Korako's Blog

[ BG ] Ерата на малките терористи в България

2006-11-21T16:32:00.000+01:00

Попаднах на статия, която силно ме впечатли. Тя беше публикувана в http://www.actualno.com и може да бъде намерена на адрес

http://www.actualno.com/news_85004.html.

До каква степен имаме проблем с насилието сред децата? Всеки изминал месец попадам на новини за ученици, които влизат в училището си въоръжени и извършват някое кърваво "холивудско" деяние. Доскоро тези истории бяха само поредните новини от Щатите ("защото там всички са луди и презадоволени") или отскоро и от Германия ("защото там всички са толкова обучавани на ред и дисциплина и е нормално да изфирясат").

Е да де, ама очевидно този проблем идва и до нашата глава и вече стандартните обяснения от по-горе "не вървят". И този проблем не е на родителите, които слушат Планета или тези които не ходят по театри и изложби. Проблемът е на общество като цяло, проблемът е недостатъчната връзка между нашето поколение и нашите деца. Тези деца, които са принудени да растат в изолация от родителите си абдикирали отговорността си да възпитават и демонстрират основни ценности. Тези деца, които най-много биха искали поне веднъж в седмицата да имат вечеря заедно с мама и татко.

Не съм сигурен как да завърша това постче, не искам да отправям послания, но от друга страна ...има нещо гнило.

[ Interesting ] Evolution and Genetic Algorithms

2006-09-12T16:49:00.000+02:00

Evolution, baby!

Recently, I become interested in evolution and I kept thinking about the famous Darvin's theory. Does it really explain, how the chameleon evolved so that its tongue reaches twice the size of its body(!?) , how the necks of the giraffe evolved to be so long, how do some types of snakes grew larger teeth to contain more poison, how did the dolphins in the amazon evolved to use echolocation instead of sight and also use this echolocation signals to paralyze some type of fish and many other various examples from the animal kingdom that I cannot explain through evolution. For example, if the chameleon tongue grew little by little, in the beginning it was of no use to it and thus evolution should not have favored this mutation.

In the next few months, I intend to spend some time on researching the biological side of evolution. In the meantime, I looked over the computer science side of evolution. There is a nice set of algorithms that base their idea on evolution. These genetic algorithms aim at reaching a good solution to NP-hard optimization problems. Today, I read a few tutorials on the subject that I would like to share:

A basic tutorial with examples http://cs.felk.cvut.cz/~xobitko/ga/
More research oriented descriptions can be found at http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/genalg/genalg.html and http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/holland.GAIntro.htm
A very nice demonstration with various possibilities http://math.hws.edu/xJava/GA/
A c++ library for genetic algorithm components http://lancet.mit.edu/ga/ (i didn't look at how useful is it)

I hope this topic raises some comments... :)

[ Interesting ] Money destruction

2006-07-21T16:15:00.000+02:00

An interesting topic that I came upon these days is the money destruction. The main question is if you are allowed to demolish money or not. And if you destroy the money, can you use the remains for other purposes. The discussion arose since we heard on the news of some guys that gathered a lot of 1c and 2c coins, melted them and sold them for metal. They earned more than the value of the money, but they were sued for it. This arose the interesting question who owns the coins and the banknotes in my wallet and what am I allowed to do with them. As expected every single country has individual laws for it.

The basic thing is that in most of the countries the coins and the banknotes are property of the person and in this manner he is allowed to destroy them. However he is not allowed to destroy them with "fraudulent intent". Basically this means that you are allowed to burn banknotes for fun, but you are not allowed to melt them and cell them for money, but what if you melt them and cell them as a sculpture?! In some countries the coins and the banknotes have on them faces of monarchs and dictators and such are forbidden to be destroyed. More information for the American dollars can be found here: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=77334 . For other currencies...google it!

