Essays on Latinoware

[En-US]   Late report again. Today I'm here to talk about something serious. It may not look like, you may think it's just some kind of stupid party, but no, it's way bigger than that and it really upsets me how little attention it gets from the media.    Let's talk about Latinoware. Well, "what is it?", you might ask me. Latinoware is an Open Source Software related event/conference, promoted by Itaipu Bi-National at Foundation Itaipu Technological Park in Foz do Iguaçu, PR, Brazil. Its name is...

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Essays on Bad Religion

[En-US] Hello, fellow random reader. It's been a long time since my last post. I've been really... lazy.   So, on October 11th was "the" night. The remarkable rocking band Bad Religion was on tour in South America and I just couldn't miss that opportunity. Their show took place in Curitiba Master Hall, where lots of different people were gathered, not just the regular rock n' roll fans. After the opening band (Abra Cadáver, I guess) stopped playing, the lights went down and there was this peculiar human...

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Ensaio sobre Site da UFPR Invadido

[Pt-BR] Não há muito o que dizer. Trago-lhes em primeira mão a notícia de que mais uma vez o site da Universidade Federal do Paraná foi hackeado. Estou acompanhando há algumas horas as alterações que estão sendo feitas no portal da UFPR. Entretanto está tudo muito lento; tanto o processo de alterações quanto o servidor. Na última festa que ocorreu no site, um texto bem interessante fora publicado a respeito de Wellington.    Desta vez, um não tão engraçado. Trata-se da legalização do casamento com...

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Ensaio sobre Curitiba

[Pt-BR] O texto a seguir foi copiado do post  As 10 Cidades Mais Resilientes do Planeta porque eu perdi a vontade de escrever tudo o que tinha em mente. Quem sabe mais tarde eu o faça. --- A atual edição da revista canadense Corporate Knights, que traz sempre artigos com um enfoque original sobre sustentabilidade corporativa, traz um artigo sobre as dez cidades mais resilientes do mundo. Entenda-se por cidade resiliente aquela empenhada em retornar a seu estado de equilíbrio ecológico após passar por intenso...

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Essays on Albert Einstein

Einstein [En-US] Researches about the light are old, really old. Centuries old, I mean, altough they just got significantly developed on the second half of the XVIII century with new findings regarding electromgnetism. The first names to pop out were Maxwell, Lorentz and Poincaré. Great names that got the deserved attention at the time, but were forgotten for decade...

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Ensaio sobre o Livre Arbítrio

[Pt-BR] Os homens imaginam ser livres porque têm consciência das suas volições e dos seus desejos, e não pensam, nem em sonho, nas causas pelas quais se dispuseram a desejar e a querer, por não terem o menor conhecimento delas  -Spino...

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Essays on 9/11

[En-US]      September's 11th day has come again. Ten years. Ten years have past since the remarkable fall of the World Trade Center. I remember watching the news as if it all happened a year ago. Given the special anniversary, I decided to make this pos...

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Essays on Deal eXtreme

[En-US] Hey hey hey. Just passing by to-- Holy Red-Eyes Black Dragon! The sky just went dark! Who cares... Anyway, I ordered some products from DX for the first time. They arrived yesterday. Perfect shap...

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Essays on Poetry VI

[En-US] Beautiful poetry today.  I Think Bad Though...

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Ensaio sobre Wella

[Pt-BR] Esta postagem é dedicada ao meu antigo professor do Ensino Médio, o senhor Wellington Borges Costa. Conhecido como Wella, este carismático mentor foi vítima de repressão militar por razões "ultrajantes" em frente ao bar Ao Distinto Cavalheiro. Uma pena que só hoje eu tenha me tornado ciente desse fato, ocorrido em março deste an...

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Essays on Real Pokemon

[En-US] Long time no see. I randomly got into a website with lots of info and pictures on deep-sea fishes (later post) and also saw some animals related to pokemon. Ripping some stuff from there and other sources, I added some pictures and created the most complete "real pokemon catalog". I may update this post including some info regarding the animals...

