Archive for September, 2008
Stanford Online Courses
Posted by Alexandru Palade | Filed under Tech
About two weeks ago, I’ve found out about Stanford new initiative of offering free online courses in engineering. The new project is called Stanford Engineering Everywhere and it currently offers 10 online courses, spread in three categories: Introduction to Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Linear Systems and Optimization. I’m particularly interested in the first category and I’ve started watching the videos from these classes. At first, I thought I’ll be going through all of them, but then I’ve found out some are way basic stuff. However, I [...] Read more
Frumoasa Piatra a Craiului
Posted by Alexandru Palade | Filed under Eu
Saptamana trecuta mi-am luat o pauza de la stagiul de practica pe care-l fac in aceasta vara-toamna si am fost la munte in Piatra Craiului. Acum cinci ani de zile am mai facut o incercare la creasta acestui munte, dar fara succes datorita lipsei de experienta. Asa ca in aceasta vara, in aceeasi formatie ca acuma cinci ani, ne-am incercat din nou puterile. Si am reusit! toti trei: Adi, Preda si subsemnatul. Descriere amanuntita a celor intamplate pe pagina proiectului Străin În Ţara Mea [legatura externa]. Va recomand sa cititi articolul ca Preda a fost inspirat tare [...] Read more
Zero: Biografia unei idei periculoase
Posted by Alexandru Palade | Filed under Eu, Uncategorized
Saptamana trecuta cand ma intorceam de acasa am avut patru ore pline de stat degeaba in tren asa ca mi-am continuat cititul cartii Zero: Biografia unei idei periculoase (English title Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea). Si am terminat-o. In sfarsit. (in sfarsit pentru ca m-am apucat de mult tare sa o citesc, dar din cauza lipsei de timp, nu am reusit sa ajung la finalul ei) De-a lungul a 250 de pagini (!) este prezentata istoria lui zero. Cine ar fi banuit ca o singura cifra ar putea avea o istorie asa captivanta si, mai ales, stufoasa? Desi am avut senzatia – pe tot parcursul [...] Read more
Ubiquity – Mozilla’s way to make it easier
Posted by Alexandru Palade | Filed under Tech
About 2 weeks ago Mozilla’s labs launched a new Firefox extension which brings us – the users – a lot of power and faster web browsing. In my personal opinion – after it hits a stable version – should be made a must-have extension or, why not, including it in the out-of-the-box code. I’m using it since it’s launch and I can honestly say it’s GREAT. Though it still has many bugs (like crashing when you want to translate all the page) – do not forget it’s a development version, not a stable one – you can try it and use it to [...] Read more
Google Chrome – the new buzz
Posted by Alexandru Palade | Filed under Tech
I’m writing a bit late about Google’s new Chrome browser because I first wanted to see people’s opinion about it, about it’s marketing strategy and about it’s technical details and then present a short discussion about all. First things first – technical details. I don’t want to recreate all posts that have been written about Chrome’s features, but I would like to emphasis one of them – separate processes for every tab you open. This a great thing and I, as a computer user, I’m ready to pay extra (resource-wise) for having this [...] Read more