Gücüksu bir dağın dibinde olduğundan güneş köye saat 9 gibi vurmaya başlar. Baazır'ın torunlarından Yahya emminin ötegeçeye büyük aynalar koyarak köyü daha erken saatlerde aydınlatma fikri o zamanki teknolojik yetersizlikler nedeniyle yerine getirilememiş. Fikre müstehzi bir gülümseme ile burun kıvaranlara daha geçenlerde İtalya'nın Viganella köyünde bunun yapıldığını belirtirim! Belki Baazır'ın torununun torunu olan Şemil projeyi tekrar ele alabilir ;) Baazır'la ilgili not: Baca örmedeki becerisinin yanısıra beyaz sıva işinde de ehilmiş.
Babamın babası olan Süleyman ilkokul üçe kadar Kuzutepe'de (nam-ı diğer Temurağa) okumuş. Kuzutepe Gücüksu'ya yayan olarak herhalde iki saat vardır. O zamanlar üçüncü sınıf için diploma verilirmiş. Annesi Selihat öğle yemeği için bir yumurta, biraz da ekmek veririmiş, tabi yetmezmiş. O zamanlar herşey kıt. Süleyman'ın ilk eşi Bılı (Hayriye - Sevim'in nenesi olur).
Selihat torunlarına (birisi babam) "Burası halife toprağı, bu topraklar kutsaldır, hıyanet etmeyin sakın!" diye tembihlermiş sık sık. Bizim ailedeki Türkiye'yi vatan bilme, vatana sadakat ve bağlılık o zamanlardan beri nesilden nesile geçmektedir.
Gücüksu'da bir önceki neslin okuma oranı bugünkü nesle göre daha iyi gibi görünüyor. Önceki neslin temsilcilerinden olan Veysel (babam olur) Maraş'ta liseyi tamamladıktan sonra öğretmenlik için gerekli fark derslerini verir ve staj yapar, böylece öğretmenliğe hak kazanır. Akabinde üniversite sınavına girer ve tıp okumak ister. Ne yazık ki puanı İstanbul Hukuk'a yeter. Hukuk'taki ilk yılından sonra sıkılır ve askere gider. Askerliğinin bir kısmını Hakkari'nin Beytüşşebap ilçesinin (bugün Şırnak'a bağlı) Yeşilöz (Kürtçe adı Faraşin - sanırım kale demek) köyünde ilkokul öğretmeni olarak yapar, askerden sonra da tayini aynı yere çıkar (1968-71). Yandaki foto o günlerden kalma.
İlkokul öğretmenliğinden emekli olduktan sonra fotoğraf stüdyosu açtı. Halen Göksun'da Stüdyo Veysel'de çalışmaktadır. Oraya giderseniz ortadoğu ve balkanların en araştırmacı insanlarından biri ile karşılaşırsınız. İçerisi bilgisayarlar, ses ve görüntü sistemleri ile doludur ;)
Babamın en önemli özelliği çoğu insanın sormadığı, soramadığı soruları sorması, kafa yormasıdır. Bugün eğer ben iki kuruş sorgulama kabiliyetine sahip isem bunu babamdan miras aldığımı düşünürüm.
"Where all think alike, no one thinks very much" Walter Lippmann. Türkçe meali: "Herkesin benzer düşündüğü yerde kimse pek de düşünmüyor demektir"
Göksun'dan dumur detayı: Bir vesile ile Ericek Kasabası'na gitmiştik. Kasaba meydanında beklerken belediye hoparlöründen şöyle bir anons yapıldı:
"Sulama bekçisinden duyuru. Sulama programı bekçi tarafından yapılmaktadır. Bazı vatandaşların programa aykırı olarak sulama yaptıkları görülmüştür. Programa aykırı sulama yapanlar bekçi tarafından tespit edilecek ve kendilerine kötü konuşulacaktır. İlanen duyrulur."
Ericek'liler ne kadar kibar insanlar diye düşündüm :) İşin enteresanı, Ericek Göksun civarının Teksas'ı olarak bilinir. Bir diğer özelliği de arsa fiyatlarının Göksun'un beş katı olmasıdır. Neredeyse Ankara ile yarışıyor! Toprakların verimli olması ve yoğun nüfus etkili.
mp3
I Monster - Daydream in Blue
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Friday, November 17, 2006
Norveçli Yapmış!