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Essays on Bone Broke

[En-US] "So what happened to your awesome blog? Why has it stopped?" You may ask. Well, let's say I'm not in the mood to keep posting as I used to. But I'm sure I'll be back on track soon. So what happened is that I went to the bakery to buy some bread, but the people on the street were annoying me, so I sat on the railroad and waited for everyone to go away...

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Ensaio sobre Heurísticas em Engines de Jogos de Lógica II

[Pt-BR]  Continuando nosso humilde artigo. Leia a primeira parte aqui: http://essaysonlogic.blogspot.com/2011/07/ensaio-sobre-heuristicas-em-engines-de.html RESUMO (clique para lê-lo) Este artigo foi, em suma, inspirado na ideia de fazer a máquina vencer um humano em seu próprio jogo. Esta ideia serve para jogos que se enquadram na definição de atividade intelectual. São exemplificadas as formas de representação virtual do tabuleiro com arrays e do jogo em si com árvores. Cada nó contém um estado possível do...

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Essays on Poetry V

[En-US] No posts yesterday, yes. I've been busy, but richer, thank you very much for asking...

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Essays on Et Cetera IV

[Bl-AH] Blah blah blah. Blah, bla-ah blah. Best-kept secr...

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Essays on Quotations II

[En-US] Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard w...

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Essays on the Shortest Path

Sentence-construction Graph [En-US] Do you know that old math problem asking you to find the shortest way between two cities? Well, it is content of Computer Science's Graphs area. One of the most simple problems, actuall...

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Essays on Poetry IV

[En-US] So I just had this great shower to start the day like a dog in a chain. And found out the underbelly is sicker than it seems. And it seems ugly, but it can get worse. Because once you got a theory of how the thing works, everybody wants the next thing to be just like the first. [1...

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Essays on Politics IV

[En-US] First off, I'm sorry for the lack of posts. I've been very busy at work and had some problems with homeless terrorists. Speaking of which... Gun Rights Advocates Wary of Coming Obama Measures in Wake of Tucson Shoot...

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Essays on The Trap I

[En-US] No, this is not about that kind of traps... nor the other kind. In this post I'll talk about a BBC documentary called The Trap. PLOT (click to read it) This television series was created by Adam Curtis and started airing on March 2007 with three one-hour episodes. The show explores the conception and definition of freedom/free-will and human behavior amongst society; while its precedent documentary, The Power of Nightmares, is about a comparison between Neo-Conservative movement in the USA and the radical...

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Essays on Quotations I

[En-US]   What about some deep quotations so you can have something to think about on your remaining minutes of life? Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different resul...

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Ensaio sobre Heurísticas em Engines de Jogos de Lógica I

[Pt-BR] RESUMO (clique para lê-lo)  Este artigo foi, em suma, inspirado na ideia de fazer a máquina vencer um humano em seu próprio jogo. Esta ideia serve para jogos que se enquadram na definição de atividade intelectual. São exemplificadas as formas de representação virtual do tabuleiro com arrays e do jogo em si com árvores. Cada nó contém um estado possível do jogo; cada turno leva a um novo nó. As folhas são os diversos fins de jogo....

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Essays on Poetry III

[En-US] Last week there were no poems, so today we're having three. Messy RoomWhosever room this is should be ashamed! His underwear is hanging on the lamp. His raincoat is there in the overstuffed chair, And the chair is becoming quite mucky and da...

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Essays on Hero

Cho Seung-Hui [EN-US] People make me laugh. This guy was bullied, being laughed at, pointed at, etc. People didn't give one fuck then. They didn't care that they made him suffer, that his self-esteem took a hit every time they mocked him. "Who cares? He's here for our entertainment! He's the Finnish guy to make fun of!"...

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Essays on Asymptotic Notations and Recurrences

Erik Demaine [En-US] Oh, my, look at this professor. I wish I had classes with him. He's young, nerdish and awesome. In the video we have a very good lecture on Asymptotic Notations. The professor briefly explains the Ο (capital Omicron, also known as Big-O), Ω (capital Omega) and Θ (capital Theta) symbols. Then he shows how to solve a recurrence using them, which was new to m...

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