Kategorie: Allgemein

59 years of generation conflicts.

At 26, Swedish Pirate party deputy, Amelia Andersdotter, is currently the youngest MEP, while 85-year-old French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen is the oldest.

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Physicalities.

I think the first and foremost principle of a higher-level programming language is that of machine independence. A higher-level programming language should allow the programmer to solve a problem rather than drive a physical system. This was a crazy idea in the 1950s.

Dan Ghica about seamless computing

But not now.

I used to be my own protection

Linkin Park - Valentine's Day

Staubsauger statt Wasserhahn.

So, you think about new things that you can do with vacuum cleaners. So, first, you're like: I can use a vacuum cleaner to clean bookshelves! That'd be super-useful! But then you do a Google Scholar search and it turns out that someone else did that like ten years ago.

OK, your next idea: I can use a vacuum cleaner to clean cats! That'd also be super-useful. But, alas, a bit more searching in the literature reveals that someone tried that, too, but they didn't get good results. You're a confident young grad student, so you decide that, armed with some additional techniques that you happen to know, you might fix the problems that the other researcher had and get vacuuming cats to work. You spend several months on it, but, alas, it doesn't get you any further.

Yasha Berchenko-Kogan answers to What do grad students in math do all day?

Ein Moment Ewigkeit.

Ich wünsch euch, dass ihr wieder Staunen lernt
wie ein Kind, das im Augenblick ertrinkt
und das Ringen um ein besseres Morgen
euch nicht zu viel nimmt

Die Apokalyptischen Reiter - Ein liebes Lied