Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 29

Summer is cool in Mexico City. It is cool because, unlike Spring, this is our rainy season — And rains are very predictable. Almost every day we wake up with a gorgeous, clean, blue sky. Cool, nice temperature, around 15°C. The sun slowly evaporates the rain throughout the morning; when I go out for lunch, the sky is no longer so blue, giving way to a seemingly dirty white/grayish tint. No, it’s not our world-famous pollution: It’s just yesterday’s rain. Rain starts falling usually between 4 and 7 PM. Sometimes it starts as a light rain, sometimes it starts with...

Yes, I’ve been bragging about the Operating Systems book all over… Today, a colleague handed me a phone call from somebody at Editorial Patria, a well known educational editorial in Mexico. They are looking for material similar to what I wrote, but need the material to be enfocado a competencias — Focused on skills, a pedagogic fashion. I was more than interested, of course. As it currently stands, I am very happy that our book is being used already at three universities in three countries (by the different authors) and have heard other people saying they would recommend it, and...

Yay! Today I finally submitted our book, Fundamentos de Sistemas Operativos, for the Editorial Department of our institute. Of course, I’m not naïve enough to assume there won’t be a heavy editorial phase, but I’m more than eager to dive into it… And have the book printed in maybe two months time! Of course, this book is to be published under a free license (CC-BY-SA). And I’m talking with the coauthors, we are about to push the Git repository to a public location, as we believe the source for the text and figures can also be of interest to others....

A long time ago, I did some (quite minor!) work on natural language parsing. Most of what I got was the very basic rudiments on what needs to be done to begin with. But I like reading some texts on the subject every now and then. I am also a member of the ACM — Association for Computing Machinery. Most of you will be familiar with it, it’s one of the main scholarly associations for the field of computing. One of the basic perks of being an ACM member is the subscription to a very nice magazine, Communications of the...

From Bajada Grande, Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina

From Puerto Nuevo, Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina

From Bajada Grande, Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina

From Bajada Grande, Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina

I stared at Noodles’ Emptiness, where I found a short rant on the currently most used forms of communication. No, into the most socially-useful forms of communication. No, into what works best for him. And, as each person’s experience is unique, I won’t try to correct him — Noodles knows himself much, much, much, much better than I do. But some people have wondered recently (i.e. at conferences I have been at) why I give such an atypical use to social networks (…a term which I still hold to be grossly misused, but that’s a topic for a different rant…One...