Pascal’s triangle

Berkeley, Sunday, May 31, 2020 9:13 PM The genius of Pascal is that interesting that I continue discovering about him, not by reading about him, not for searching about his works for learning about him, but for learning about his applied works by applying them, and then learning that he either wrote or invented them. […]

Douglas Engelbart

Berkeley, Saturday, May 30, 2020 3:14 AM Reporting procrastination, which is not good, but I learned something interesting. Here for the records an interesting radio episode, by 99% invisible, about Douglas Engelbart, and his vision and intellectual thought of the usage of communication systems and computers. The episode name is “Of Mice And Men”. It […]

Math Museum

Berkeley, Saturday, May 29, 2020 00:11 AM There is this great thing of Professor Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web (www) invention that is the sharing of good information. I found this excellent page about a museum of math history, or rather about great contributors to math through history. Here is the link for my further […]

Tracking

Berkeley, Friday, May 29, 2020 9:00 PM The full display of tracing processes is not just calculating them. I am grateful with all the pioneers who have developed metrics.

Which one?

Berkeley, Friday, May 29, 2020 5:22 PM It [C]ms that C++ got an A+ as the next generation of his pioneers PASCAL, Fortran, and others, which are not BASIC languages (1). All seem somehow complicated. Now, we have [Python]s, ANACONDAs, Pandas, and who knows what else. It seems that JULIA is missing her [R]omeo. I […]

Loyalty

Berkeley, Tuesday, May 26, 2020 12:02 PM A quote that my father told me around 2009, which he learned from my grandma: Más vale un gramo de lealtad que un kilo de inteligencia. The translation is more or less as follows: One pound of loyalty worths more than a ton of intelligence. I do not […]