Every now and then various corporations publish shorts about the future: “What will things be like with information technology after the 2012 presidential election in the Russian Federation?” The latest film is published by Microsoft.
Productivity Future Vision (2011)
A few weeks after watching it, I came across the musings …
On my way to work in the morning, my eye caught on a book stall. I was disappointed to find it had nothing but fiction. But today the seller got lucky: I noticed a book by Anton Semyonovich Makarenko titled “Pedagogical Poem.” Anton Makarenko is our countryman, an outstanding educator …
I finished reading Jiří Toman’s book “How to Improve Yourself.” The book was published in 1980 in Prague, and in 1988 it was translated into Ukrainian and published in Kyiv by the publishing house for political literature.
The book covers questions such as:
What would you like to achieve …
There’s an opinion that all processes in life happen in cycles. Here things are going badly for us. Then something gets a little better, then everything is absolutely wonderful. We’re at the top. At this point we realize that happiness can’t last forever, and the next downturn …
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 …
Many of us write various kinds of documentation in English. That includes presentations, user guides, help files, and just plain blog posts. I’m the same way. We teach people with screencasts, where you have to explain what’s happening on the screen. The scripts contain a lot of descriptions …
“If I have seen further than others, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants” Isaac Newton
After the research topic for an article (see “On Choosing a Topic for a Research Paper”) or for a term paper, thesis, or dissertation has been defined, you need to work …
Let’s talk about Kharkiv news. But not about events in our glorious city—about Internet news services. Since I rarely get to watch TV the window into Hell, I subscribed to several online news feeds. Let’s go through each of them.
Media Group “Objective” The quality of the …
Hey, you! Yes, I’m talking to you! Do you even watch where you’re stepping? What did you just step on?
A manhole cover. An ordinary sewer manhole cover. And how many kinds of manhole covers can you name? Two? Three?
Today a colleague from Wikipedia tossed me a …