…he feels that an interesting trend is taking place in the chess world presently: a new generation of players, that he calls ‘post-Carlsen generation’, is coming up; young players who are not so much dependent on computers and are more practical, ‘hand players’. Carlsen may even become a world champion, but at this moment, a new generation is growing and training. ‘Richárd is one of them; then there is Nyzhnyk, a very interesting player from Ukraine, Berbatov, a very talented young player from Bulgaria. But the leader of this generation I would say is Wesley So. He is extremely talented and has produced some very interesting games, like his wins against Ivanchuk at the World Cup.
via Marginal Revolution: A mini-revolt against computers in chess.
rePost :: Facebook wants to control the Web, like it or not
Damn, part of me is considering deleting my facebook account seriously.
What do you think??
As usual with Facebook, you’re already entered into their nefarious scheme by default, though you can opt out. But it’s not exactly a cakewalk. PC World’s JR Raphael details the multistep tango [8] for turning off auto-sharing and disentangling your data from third-party sites.
Zuckerberg talks about the convenience of the Social Graph, and he’s right — it is more convenient when Pandora knows more about my musical preferences. (Of course, considering a premium Pandora account costs $36 a year, it should already know plenty.) It’s more convenient to simply click a button on a site I’ve just discovered and populate yet another Web profile with information I’ve already entered into Facebook. It’s more convenient to see which friends share my perverse interests without having to scroll through their Facebook profiles.
But the social graph isn’t about convenience — it’s about control. Facebook wants to own single-sign-on and authentication, just as Apple wants to own what apps you can install on your Wonder Tablet [9], and Amazon wants to control how you manage e-books on your Kindle [10] — only Facebooks wants to do it across the entire Web.
Factory City blogger Chris Messina [11] writes:
When all likes lead to Facebook, and liking requires a Facebook account, and Facebook gets to hoard all of the metadata and likes around the interactions between people and content, it depletes the ecosystem of potential and chaos — those attributes which make the technology industry so interesting and competitive. … it’s dishonest to think that the Facebook Open Graph Protocol benefits anyone more than Facebook — as it exists in its current incarnation, with Facebook accounts as the only valid participants.
As I and others have said before, your identity is too important to be owned by any one company.
via Facebook wants to control the Web, like it or not.
Musings :: 2010 04 23
- Attended my sister’s graduation from the College of Education. It was disorganized compared to Engineering’s but the way people showed appreciation to their Dean (Who I hear is a wonderful teacher.) and other Educ faculty was heart warming.
- Whenever I hear NO or am about to say NO to anything/anyone a part of me repeats this quote. ““Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”-Mark Twain“
- What has always been my irk with the operators and spin doctors of Villarroyo is how they seem to play us for fools. A little subtlety please.
- I miss school. I think it started when I had a John Hughes marathon and felt nostalgia for school stuff. I must be getting old. yuck.
- I was able to sample a lot of dishes from 145 Fahrenheit for Pam’s(My sister’s) grad lunch out. Food was great.
- Was able to watch 2 Filipino films this week. Anne Curtis and Sam Milby’s Babe, I love you and Erich Gonzales and Enchong Dee’s Paano ko sasabihin. Let’s just say that Babe, I love you would have failed if not for Anne Curtis spirited acting and that indefinable quality known as charisma, she just overflows with this unlike Sarah Geronimo or Bea Alonzo who needs a solid script and a great character to shine. Paano ko sasabihin? was the opposite. They had solid but leaning to the weak side performance of both leads but had a better than average material (script soundtrack peg etc) who suffered greatly from the malady of the ending is decided by how you view the world malady that Richard Linklater seems to love.
- PS:: Anne Curtis’ legs would be the second best reason to watch this film, although you see a lot of that in Showtime. hehehe . joke!
rePost :: f so many of us truly believe _____ is the best candidate to navigate the Philippines through these very tough times and we don't do what we can to make him president. :: Travelife Magazine's Suitcase Tales: Talking Travel with Gilbert Teodoro
The real tragedy lies with us Filipinos: if so many of us truly believe GIBO is the best candidate to navigate the Philippines through these very tough times and we don’t do what we can to make him president. If we believe he’ll make the best president and yet we don’t elect him because other candidates have more money, more machinery, more pedigree or a couple of very powerful media behind them, we’ve basically slammed the door on an opportunity that doesn’t come very often in the history of a country. Truly great presidential material is rare anywhere, but it’s perhaps rarer in countries like ours where real skills and capabilities take the backseat to sentimentalism, showbiz and media perceptions. Don’t we deserve and need the best qualified person as president, especially at this very crucial time for ourselves and the world?
via Travelife Magazine’s Suitcase Tales: Talking Travel with Gilbert Teodoro.
