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Ski day in Baqueira

Some days ago, some friends and I went to Baqueira to take the opportunity to enjoy the last snowfalls in Catalonia. And as always, we shot some of the most impressing slopes that we did. Below, there are a video of Francesc and a video of mine. I’ll continue posting more videos after the […]

Some days ago, some friends and I went to Baqueira to take the opportunity to enjoy the last snowfalls in Catalonia. And as always, we shot some of the most impressing slopes that we did. Below, there are a video of Francesc and a video of mine. I’ll continue posting more videos after the next ski days :).

Francesc’s Video

Albert’s video


Usages of R


R has gained a lot of traction on the scientific community for data analysis, modeling, and exploratory work. I just run into a post by Michael E. Driscoll in his Data Evolution blog about how R is used in Google and Facebook. Nothing new, but what got my attention was ParallelR. If you have been […]

R has gained a lot of traction on the scientific community for data analysis, modeling, and exploratory work. I just run into a post by Michael E. Driscoll in his Data Evolution blog about how R is used in Google and Facebook. Nothing new, but what got my attention was ParallelR. If you have been using R for large problems, I am pretty sure you have been wishing that there was some parallelization capabilities. ParallelR targets the problem, and it definitely an option to check out.

The ideal engineer

Nowadays our society is worried about the decrease in the number of engineers and we do not understand why the profession that ten years ago was seen the job of the future, has not turned out to be so.
On the 22nd January, the program “Einstein a la platja” on BTV raised this question with […]

Nowadays our society is worried about the decrease in the number of engineers and we do not understand why the profession that ten years ago was seen the job of the future, has not turned out to be so.
On the 22nd January, the program “Einstein a la platja” on BTV raised this question with […]

Goldberg’s and Ollé’s interview on BTV “The engineer of the future?”

Barcelona TV showed a video in which David E. Goldberg is interviewed about the problems of the current engineering systems. Goldberg emphasizes that the role of engineers has moved from category enhancers to category creators in the current days. In addition, he also highlights the importance of teaching the human dimension of the history of […]

Barcelona TV showed a video in which David E. Goldberg is interviewed about the problems of the current engineering systems. Goldberg emphasizes that the role of engineers has moved from category enhancers to category creators in the current days. In addition, he also highlights the importance of teaching the human dimension of the history of technology that we use and of presenting the heroes that created the objects that seem to have become indispensable in our life. In summary, engineering schools, and specifically we as teachers, need to spread the joy of engineering and never forget that engineers are people that can build applications that may improve people’s life.

All these ideas are complemented in a discussion in which Ramon Ollé and Josep Amat participate. The discussion resulted in many valuable arguments that may explain the decreasing number of students that go to the engineering school and in some ideas of how this tendency could be reversed. Arguments in favor of both introducing more business concepts and introducing more technical concepts appear in the discussion.

To wrap up: a video really worth watching which I think that makes several key points about what engineering is and what the engineering of the future should be. The only drawback: the language. Except for Goldberg’s interview, the remaining part of the video is only in Catalan.

Goldberg’s and Ollé’s interview on BTV “The engineer of the future?”

Barcelona TV showed a video in which David E. Goldberg is interviewed about the problems of the current engineering systems. Goldberg emphasizes that the role of engineers has moved from category enhancers to category creators in the current days. In addition, he also highlights the importance of teaching the human dimension of the history of […]

Barcelona TV showed a video in which David E. Goldberg is interviewed about the problems of the current engineering systems. Goldberg emphasizes that the role of engineers has moved from category enhancers to category creators in the current days. In addition, he also highlights the importance of teaching the human dimension of the history of technology that we use and of presenting the heroes that created the objects that seem to have become indispensable in our life. In summary, engineering schools, and specifically we as teachers, need to spread the joy of engineering and never forget that engineers are people that can build applications that may improve people’s life.

All these ideas are complemented in a discussion in which Ramon Ollé and Josep Amat participate. The discussion resulted in many valuable arguments that may explain the decreasing number of students that go to the engineering school and in some ideas of how this tendency could be reversed. Arguments in favor of both introducing more business concepts and introducing more technical concepts appear in the discussion.

To wrap up: a video really worth watching which I think that makes several key points about what engineering is and what the engineering of the future should be. The only drawback: the language. Except for Goldberg’s interview, the remaining part of the video is only in Catalan.

Evolution of Mona Lisa

Via a post by David Oranchak, I just run into a Roger Alsing exercise to evolve paintings using polygons. I found pretty surprising the quality of the evolved painting around the eyes. The video below presents the evolution of the Mona Lisa’s painting as it moves along. The original post also provides other snapshots.

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Via a post by David Oranchak, I just run into a Roger Alsing exercise to evolve paintings using polygons. I found pretty surprising the quality of the evolved painting around the eyes. The video below presents the evolution of the Mona Lisa’s painting as it moves along. The original post also provides other snapshots.

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    GroupTweet or getting groups in Twitter


    One of the main handicaps I keep running over and over with Twitter is that there is no concept of groups. The usual story goes along these lines: You get forced to create accounts that behave as groups, make their updates private, and then ask the members to request to follow, and once they follow, […]

    One of the main handicaps I keep running over and over with Twitter is that there is no concept of groups. The usual story goes along these lines: You get forced to create accounts that behave as groups, make their updates private, and then ask the members to request to follow, and once they follow, that’s it. Yes, a bit convoluted. Yesterday, I ran into GroupTweet that basically automates this process. It still creates a new user account that works as a group fan but, at least it makes the process easier.