[ Fun ] Don't drink SO much

2006-06-21T17:21:00.000+02:00

[ Fun ] IQ test for blonds

2006-06-10T20:12:00.000+02:00

Actually for everyone...and remember, you need a result of at least 5/7 to clain that you are not blond.

http://www.gngnet.gr/stuff/blondes/

[ Fun ] A wild ceremony

2006-06-08T14:29:00.000+02:00

A young preacher is giving his first ceremony. Afterwards the old preature shares with him his "recommendations":

- Look, it was a good ceremony, but:

1. I told you to put a bit of vodka in the water, not the other way around

2. In that glass of water, you don't put neither ice, nor lemon

3. From that glass of water, you were supposed to take small sips, not dring it at once

4. You cannot wipe your mouth with your robe

5. The commendments are 10, not 12

6. The apostols are 12, not 10

7. You cannot use the bible as support for the glass

8. when you talk about the cross, you cannot say: the big "T" on top of the altar

9. Jesus and the apostols are not "The son and his gang"

10. Judas is not a "dirty bastard"

11. It's not nice to call the Pope the "Godfather"

12. Magdalene was a sinner, not a hore

13. The initiative to invite the public to applaude was good. but it was too much to invite them to dance Macarena, to make the "train" and invite sister Daniele to streap tease

14. The holy water is for blessing, not to cool your neck

15. the small box is for confessions, not the toilet

16. The holy bread is to be given without Nutella

17. The guy on the cross is Jesus, not Che Guevara

18. See that you always have underwear, and , when it's hot, avoid making air with your robe

19. The ceremony lasts for 1 hour, not 2 halves, 45 minutes each

[ FUN ] The internet is for ...

2006-05-20T15:12:00.000+02:00

The funniest song...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4446981554735098778&q=internet+porn

[ Fun BG ] http://kiro.blog.bg

2006-04-28T12:42:00.000+02:00

Тоя тип пише уникални глупости!!! :) Но особено забавна, и може би полезна, намерих тази кратка секцийка съвети за мъже изпаднали в тежката ситуация да се опитват да се отърват от гаджето си без да я "резнат" директно. http://kiro.blog.bg/viewpost.php?id=1944

смех батко

[ Fun ] Dockera Fan

2006-04-26T17:50:00.000+02:00

I just found a great Bulgarian site for pictures and jokes!!!

I should say these pictures are great and i especially like the "it is Friday" section!!!

Way to go, dockera!

[ FUN BG ] Как да разберете, че сте пиян? и още...

2006-04-26T17:31:00.000+02:00

1. Губите спор с неодушевен предмет.
2. Комарите летят на зиг-заг, след като са ви ухапали.
3. Мислите ,че 4-те основни хранителни групи са кофеин, никотин, алкохол и жени.
4. Трябва да се държите за моравата, за да не паднете от земята.
5. Работата ви пречи на пиенето.
6. Докторът намира остатъци от кръв в алкохолната ви система.
7. Тилът ви постоянно се удря в капака на тоалетната.
8. Според вас всяко денонощие има по 24 бири, а всяка каса – по 24 часа. Съвпадение? Едва ли…
9. Мислите си: 2 ръце и само една уста - това е проблем!
10. Фокусирате по–добре с едното око затворено.
11. Мястото ви за паркиране сякаш се е преместило докато сте били в бара.
12. Падате от пода…
13. Абе, 5 бири имат точно толкова калории, колкото един сандвич! Майната и на вечерята!
14. На събиране на дружеството на алкохолиците апочвате с: Здравейте, казвам се…ъъъ…
15. Идеите ви за намаляване на разходите се свеждат до по безсолна храна…
16. Хората непрекъснато ви питат имате ли нужда от помощ.
17. С всяка измината нощ намирате котката на съквартиранта си все по хубава…
18. Не разпознавате жена си, ако не я погледнете пред дъното на чаша.
19. Бирата ви се струва най-добрият разредител на водката…
20. Решавате, че сте се объркал и всъщност джинът е най-добрият разредител…
21. Радарът на пътния полицай на следващото кръстовище регистрира странната стойност от 3 промила(!)
22. Намирате за необяснимо как една камила може да работи по цяла седмица без да пие, след като вие владеете точно обратното.
23. В таксито има няколко апарата с фискална памет.
24. Търсите пристрастен пушач - давате 2 бели дроба за черен.
25. Чудите се как ще се напиете утре вечер, ако дотогава не сте изтрезнели…
26. НЕ СЕ ЧУДИТЕ как ще се напиете утре вечер, след като няма да изтрезнеете…

[ BG ] Американски сайт се гаври с националния химн

2006-04-25T23:08:00.000+02:00

Американски Интернет сайт, създаден от поддръжници на движението за защита на кравите (www.bovineunite.com/moo.htm), се гаври с националния химн на България, научи Агенция "Фокус".
Интернет сайтът, номиниран за престижните награди за уеб-дизайн The Webby Awards, представлява каламбур в защита на правата на кравите, като "запознаването" с основната идея е акомпанирано от химна на република България, с мучащи крави за фон, които го изпълняват. Създател на този "шедьовър" е компанията Ейснер Интерактиве - Eisner Interactive.
(допълнение от YVOX)
Собственик на сайта е:
Davis, William

