About The Machine Learning for Sustainability (MLSUST 2011) Workshop

enero 12, 2012
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When I started writing this post, I was sitting on a train from Granada to Madrid. I had spent the last two days in Sierra Nevada, a National Park in Spain known for its great ski slopes. The Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference for 2011 had its workshops there in December, and I was [...]

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Dos mil doce

enero 11, 2012

¿Saben qué día es hoy? Es el día en el que reinicio mis labores escribiendo por aquí. Bienvenido sea el 2012. La visita a La Isla que hicimos para finalizar el 2011 fue espectacular. Tan buena fue la cosa que ayer, después de llegar, me pasé 40 horas en ayuno, tratando de recuperar un poco [...]

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Tacos de Carnitas

diciembre 26, 2011

This is what we prepared for dinner on Christmas Eve. It was incredibly tasty: The carnitas, which were the heart of the meal, were the key to it all: And here is the recipe I used: Ingredients 3 lbs. of pork shoulder steaks 1 red onion, sliced 4 garlic cloves 3 tbs of smoked alderwood [...]

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Adjetivos, Verbos, Sustantivo, Predicado

diciembre 25, 2011

Hace unos años, cuando compartía un apartamento con un amigo chino, grabé una serie de vídeos en los que él trataba de pronunciar palabras en español. Por ejemplo: Chinese Trying to Speak Spanish Todavía hoy, los vídeos siguen recibiendo comentarios y generalmente giran en torno a lo difícil que es hablar un idioma o el [...]

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Links (25/December/2011)

diciembre 25, 2011

There are four links to share with you for the past two weeks. One of the more interesting ones is this detailed study on flavor networks: Here is the list of links: Smoke Screening – A piece by Charles Mann (the author of 1491 and 1493) discussing the failure of the new airport security measures [...]

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Twitter summary for @bergesmario (2011-12-25)

diciembre 25, 2011

A week ago I turned off cookies on my browser and started to manually add exceptions. Painful, but informative. # This could be an interesting event: http://t.co/TCwireWC Converging energy, information, buildings and transportation. #verge2012 # Distrusting the cloud: backing up my 20GB GMail account. http://t.co/REIxX2MY #

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Analyzing my e-mail usage, 2011

diciembre 23, 2011
Annual e-mail exchange

Last year, after starting the job as a faculty member, I decided to analyze my e-mail usage up to that point and discovered that there had been a sharp increase in the number of e-mails sent/received immediately after I started the new job. I had the impression that things had only escalated since that time [...]

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Burundanga o no, manténgase alerta

diciembre 19, 2011

Yo pensé que era una leyenda urbana. La noticia me ha dejado pensando mucho, incluso tratando de reconciliar lo poco que sé sobre la fisiología humana y lo que pasó. Hoy, mientras volaba de regreso a Pittsburgh desde Madrid, mi papá estuvo cerca de ser atracado en Santo Domingo. La historia, para que la conozcan [...]

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Twitter summary for @bergesmario (2011-12-18)

diciembre 18, 2011

Tip: if you are updating to iOS 5, make sure you remember your old iTunes password. http://t.co/340oBsca # Pretty cool: Visualizing Photons in Motion at a Trillion Frames Per Second http://t.co/VvopOABe (via @JRoques) # Approx. annual e-mail exchanges from my account since 2005 (in thousands): 3, 6, 14, 16, 19, 27, 37. I can no [...]

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Links (11/Diciembre/2011)

diciembre 13, 2011

It’s funny how effective a promise to myself can be. I promised to write every day of the month of November (starting on the 7th), and I did. But after that I have written very little here. Anyway, here are the links for the week that just passed: Idea.me: Kickstarter for Latin-American entrepreneurs. Why Calorie [...]

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