Quote :: :: Seeing Life Through Introvert Eyes | Psychology Today
A wise friend once said to me about being judge. I don’t care to judge other people and thus I don’t worry how they judge me. Just let each other be.
We are free to feel as we feel. As long as we don’t hurt others, we may live as we prefer. But trouble starts when we pass judgment on each other’s choices and perceptions. One reason we see extrovert bashing on this blog is because a lot of introverts who have been harshly judged for their preferences feel free here to vent their perceptions for a change. It’s not always easy, in a world where extroverts seem to rule, to defend our quiet ways.
via Seeing Life Through Introvert Eyes | Psychology Today.
rePost :: Burning Out ::The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell – The Tech
Very true.
Burning out
I worked hard at MIT. I routinely took seven to ten classes per semester and filled whatever hours were left in the day with part-time jobs and tutoring. It was a fairly stupid way of going about my education, and I missed out on many of the learning opportunities that MIT offers outside of classes. I don’t recommend what I did to anyone. But as stupid as carrying double course loads was, it had one advantage: After all the long hours I put into MIT, I believed I was invincible. If MIT couldn’t burn me out, nothing else ever could.
It took roughly three months before BCG disproved my “burn-out proof” theory. Putting together PowerPoint slides was easy, the hours were lenient, and the fifth day of every week usually consisting of a leisurely day away from the client site. By all accounts, I should have been coasting through my tasks.
What I learned is that burning out isn’t just about work load, it’s about work load being greater than the motivation to do work. It was relatively easy to drag myself to classes when I thought I was working for my own betterment. It was hard to sit at a laptop and crank out slides when all I seemed to be accomplishing was the transfer of wealth from my client to my company.
via The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell – The Tech.
Quote :: The man who looks for security, even in the mind, …… :: Character of the week: Henry Miller « Paulo Coelho’s Blog
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
via Character of the week: Henry Miller « Paulo Coelho’s Blog.
rePost :: Apparently, Mark Zuckerberg Still Writes Code
Apparently, Mark Zuckerberg Still Writes Code
by Michael Arrington on Apr 14, 2010
You’d think Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg would have abandoned coding long ago. But if his recent status update is to be believed, he’s still at it. “Mark Zuckerberg Just checked in some code and unit tests for f8,” he said via a status update. When asked what the code was, he responded “You’ll have to wait for f8 to find out.”
via Apparently, Mark Zuckerberg Still Writes Code.
Best Read Today :: The Ghost of Bobby Lee – National – The Atlantic
Read the whole thing!
Finally, there's the question of how we claim ancestors, a question that is more philosophical than biological. Africa, and African-America, means something to me because I claim it as such–but I claim much more. I claim Fitzgerald, whatever he thought of me, because I see myself in Gatsby. I claim Steinbeck because, whether he likes it or not, I am an Okie. I claim Blake because “London” feels like the hood to me.
And I claim them right alongside Lucille Clifton, James Baldwin and Ralph Wiley, who had it so right when he parried Saul Bellow. The dead, and the work they leave—the good and bad–is the work of humanity and thus says something of us all. And in that manner, I must be humble and claim some of Lee, Jackson, and Forrest. What might I have been in another skin, in another country, in another time?
via The Ghost of Bobby Lee – National – The Atlantic.
Quote :: ongoing by Tim Bray · Life at Google
Postscript: This is a little unfair. Normal people with lives in the neighborhood, aren’t doing this every day or even most days. And in fact the volume of really-late and really-early messaging is less than at other jobs I’ve had. But, if you like your work, it’s sure easy to get through a whole lot each day.
via ongoing by Tim Bray · Life at Google.