904 Hammond Court
Bel Air, MD 21014
US

Domain Name: BOVINEUNITE.COM

Administrative Contact , Technical Contact :
Davis, William
williamadavis42@hotmail.com
904 Hammond Court
Bel Air, MD 21014
US
Phone: 410-661-9118
Желаещите да изразят мнението си приканваме на пратят мейл на посочения адрес, както и на организаторите на The Webby Awards на адрес jcollins@webbyawards.com

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Моята реакция вече е получена от двете лица цитирани горе,но приканвам повече българи да се включат с каквото могат за да разкажем играта на този нещастник, който е правил този скапан сайт ,мамка му!

[ Fun BG ] Теорема на бирената диета

2006-04-15T14:25:00.000+02:00

Както е известно, количеството енергия, необходимо за повишаването на температурата на 1 грам вода с 1 градус по Целзий е 1 калория.

Следователно, ако изпием литър бира с температура 4 градуса по Целзий, нашият организъм ще изразходи определено количество енергия, за да загрее бирата до нормалната си температура.

Това количество се определя като 1000 грама Х (37°С - 4°С) = 1000 Х 33 = 33 000 калории.

Ако отчетем, че енергетичната стойност на самия литър бира е около 10 000 калории, то получаваме 23 000 калории загуба на енергия, или чисто слабеене, което може да се приравни към 45 минутен бърз крос.

Студена бира или бягане - решавате вие!

< Взех го от тук >

[ Fun ] Pacman ,baby

2006-04-11T15:48:00.000+02:00

You need the <a href="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" target="_blank">Flash 5</a> plugin to play this game.

Use the arrow keys to move Pacman. P to pause, Q to quit, M to mute sound, L for image quality.

Made by Neave's Webgames

This is a tough game. Try to stay near the middle of the screen to stay alive longer.

[ Interesting ] Videos from Google

2006-04-11T12:21:00.000+02:00

A recent discovery, which I enjoy very much is the collection of video presentations,given in the Google head office and broadcasted to us (the rest of the world) by the means of Google Video here. I found a great interesting talk from Guido van Rossum about Python 2.5, which is a topic I happen to be very much interested in these days. I also enjoyed the presentation of Larry Page on the new tendencies of Internet and multiple tech talks. Overall impression : great!

[ Fun BG ] Теория за Бизона

2006-04-11T12:06:00.000+02:00

Теорията за Бизоните

Работата е в следното...Едно стадо бизони може да се движи най-много със скоростта на най-бавния бизон. Когато стадото е нападнато, най-бавните и слаби животни загиват първи. Тази природна слекция като цяло е добра за стадото, защото общата скорост и здраве на цялата група се подобрява от редовното убиване на най-слабите индвиди.

По подобен начин и човешкият мозък може да работи толкова бързо колкото работи най-бавната мозъчна клетка. Сега както на всички е известно алкохола (апнеата) убива мозъчни клетки, но естествено атакувани са първо най-бавните и слаби клетки. По този начин редовната консумация на алкохол (практикуване на апнеа) елиминира най-слабите мозъчни клетки правейки мозъка по-бърза и по-ефикасна машина!

Ето защо човек обикновено се чувства по-умен след няколко бири!

[ Fun ] You know you're Eastern European when...

2006-03-20T11:52:00.000+01:00

1.You had to share a room until you were 21.

2.Everything you eat is savored in garlic and onions.

3.You are standing next to the two largest suitcases at the airport.

4.You arrive one or two hours late to a party - and think its normal.

5.All your children have nick names, which sound nowhere close to their real names.

6.You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house.

7.Your mom tells you you're too skinny even though your 30 pounds overweight.

8.Your house is full of medicine from your old country and it's probably all illegal here.

9.You and your friends have been kicked out of a restaurant or recreational park for being too loud or rowdy.

10.You dont know how to use a dishwasher b/c u are the dishwasher.

11.You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.

12.You use grocery bags to hold garbage.

13.Your dad has butchered a pig or lamb.

14.You don't use measuring cups when cooking.

15.If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if you've eaten, even if it's midnight.

