Innovative technologies at KhNURE:

Now security can watch amateur soccer instead of doing their actual duties.

Why is this monitor sitting out in plain view of everyone, and not in a special room under the eyes of a dedicated employee? Why are there only two cameras, not a couple dozen …

To live life wisely, there is much one needs to know; For starters, remember two important rules: Better to go hungry than eat just anything, And better to be alone than together with just anyone.

(Translator: O. Rumer)

Turns out Sasha Adamov started himself a little blog while I was traveling around.

http://ad-lex.livejournal.com/

He’s got a solid camera. Takes good pictures.

09/25/2010—09/26/2010

Yevpatoria is a resort town. You’re supposed to go there to relax by the sea. You can go for a long time, or you can go for a weekend. So this time the group suggested going for the weekend. As always, someone turned …

13-day trip along the route Kharkiv-Kyiv-Katowice-Beauvais-Paris-Grenoble-Paris-Beauvais-Katowice-Krakow-Warsaw-Katowice-Auschwitz-Katowice-Bielsko-Biała-Szczyrk-Bielsko-Biała-Katowice-Kyiv-Kharkiv has successfully wrapped up. The memorable places have been seen, the postcards have been sent, the Olympic ski slopes have been tested out.

Photo, video, and letter reports will be created and published later.

In the last few days before departure I managed to …

I recently finished reading Jiří Toman’s book “The Art of Speaking.” As the title makes clear, this book is about how to speak beautifully and competently. Communication is a very important skill. You need to communicate a lot and often: with family, with friends, with colleagues at work; some …

The other day I saw a link to an amusing Flash thing: http://megaswf.com/serve/102223/ It gives a clear demonstration of the essence of genetic (evolutionary) algorithms.

The idea is simple. You need to make a bicycle so it travels as far as possible. The computer knows nothing …

Yesterday Wikipedia—the No. 1 site with free term papers on all knowledge—turned 10. It was decided to mark the date with the whole Kharkiv community of Wikipedia contributors.

The meetup began with a visit to the Kharkiv Art Museum. The exhibition of photographs by Alexey Ivanitsky (1854–1920 …

This year the whole world is marking the 50th anniversary of the first human flight into space. On April 12, 1961, Soviet citizen Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin made a flight into space aboard the Vostok-1 spacecraft—he orbited the Earth in 108 minutes.

A long time ago, I found one very …

And in Kharkiv it’s a typical New Cat. Our New Cat is so stingy you couldn’t even beg snow out of him in winter.

Thank you, New Cat, that at least the temperature is below zero, and not like the previous times — slush and puddles.