Our new offices!
We just moved in the Plug and Play Tech Center incubator in Sunnyvale, California.
Drop by for a visit if you're in the area!
Making it happen, live.
Getting things done
Mostly because I need to keep track of this, but.. Interesting stuff about how to get things done here. I am using this as a basis for my personal productivity-enhancement system.
Extreme art
Let's explore still-uncharted-on-this-blog territories, with a pass at contemporary art, and not any kind of contemporary art: what one could call "extreme art".
Li Wei is a chinese artist from Beijing, who specializes in photo-ops with an extremely dramatic edge... See for yourself:
More of this kind of eye-candy here:
http://www.hemmy.net/2008/04/19/the-impossible-art-of-li-wei/I don't know much about chinese contemporary art, apart from Cai Guo Qiang, who was the lead exhibition at the NYC Guggenheim back in March, when I used to meet my girlfriend halfway between Boston and Washington (wink wink! I love you Stephanie!!). Super cool exhibition by the way (and very good memories...). Cry Dragon/Cry Wolf and Head On are very impressive live.
A making-of video of Qiang's Guggenheim exhibit here: http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/exhibition_pages/cai.html
Thanks to the VSL team for sending this link (if you never heard of the 'Very Short List', it's a cool way to stay in touch with current memes, sent directly to your inbox every morning - not revolutionary, often quite behind the curve, but pretty cool).
A very sad piece of news
Some mornings make you wish you could go back to bed and roll back the hands
of time a couple of days, months or years. A very sad note today: Prof.
Randy Pausch, from the Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie
Mellon, died this morning from complications linked to pancreatic cancer.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/memoriam-randy-pausch-innovative-computer/story.aspx?guid=%7BA01E624E-ED45-4C4E-92F3-E59B7C5CC159%7D&dist=hppr
Randy Pausch had become famous well beyond his field for his extremely
inspirational 'Last Lecture', subtitled 'How to really achieve your
childhood dreams'. If you haven't seen it yet, I can only recommend spending
the next hour or so letting him guide you through this amazing presentation.
It's extremely sad and uplifting at once, and a rare and precious tribute to
life and its many hidden beauties. And yet, in the words of his mother, he
was only "a doctor, but not the kind that helps people".
May he rest in peace, and please have a thought for his family.
A friend's advisor on why carbon hogs might end up in jail
Dr. Edgar Blanco from MIT 's Engineering Systems Division (my alma mater!) was recently interviewed by Forbes on the potential for criminal charges for top executives failing to properly account for CO2 emissions, thanks to good old Sarbanes-Oxley... A bit far-fetched, quite scary, but a very interesting perspective. And huh, big news: we won't curb atmospheric CO2 concentration under 550ppm without some serious incentives.
The paper is here ('Here comes Carbox' ). I think the guy is the advisor of a good friend of mine (to be checked). Update: not directly - he just works at the same lab. Close enough!
And in an effort to spread a bit of color on this blog, I can't resist to print the new logo of our beloved ESD:
The paper is here ('Here comes Carbox' ). I think the guy is the advisor of a good friend of mine (to be checked). Update: not directly - he just works at the same lab. Close enough!
And in an effort to spread a bit of color on this blog, I can't resist to print the new logo of our beloved ESD:
A macro view on econometrics
Quite 'fitting' (pun intended, hee hee)
http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/faculty/pesaran/GHPEconometrics09Oct%2006.pdf
http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/faculty/pesaran/GHPEconometrics09Oct%2006.pdf