Pek eğlenceli videolar Norveçli Lasse Gjertsen kardeşimizden. Bana nedense Nardatlımızı hatırlattı yahu ;)
A List Of Fallacious Arguments
A List Of Fallacious Arguments: "Argument By Gibberish (Bafflement):
Gibberish may come from people who can't find meaning in technical jargon, so they think they should copy style instead of meaning. It can also be a 'snow job', AKA 'baffle them with BS', by someone actually familiar with the jargon. Or it could be Argument By Poetic Language.
An example of poetic gibberish: 'Each autonomous individual emerges holographically within egoless ontological consciousness as a non-dimensional geometric point within the transcendental thought-wave matrix.'"
Another famous example is Şamil's use of exponential functions to prove anything ;)
"Weasel Wording:
This is very much like Euphemism, except that the word changes are done to claim a new, different concept rather than soften the old concept. For example, an American President may not legally conduct a war without a declaration of Congress. So, various Presidents have conducted "police actions", "armed incursions", "protective reaction strikes," "pacification," "safeguarding American interests," and a wide variety of "operations". Similarly, War Departments have become Departments of Defense, and untested medicines have become alternative medicines. The book "1984" has some particularly good examples."
Gibberish may come from people who can't find meaning in technical jargon, so they think they should copy style instead of meaning. It can also be a 'snow job', AKA 'baffle them with BS', by someone actually familiar with the jargon. Or it could be Argument By Poetic Language.
An example of poetic gibberish: 'Each autonomous individual emerges holographically within egoless ontological consciousness as a non-dimensional geometric point within the transcendental thought-wave matrix.'"
Another famous example is Şamil's use of exponential functions to prove anything ;)
"Weasel Wording:
This is very much like Euphemism, except that the word changes are done to claim a new, different concept rather than soften the old concept. For example, an American President may not legally conduct a war without a declaration of Congress. So, various Presidents have conducted "police actions", "armed incursions", "protective reaction strikes," "pacification," "safeguarding American interests," and a wide variety of "operations". Similarly, War Departments have become Departments of Defense, and untested medicines have become alternative medicines. The book "1984" has some particularly good examples."
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Hayatın anlamı
Geçenlerde Pegasus ile sohbet ederken hayatta önem vermek gereken şeyler nedir diye düşünmüştük. İşte bazı düşünceler:
Öğrenme, şaşırma: Hayatı ilgi çekici hale getiren öğrenebilmek, birşeylere ilgi duymaktır. Bunun için de bilgi edinmenin yollarını bilmek, özellikle de bilimsel yöntemi özümsemek gerekir. Bilimsel yöntem basitçe her iddia için ispat talep etmektir.
İnsanlarla birliktelik: Herhangi birşey başka insanlarla birlikte yapıldığında çok daha zevkli ve doyurucudur. Hemen şu an aklıma gelen basit örnek: Georgian Legend'i Nesij ve Yinal'le birlikte seyrettiğimizde aldığımız tadı hala hatırlarım. İnsanlarla birlikte birşeyler yapmanın en önemli önkoşulu insanları anlamaktır, empatidir.
Başkalarının kendi ayakları üstünde durmasını sağlamak: Burada ön koşul sizin yardımınızın talep edilmesidir. Aksi takdirde vaaz verir duruma düşersiniz.
Nezaket, küçük iyilikler: Trafikte mecbur değilken bile yayalara yol vermek, içtenlikle gülümsemek, selam vermek... Espirleri başkalarını rencide etmek üzerine kurmamak...
Aşk: Ulaşmak ve sürdürmek meşakkatlidir. Özgüven, şefkat ve dürüstlük olmazsa olmazlardır. Ama tüm çabalara değer ve sadece aşkın aydınlığı dahi hayatı anlamlı kılmaya yeter.
Kafayı çok yormamak gereken şeylere örnekler (hiç yormayalım demiyorum):
Dünya malı: Temin edene kadar tonla analiz yaptırır, aldıktan sonra da sürekli bakım ister, zihni yorar. 25C ortam sıcaklığı, tok bir karın ve sağlık dışında birşey istemiyorum. Ne kadar az, o kadar iyi.
Güncel Dünya politikası: Bilgi kaynağımız medya... Medyanın da kendi çıkar grubuna uygun yanlı ve taraflı haberler verdiğini biliyoruz. Bilgi kaynağımızın bu kadar berbat olduğu bir konuda kafa patlatıp varsayımlar türetmek abesle iştigaldir.
Orhan Pamuk'a Nobel niye verildi: Bana ne? Kendine bunu dert edinenlere sorum: Nobel komitesinin açıklamasını okuma zahmetine katlanmış olan var mı? Okumadınız ve fikir mi oluşturdunuz? Başarılar dilerim.
