Towards A Computational Model of Poetry Generation is a paper by Manurung, Ritchie and Thompson (whomever they are) published in May 2000 and so far seems to be the best starting point for my graduation thesis. There are three main parts to this story: why!? what makes it hard how it used to be done [...]
Nice sunny Sunday here in Ljubljana yesterday. Around noon something particularly odd happened though. The week was over. I had finished everything I absolutely had to do, there was no more coursework, no more tasks for this week in pivotaltracker … nothing. 14 hours of pure unadulterated freedom. I felt drunk. I didn’t know how [...]
Sunday saw the eighth TEDxevent in Ljubljana and through immense luck I was able to attend despite forgetting to reserve a ticket. Twitter is kind of cool like that, you ask if there’s any way to sneak into a sold out event happening the next day, somebody says they don’t need their ticket and then [...]
Yesterday was Webcamp time again and the creme de la creme of the Slovenia web scene gathered to bang chests and feel awesome. Or … well … a bunch of geeks who had nothing better to do on a Saturday. There were a bunch of great talks by some marvelous people and I especially liked [...]
The drink/coffee meetings resulting from my post about coming to Palo Alto have started happening. It’s great fun meeting new people and getting a feel for the local community and entrepreneurial scene. Certainly a great place to be for meeting cool people and hackers. Invariably, though, the conversation comes up to a point where they [...]
Image via Wikipedia Now that it’s been a weekend since my return from the US and I’ve had plenty of time to get over the cold of epic proportions that hit me on the way to the airport (literally, I was buying and popping fever reducers at the airport before boarding) and I’ve had plenty [...]
Image via Wikipedia Yesterday another WebCamp took place in Ljubljana and it was the best *camp event I’ve ever been to. Congrats to all involved in making it happen, you guys rawk. For some strange reason though I seem to have done almost nothing but hang out in the hall and only caught little bits [...]
