Geeky talks about ‘Getting Things Done’

By arafalov, on April 28th, 2007%

Getting Things Done (GTD) is an interesting system for managing one’s time and making things happen. It was originally pitched at CEO, with a lot of different projects on their plates at the same time. Lately, however, I have noticed a significant uptake of it by system administrators, programmers and other IT geeks.

Being a geek myself, . . . → Read More: Geeky talks about ‘Getting Things Done’

4 comments   General Education

Best language learning site for me: WordChamp

By arafalov, on April 24th, 2007%

I really like WordChamp to help me with learning foreign languages. It was good for me when I was learning French. It is good to me now that I am learning Spanish. And the last couple of months it was getting better nearly on a weekly basis.

That did not used to be the case. I looked . . . → Read More: Best language learning site for me: WordChamp

2 comments   Language Acquisition, Spanish

Spock announces an Entity Resolution competition

By arafalov, on April 15th, 2007%

Netflix prize must be doing well, as there are now other companies willing to tap into web’s researchers with deep knowledge of computational techniques.

The latest company is Spock, a company so new that you have to read 3rd party sites to figure out exactly what they do. Even to use it, one has to signup for . . . → Read More: Spock announces an Entity Resolution competition

4 comments   Computational Linguistics, web2.0

Yuri’s night – let’s go

By arafalov, on April 12th, 2007%

Tonight (April 12th, 2007) is Yuri’s night, a celebration of first manned space flight done by Yuri Gagarin, the russian cosmonaut. It is 46th anniversary of the original 1961 event.
I had missed the party last year, but – being Russian and a geek – I am certainly making it this year. There are parties all . . . → Read More: Yuri’s night – let’s go

2 comments   General Education