Aklımıza daha rafine fikirler geldikçe listemizi güncelleyelim.
mp3:
Yiruma - When the love falls
Kafayı çok yormamak gereken şeylere örnekler (hiç yormayalım demiyorum):
Aklımıza daha rafine fikirler geldikçe listemizi güncelleyelim.
mp3:
Yiruma - When the love falls
Nested loop performance improvement
Below is a nested loop that calculates values of d. To do that, a, b, and c are calculated in nested loops. Here is the nested loop that most of us would code:
Now, what would happen if we moved a and b out of the main loop and calculated them outside? The first thought that comes to mind is that performance would suffer since we increase the total number of operations:
However, the second scenario executes faster...as much as 5 times! That may mean the difference between life and death if you have execution time constraints. Another leaky abstraction at work...
mp3:
Cassius - Toop toop
Murat Boz - Aşkı bulamam ben
MFÖ - Sarı laleler
Randy Newman - Rider in the rain
Now, what would happen if we moved a and b out of the main loop and calculated them outside? The first thought that comes to mind is that performance would suffer since we increase the total number of operations:
However, the second scenario executes faster...as much as 5 times! That may mean the difference between life and death if you have execution time constraints. Another leaky abstraction at work...
mp3:
Cassius - Toop toop
Murat Boz - Aşkı bulamam ben
MFÖ - Sarı laleler
Randy Newman - Rider in the rain
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Mind the Gap
Mind the Gap: "When we talk about "unequal distribution of income," we should also ask, where does that income come from? Who made the wealth it represents? Because to the extent that income varies simply according to how much wealth people create, the distribution may be unequal, but it's hardly unjust."
"With the rise of the middle class, wealth stopped being a zero-sum game. Jobs and Wozniak didn't have to make us poor to make themselves rich. Quite the opposite: they created things that made our lives materially richer. They had to, or we wouldn't have paid for them."
"Only a few countries (by no coincidence, the richest ones) have reached this stage. In most, corruption still has the upper hand. In most, the fastest way to get wealth is by stealing it."
"You need rich people in your society not so much because in spending their money they create jobs, but because of what they have to do to get rich. I'm not talking about the trickle-down effect here. I'm not saying that if you let Henry Ford get rich, he'll hire you as a waiter at his next party. I'm saying that he'll make you a tractor to replace your horse"
"With the rise of the middle class, wealth stopped being a zero-sum game. Jobs and Wozniak didn't have to make us poor to make themselves rich. Quite the opposite: they created things that made our lives materially richer. They had to, or we wouldn't have paid for them."
"Only a few countries (by no coincidence, the richest ones) have reached this stage. In most, corruption still has the upper hand. In most, the fastest way to get wealth is by stealing it."
"You need rich people in your society not so much because in spending their money they create jobs, but because of what they have to do to get rich. I'm not talking about the trickle-down effect here. I'm not saying that if you let Henry Ford get rich, he'll hire you as a waiter at his next party. I'm saying that he'll make you a tractor to replace your horse"
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Felsefenin değeri
Bertrand Russel'dan felsefenin kıymeti üzerine şahane bir yazı daha, The value of philosophy:
"The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the co-operation or consent of his deliberate reason. To such a man the world tends to become definite, finite, obvious; common objects rouse no questions, and unfamiliar possibilities are contemptuously rejected. As soon as we begin to philosophize, on the contrary, we find, as we saw in our opening chapters, that even the most everyday things lead to problems to which only very incomplete answers can be given. Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom. Thus, while diminishing our feeling of certainty as to what things are, it greatly increases our knowledge as to what they may be; it removes the somewhat arrogant dogmatism of those who have never travelled into the region of liberating doubt, and it keeps alive our sense of wonder by showing familiar things in an unfamiliar aspect."
"Thus, to sum up our discussion of the value of philosophy; Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good"
"The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the co-operation or consent of his deliberate reason. To such a man the world tends to become definite, finite, obvious; common objects rouse no questions, and unfamiliar possibilities are contemptuously rejected. As soon as we begin to philosophize, on the contrary, we find, as we saw in our opening chapters, that even the most everyday things lead to problems to which only very incomplete answers can be given. Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom. Thus, while diminishing our feeling of certainty as to what things are, it greatly increases our knowledge as to what they may be; it removes the somewhat arrogant dogmatism of those who have never travelled into the region of liberating doubt, and it keeps alive our sense of wonder by showing familiar things in an unfamiliar aspect."
