I am back from my trip to Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was as good as I expected and sometimes even better. I really enjoyed my time over there, met a quite a few interesting people, established a few useful relationships, saw some interesting technologies, photographed a beautiful city, tasted some nice beers, and more. I brought … Continue reading Back from Amsterdam. Overview.
Tomorrow morning I am leaving for The Next Web Conference, which will take place in Amsterdam, Netherlands. I spent a few minutes in Wikipedia, reading about both Amsterdam and Netherlands. Here are some interesting highlights (direct quotes from Wikipedia): The Netherlands is often called Holland. This is formally incorrect as North and South Holland in … Continue reading Amsterdam, Netherlands
I am not a big fan of Tom Cruise. In fact, I passively try to avoid his movies. He is not a very good actor and there is something negative about the guy. When I saw the trailer for the “The Last Samurai” in the movies back a few years ago, I didn’t like it, … Continue reading The Last Samurai
It looks like humans aren’t all that useless when it comes to technology. There are still a few areas that we do better than machines. Image recognition is one of them. TechCrunch runs the story about one company that seems to be using humans in image recognition process. Comments to that story also mention Google … Continue reading Humans in image recognition
Paul Graham wrote yet another excellent essey – “How to Disagree“. The web is turning writing into a conversation. Twenty years ago, writers wrote and readers read. The web lets readers respond, and increasingly they do—in comment threads, on forums, and in their own blog posts. Many who respond to something disagree with it. That’s … Continue reading The art of the argument