The idea of a data driven lifestyle has really started gaining ground lately. It seems every month at least one such application comes out. Some call it gamification of the world around you, some just want to help you lead a better lifestyle. All have one thing in common: Collecting reams upon reams of data… Read more »
Posts Categorized: I learned two things today
Mac OS X Lion and Wi-Fi
Upon getting back from the US in late August I noticed that my laptop suddenly doesn’t want to connect to my home wireless network. At the time I didn’t really give it much thought because everything else from the iPad to the iPhone to all the other laptops at home connected just fine and since… Read more »
Seems I am in love with learning
Today I fell on my arse. Hard. And I have the scrapes and possible bruises to prove it! Apparently going uphill on a longboard is a lot harder than it looks when you’ve been riding one a cumulative of … three or four hours. Somehow my trajectory changed from being perpendicular to the hill or… Read more »
A longboard and a school system
Coming back from the US I was left completely without means of transport. My rollerblades‘ last allowed wheel died over there so I was left with a cumulative three working wheels for the whole set. You need at least four. Right before I left for the US my driver’s licence expired and I need to… Read more »
KVM and the great outdoors
For the past few days I’ve been working on a paper about virtualization and linux. Today I finally came to the good meaty parts that are beyond just describing what virtualization is and what different kinds we know and I was deeply impressed with the magic that linux supports. KVM is something you should really… Read more »
The quickreading
Today I learned that quickreading scientific text isn’t all that quick at all. I have a theoretical exam on information theory on Tuesday and to start off the studying I wanted to read Shannon’s original paper on the topic, all 55 pages of it. Seeming as how quickreading is a little bit like opening a… Read more »
I learned two things today 9.9.
Today I learned an important lesson about energy levels. Apparently I have gotten too old to withstand a week of focused studying and then having the energy to go out on Friday. Seriously, my body and mind just don’t want to do it. Or maybe I’m just a nerd and the whole friday night thing… Read more »
I learned four things today 8.9.
Because I was learning … well rather studying … a bunch of silly stuff yesterday I have decided to write about the four things I learned today. Some of these might technically have happened yesterday, but who cares. 1. I learned that my old sleep tactic for studying all night has been sucky. I used… Read more »
I learned two things today 5.8.
Today I learned that an abundance of studying can be damaging to the brain and general well-being of a person. You can tell something is wrong when at some point you find yourself trying to calculate the expected value of a random variable defined as {2,2,2,2,2,2,2} using the long form. And you even use so… Read more »
I learned two things today 4.8.
Today I learned that the next time I think “I should write this down for later” I will fucking write it down. Because today I learned something awesome, and I was like “Oh this will be perfect for the evening blog! I should write it down”. My very next thought was that it’s too awesome… Read more »