"Thus, to sum up our discussion of the value of philosophy; Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good"
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Getting Real
What is Getting Real? (by 37signals): "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell."
Have an enemy: "We realized project management isn't about charts, graphs, reports and statistics — it's about communication. It also isn't about a project manager sitting up high and broadcasting a project plan. It's about everyone taking responsibility together to make the project work."
Start with no:"Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features."
Wordsmiths:"Good writing skills are an indicator of an organized mind which is capable of arranging information and argument in a systematic fashion and also helping (not making) other people understand things. It spills over into code, personal communications, instant messaging (for those long-distance collaborations), and even such esoteric concepts as professionalism and reliability."
Have an enemy: "We realized project management isn't about charts, graphs, reports and statistics — it's about communication. It also isn't about a project manager sitting up high and broadcasting a project plan. It's about everyone taking responsibility together to make the project work."
Start with no:"Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features."
Wordsmiths:"Good writing skills are an indicator of an organized mind which is capable of arranging information and argument in a systematic fashion and also helping (not making) other people understand things. It spills over into code, personal communications, instant messaging (for those long-distance collaborations), and even such esoteric concepts as professionalism and reliability."
Kış geldi
Bu yıl kış biraz erken geldi. Kasım ayında ufaktan kar atıştırabiliyordu ama bu sabahki manzara geçen yıl ocak sonunda meydana gelmişti.
Saturday, November 04, 2006
Schneier on Security
Airline Security a Waste of Cash:
Exactly two things have made airline travel safer since 9/11: reinforcement of cockpit doors, and passengers who now know that they may have to fight back. Everything else -- Secure Flight and Trusted Traveler included -- is security theater.Schneier on Security: Perceived Risk vs. Actual Risk:
When people voluntarily take a risk, they tend to underestimate it. When they have no choice but to take the risk, they tend to overestimate it. Terrorists are scary because they attack arbitrarily, and from nowhere. Commercial airplanes are perceived as riskier than automobiles, because the controls are in someone else’s hands -- even though they’re much safer per passenger mile.
Friday, November 03, 2006
Edge: THANK GOODNESS! by Daniel C Dennett
Edge: THANK GOODNESS! by Daniel C Dennett: "The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God is that there really are lots of ways of repaying your debt to goodness—by setting out to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come. Goodness comes in many forms, not just medicine and science. Thank goodness for the music of, say, Randy Newman, which could not exist without all those wonderful pianos and recording studios, to say nothing of the musical contributions of every great composer from Bach through Wagner to Scott Joplin and the Beatles. Thank goodness for fresh drinking water in the tap, and food on our table. Thank goodness for fair elections and truthful journalism. If you want to express your gratitude to goodness, you can plant a tree, feed an orphan, buy books for schoolgirls in the Islamic world, or contribute in thousands of other ways to the manifest improvement of life on this planet now and in the near future."
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Economy lectures for the citizen
Economics for the citizen:
From part 2:
At the beginning of each semester, I tell students that my economic theory course will deal with positive, nonnormative economic theory. I also tell them that if they hear me making a normative statement without first saying, “In my opinion,” they are to raise their hands and say, “Professor Williams, we didn’t take this class to be indoctrinated with your personal opinions passed off as economic theory; that’s academic dishonesty.”
From part 3:
I’m reminded of charges of exploitation Mrs. Williams used to make early on in our 44-year marriage. She’d charge, “Walter, you’re using me!” I’d respond by saying, “Honey, sure, I’m using you. If I had no use for you, I wouldn’t have married you in the first place.” How many of us would marry a person for whom we had no use? As a matter of fact, the problem of the lonely hearts among us is that they can’t find someone to use them.
From part 2:
At the beginning of each semester, I tell students that my economic theory course will deal with positive, nonnormative economic theory. I also tell them that if they hear me making a normative statement without first saying, “In my opinion,” they are to raise their hands and say, “Professor Williams, we didn’t take this class to be indoctrinated with your personal opinions passed off as economic theory; that’s academic dishonesty.”
From part 3:
I’m reminded of charges of exploitation Mrs. Williams used to make early on in our 44-year marriage. She’d charge, “Walter, you’re using me!” I’d respond by saying, “Honey, sure, I’m using you. If I had no use for you, I wouldn’t have married you in the first place.” How many of us would marry a person for whom we had no use? As a matter of fact, the problem of the lonely hearts among us is that they can’t find someone to use them.
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