16.Your parents don't realize phone connections to foreign countries have improved in the last two decades, and still scream at

the top of their lungs when making foreign calls.

17. It's "normal" if your wedding has 600 people.

18.Your 15 year old sister can out-drink any American guy.

19.You drive a nicer car than your parents.

20.Your dad carries around enough money to buy a car.

21.You have all brand new appliances in your kitchen but your mom cooks in the basement with the stove from your old house.

22.Your parents have gone on vacation ONCE and it was to your home country.

23.You base your whole life on the fortune in your coffee cup

24.Your parents still prefer to buy cassettes instead of CDs.

25.You're actually nodding and laughing at most of these things

26.You 're a proud Eastern European and pass this on to your European friends.

27. your non-english speaking grandmother gives a shocked looked when you say 'pizza'

28. you wear french connection and other designer clothing when going to work out

29. you carry liquor back here from your country in plastic sprite bottles under tons of clothing in the suitcase

30. You have 17 consonants and 2 vowels in your last name

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Yeah, so? At least we have the best food, the most beautiful women, we don't see people weighing 200 Kg on the streets and we know how to enjoy life.

[ IT ] Whitespace Language

2006-03-20T11:39:00.000+01:00

The guys here, decided that it will be fun to create a programming language whose syntax contains only of spaces,tabulations and newlines.

And here it is! I would try to program something simple in this language, but a look at the examples section just erased this intention of mine. Anyway, for sure it will be very hard for someone to say that your program is not ordered,or that it is not readable and you should not be concerned for anyone looking in your screen now :-)

Furthermore you can go to a meeting with your project leader with a bunch of white sheets and explain him what a great things this program does...

and so on

Mainly jokes...

Ok,I add a simple example here:

Below is an extract from a program which asks for a name then outputs it:

####################################

[ Fun BG] Team building

2006-03-16T19:49:00.000+01:00

Действие Първо: Мотивация / Де-мотивация В една клетка затворили няколко маймуни (екип). В клетката имало кашони (ресурс) и банан, закачен на тавана (награда). Една от маймуните (лидер) наредила три кашона един върху друг, покачила се по тях и взела банана. От тавана започнала да пръска студена вода (намеса на Топ мениджмънта). Маймуните се разбягали. Закачили нов банан. Друга маймуна наредила кашоните, покачила се по тях и взела банана. Пак запръскала студена вода. Останалите маймуни я набили и изяли банана (работа в екип). Закачили нов банан. Сработил "рефлекса на Павлов" - щом една маймуна решила да вземе банана, другите я набили, защото знаели, че всички ще бъдат намокрени, но не всички ще ядат банан (групова отговорност).

Действие Второ: Силата на екипа
Намесил се HR отдела. Подменили една от маймуните (развитие на екипа). Новата маймуна решила да вземе банана, но останалите веднага я набили (фирмена култура). Постепенно подменили всички маймуни. Последната нова маймуна решила да вземе банана. Другите усърдно я набили, без да знаят защо - те никога не били мокрени (Team Spirit).

[ Fun БГ] Chessboxing

2006-03-16T17:03:00.000+01:00

Е това вече,тотално ме втрещи!!! Спортът наречен шахбокс. И не само това,ами вече е минало и първото европейско първенство.И не само това, ами дори и шампионът е българин! Значи не само ,че имаме световните титли за шах при мъже и жени и няколко олимпииски титли по бокс,но вече сме шампиони и в смеската им. Идеята на спорта е да се редуват рундове по бокс и блиц шах. Абе на кой му хрумват такива идеи ,че дори и успява турнири да организира,това е просто ненормално. Въпроса е че ако си много добър шахматист и видиш пред себе си някой 120 кила, злобно гледаш, кубинец,е тогава наистина имаш стимул да матираш в 4 хода :-) ... Някой навит за спаринг търся?

