other services by 2012.

    In Herrara's case, TechBA appointed a mentor -- Adolpho Nemirosky, an Argentine entrepreneur who has worked in the valley's semiconductor and telecom industries for 13 years. He had co-founded a venture-backed company, Xtreme Logic, and was eager to help others. He is paid a stipend by TechBA.

    His help has already gone a long way. Nemirosky taught Herrera how to make an elevator pitch -- that is, a two- to five-minute synopsis of his company, tailored for impatient investors. He advised him to focus on specific areas, such as sensor systems for hotels and for entertainment software. And he took Herrera to meet with some professors at the University of California-Berkeley, where Herrera was able to secure a technology adviser.

    To top it off, Nemirosky groomed Herrera to present to venture capitalists Tuesday evening at an event hosted by TechBA and an angel group called Silicom Ventures. Besides the investors, a live audience of more than 200 people looked on. And Herrara performed well enough that three of four venture capitalists invited him to talk with them further. ``I'm very pleased with him,'' Nemirosky said of his protege.

    Currently, 40 companies participate in the TechBA program, and the group recently announced its first tangible success: Mexican company JackBe. The company, which has created Web sites for Sears and Citigroup's Mexico operations, raised $6.5 million in venture capital funding in November -- the first Mexican tech company to raise venture capital from the United States, according to TechBA's Zavala.

    There are other signs of late that the U.S. venture capital market is waking to not only to Mexico, the world's ninth largest economy, but also to the fast-growing Hispanic market in this country.

    Sausalito venture firm Sienna Ventures is now raising $100 million for its newest fund to focus on the Hispanic market.

    Herrera's company, Medida, meanwhile, is expanding in the United States. It has $1 million in revenue after a year's work, 10 employees and an office in San Jose, where employees can drop in from Tijuana. Silicon Valley is a good place to develop contacts for customers, said Herrera.

    ``We've gained visibility that would otherwise be very hard to get,'' he said.

    One of his customers is XaviX, which makes interactive sports games and also has offices in San Jose. Medida provides XaviX wireless sensors for its newest fly-fishing game -- where the sensor detects when game players flick their wrists and feeds information back to the game.

    Mexico is just the latest country trying to develop a network here in Silicon Valley.

    Gadi Behar, managing director of Israeli-focused Silicom Ventures, has reached out to groups from Canada, Argentina, Brazil, the Netherlands and Hawaii, offering help such as crash courses on Silicon Valley's business culture. ``They all want access to Silicon Valley,'' agreed Michelle Messina, a public relations professional who has also helped companies in these groups.
    Contact Matt Marshall at 408-920-5920 or via his blog at www.SiliconBeat.com

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    Few would dispute that we live in an age of information overload. In the last few years alone, blogs have increased the torrent of information each day to unmanageable levels.
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