Do you have a url? I googled and found just lectures on youtube.

Curious myself, and I found this:

https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_mg10/preview

As someone into OR myself, I'd like to see if it will be formally given again.

The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker

Im finding it very enligthening, have anyone read it? care to share your opinions?

Same thing here, so maybe my 2 cents can help; Make three broad stages for every project (research & design, implementation, knowledge transfer & communication) and then undertake each phase as one project with its own challenges; that way I fool myself into finishing it.

But it migth take an engineering mindset to know what component of the system you need to strike to make damage.

In a "normal" situation then, youll get that someone whos always wanted the job as the first pick to fill it, wich makes the randomnized promotions all that much desirable.

Also, the stickness of the promotion in your comment, sounds pretty random too. In the end, the proposition of "... using random processes to mitigate the pathological effects of deterministic models is extremely solid..." seems to hold.

Does any other hner can point me to other materials related to this series? I really think this series are, at least, a great intellectual exercise.

See http://searchyc.com/submissions/gervais?sort=by_date .

I've read all of the series in ribbonfarm, what I was looking for (in my poorly phrased english) is pointers to other related resources.

Ah. I don't have any decent reading suggestions. But as an unasked-for writing tip, I'd say you meant "like this," not "related to this."

I have a macbook wich i almost never power off, i see it as one of its advantages; is it a bad practice?

To be honest, I don't know if it's a bad thing to be running a laptop for months. I come from the background of using desktop PCs mostly and I must say, I had bad times with running them non-stop for months.

How? What could we be doing different if we have them?

Not rethorical, please share your opinion.

rapidly innovating physical products. fixing our own physical devices. 3d printers are to the physical world what 3gl languages are to software, or maybe assembly, or maybe machine language over punch cards.

The time you waste instructing the 3d printer to recreate your broken widget is better spent carving it out with the methods at hand.

That little steel thingy that wore out I can drill, file and bend by hand faster than you can CAD/CAM it up. You'll beat me if you're making many of something. But your home shop 3d printer still won't print steel.

You raise a good point - but consider:

* It is very possible that 3D printers may be able to craft some sort of metal in the future.

* You will have massive CAD sharing websites if 3D Printers were to ever become a home standard. You would be able to simply grab and print anything you need - quickly.

Your comment overlooks the fact that most people cannot drill, file or bend by hand.

The unfortunate reality is that most of us are not machinists. Much like how most of us cannot compute large mathematical equations. For this, we created a tool to make it so everyone could do. The result has grown far from that simple goal.

funny you mention the "cannot drill, file or bend" comment... i love using my drills and angle grinders... but never thought they were a big deal... felt they were common and easy until i met a whole bunch of family friends who found such work "beneath them" and/or were simply found it too "tricky"!

Very dense, the kind of book that a book geek writes.

When i read The DaVinci Code years later, it feeled like a very decaffeinated (really "de-lots of things") version of Foucaults Pendulum. It also feels like it spawned this sort of genre of history-mystery-conspiracy-airport-and-beach-novel.