[ IT ] Vint Cerf,the Vice-president of Google, in Saarbruecken

2006-03-15T19:27:00.000+01:00

Vint Cerf (Turing Award 2004 -meaning very important person at the moment) visited Saarbruecken on 10.03.2006.This event was preceded for us by a dinner with a Google engineer and a recruiting lady. At the dinner they told us the known story of what a nice place,with intelligent and open people, open and interesting Google is. The bad thing is that to some extent they actually convinced me in this. But anyway I am not to be trusted with respect to this , because I am by default a Google fan.However Vint made a good show, making the audience laugh a lot. But somehow at the end of the day when I asked myself ,what was the idea behind the talk it was a hard question to answer.Still I have some idea and I want to present it here in short. First, even though they claim it was a recruiting talk,somehow it was not a talk about Google at all. It was a talk about an idea that Google is promoting as the next step in the development of the Internet and the network as a whole. The idea was very simple - from now on some research should be focused on the direction that all devices will be connected to the Internet and how to manage this infrastructure in order to be open,secure and scalable. All devices,computers,telephones,washing machines,ovens,fridges and even photo frames. That is why it is our goal now ,us in the universities,the so called research community to develop standards and designs and not to leave it to the commercial companies to do it. Mainly because they are driven by other goals than "making the world better".Thus Vint was more talking to the big researchers in the room like professors and post-docs advising them which will be an interesting,hot and supported research field.At least this is what I understood,however the talk was interesting and funny and I am still looking for the above mentioned picture frame connected to the net.

[ Personal ] EU Parliament Strasbourg

2006-03-15T19:13:00.000+01:00

Yesterday, we went to the European Parliament in Strasbourg. I was astonished by the interesting architecture and remarkable interior design. Furthermore Strasbourg is very interesting city with very nice small streets,french people everywhere and a lot of fascinating buildings. However it was extremely cold so we didn't see as much as we wanted :-(
Anyway what we are left from this excursion is the news that Bulgaria and Romania are going to enter the EU earliest in 2008. This was mentioned as indisputable fact from one of the gentlemen in the picture(German representative in the EUP),while he was explaining some of the current issues to the german group that we were with. He didn't consider it an open topic at all ,he mentioned it in a sentence like: "..with the new members joining in 2008,we need to do now this and that...". This was in German of course :)
However since we requested more details on this topic ,he was very surprised by our current standing. He said that it is known to most of the people in the parliament that we cannot enter with the current state of our justice department and corruption levels.
He said it is only a question of formallity to make this decision official.

Congratulations and lets hope for 2008!

[Personal] Jazz Concert

2006-03-08T21:40:00.000+01:00

Wow. Today was my first jazz concert. This was a really strange experience. Four guys in front of some average 40 years old audience,claiming to know what exactly were they playing but in fact there was no melody, no coordination...nothing. At least this is what it sounded like. Maybe I am absolutely wrong but anyway I'll give it a second shot ...someday...stay tuned

[IT] Google Updates

2006-03-08T10:15:00.000+01:00

A few comments on the Google recent developments:

Google Base: Google is going into the eBay's and all online actions business and as we know,when Google goes to some new web development sure as hell they do it good. And this can mean only one: hard times are to come for eBay and the other famous auction sites. However we as users are very much interested in the new big player in the auction game cause this will mean improvement of the service quality that we receive.

GDrive: Recently more information was released on Google's intention to provide users with online storage drive with code name GDrive. With the idea that the users can store all their files on this drive for free,thus accessible from every other point on the web,the only issue which will concern the end users is the security. Once again Google makes large steps towards collecting enormous amount of information. With the quality of the data mining procedures that they have we can all expect to have new "world leader" soon.

Videos from the Googleplex: Google were kind enough to make us a part of the atmosphere in their camp by sharing some of the talks given their with the community. This is a great opportunity for which all we need, is a good Internet bandwidth. Thank you :)

Google Page Creator: A new very interesting idea from the Labs is the development of page creator. Of course in their typical style Google will provide us with easy tools and hosting for our web pages thus getting rid of all the nasty details for us.

Google is on an interesting path of retrieving and structuring all the information in the world...I wonder where will this end?!

[Interesting] Bermuda Triangle

2006-03-08T09:43:00.000+01:00

Recently I watched a documentary which showed what kind of paranormal events are happening in the Bermuda triangle. I got interested and i visited the wiki page as a first source of information( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Triangle ) .It provided me with much more satisfactory information. It is written in a sceptical style but still If you read the "scientific explanations" section ,you will notice that some of these explanations ,like "Tidal waves" and "Methane hydrates" sound much artificial. After reading about the famous incidents with missing Flight 19 and Star Tiger airliner I still think there is a lot about our mother Earth that we have no clue of!

[Fun] Germany

2006-03-08T09:24:00.000+01:00

http://www.zenadsl5692.zen.co.uk/WeAreSinking.swf

Enjoy Germany ;-)