Sevdiğim Film/Oyun Müzikleri

Dram ve kahramanlığa zaafı olan bendenizi hislendiren film/oyun müziklerinden bir demet... Bir gün bir sunuşta kullanmak üzere...

Film: Plunkett & Macleane / Müzik: "Escape" - Craig Armstrong:



Film: 300 / Müzik: "Just Like You Imagined" - Nine Inch Nails



Oyun: Doom 3 / Müzik: Bitiş müziği (Doom 3 theme)

Design that Matters

Design that Matters (DtM) mission:

Our mission is to create products that improve the services of social enterprises in developing countries. DtM leverages the skills and intellectual capital of hundreds of volunteers in academia and industry to create breakthrough solutions for communities in need.

(pdf) Implementation and Initial Assessment of the Design That Matters Program at MIT and other Universities:

DtM serves as the "institutional memory" ... to allow successive teams of students to build on each other's work.

In selecting problems to address, DtM relies on the
following basic selection criteria:
• Need: the design challenge meets a real need, something
that seriously affects the lives of thousands or even
millions of people.
• Scope: we can provide sufficient information and enough
focus to make the problem accessible to students in a
single semester. This may involve breaking a large
problem up into smaller component problems.
• Contacts: there exist community/stakeholder
representatives, NGO contacts and domain experts who
can answer questions and are willing and able to put the
student innovations to immediate use.
• Status: there are no existing, satisfactory solutions to this
problem, nor do any appear to be in development.

DtM specifically targets design challenges that assist
communities to exploit local resources in a sustainable fashion.

mp3: Craig Armstrong - Escape

Kitap: Becoming a Technical Leader

Etkin problem çözen bireylerin ve ekiplerin oluşturulması ile ilgili ipuçlarını anlatıyor Becoming a Technical Leader, Gerald M. Weinberg, 1986:

[p.22] Many children have never known the ecstasy of having one of their ideas heard, let alone used to solve a problem. After a while, they stop trying to work with ideas. Some of them grow up trying to stop others.

[p.29] More important than the clever idea is creating an environment where the right idea for solving the problem will be recognized when it comes along.

[p.40] In order to climb, you must leave the sure footing, letting go of what you already do well and possibly slipping downward into a ravine. If you never let go of what you already do well, you may continue to make steady progress, but you'll never get off the plateau.

[p.44] Instead of feeling anxious, defensive, and worthless, I felt excited, creative, and capable of coping with almost everything. To achieve this kind of metalearning, you have to survive the first ravine. Not everyone has sufficient motivation, or can take the emotional shock.

[p.65] The only way we can see ourselves is through other people.

[p.80] I don't know what you need to learn about yourself, and chances are you don't either. That's no excuse for not keeping a journal. In fact, it's the best reason to keep one.

[p.86] To anyone who isn't blinded by the threat/reward model, the world is overflowing with ideas. In fact, every mistake is a new idea, if seen by a mind prepared to use it.

[p.89] The emphasis on competition ... can create individuals who believe that it's desirable to be the smartest, and the emphasis on tests can inculcate the idea that there is one and only one right answer to everything.

[p.111] We tend to think that our messages are perfectly clear, but you can generally assume something will be lost in every reception. The same applies when you are on the receiving end. You never get exactly what was sent.

[p.125] When things don't go according to plan, only the adaptability of people can rescue the operation.

[p.127] If you are a leader, the people are your work. There is no other work worh doing.

[p.135] If people don't want your help, you'll never succeed in helping them, no matter how smart or wonderful you are.

[p.190] Encourage others to use facts and logic before changing their minds.

[p.190] Consesus teams may be slow when they first form, but tend to become superfast once team members get to know each other.

[p.201] Regarding people as if they were machines is another big obstacle to effective organization... when carried too far it leads to ever-expanding books of standards and procedures as the basis for organization; and as the books grow in precision, they diminish in effectiveness. Nobody ever takes the time to read them, let alone follow them. The leader who is busy organizing through written procedures and memos soon loses touch with the people who are supposed to be following them.

[p.204] In the most effective organizations, everyone is solving problems and making decisions, as required to get the job done.

[p.236] By and large, technical workers tend to be stronger on the planning side than the personality side ... That's why computer programmers are so happy working with their machines: Personality doesn't influence computers.

[p.236] If you really can't stand being tested, you should stay out of leadership roles.

[p.252] ...you have to let them make mistakes. It's part of the price you pay, and it's more efficient in the long run.

[p.273] ...three questions [before taking the lead]: 1. Whay do I want to do this? 2. What assets do I have to contribute? 3. What liabilities do I bring?

Who Rules America: Power at the local level

Who Rules America: Power at the local level:

...the residents of a city want the local government to spend a greater share of its budget on municipal services, social services, parks, and other amenities. But the growth coalitions want the lion's share of the money to go to physical infrastructure and anything else that aids growth. Once people are in the city, the growth coalitions do not worry much about them. Its members are very shortsighted if spans of decades are taken into consideration.

Academic Earth

Lectures graded by users: Academic Earth. Thanks to Arda

I just watched How to live given the certainty of death and I recommend it.

Gölcük 2

Bolu/Gölcük'e en son 2006 Eylül'ünde gitmiş, hep tekrar gitmek istemiştik. Kısmet bugüneymiş.

Sandviçlerimizi hazırlayıp termosa da çayımızı koyup düştük yola. Tabiatta mangala karşı olduğumu daha önce de söylemiştim. Ortalığın içine etmenin (tabiat kokusu yerine mangal kokusu hakimdi) yanısıra yükünüzü ve yapmanız gereken işi arttırıyor. Çevrenin tadını çıkaracağınıza, yemeğe konsantre olmak zorunda kalıyorsunuz. Gölcük yemek için bir dekor değil, yemek çabucak halledilmesi gereken bir angarya (annem bu yorumumdan hoşlanmayacaktır). Basit kaşarlı sandviçler yeterli. İki kişinin yükü, küçük bir sırt çantasını geçmemeli.

Hava serindi ve sis hakimdi. Gölü aheste tempoyla turladıktan sonra biraz da arabada kitap okuduk ve Ankara'ya döndük. Sonbaharda tekrar görüşmek üzere...

Pasteurization vs Sterilization

Today I learned the difference (wikipedia):

Unlike sterilization, pasteurization is not intended to kill all pathogenic micro-organisms in the food or liquid. Instead, pasteurization aims to reduce the number of viable pathogens so they are unlikely to cause disease (assuming the pasteurization product is refrigerated and consumed before its expiration date). Commercial-scale sterilization of food is not common because it adversely affects the taste and quality of the product. Certain food products are processed to achieve the state of Commercial sterility.

Pasteurization typically uses temperatures below boiling since at temperatures above the boiling point for milk, casein micelles will irreversibly aggregate (or "curdle").

Bonus 1: Cloning ants

Mycocepurus smithii is the first known ant species to consist exclusively of females and to reproduce asexually. The species, which lives in South America, reproduces by cloning—all ants in a colony are clones of the queen.

Bonus 2: Cloned camel:

Injaz (Arabic: إنجاز‎, meaning "achievement"; born April 8, 2009) is a female dromedary camel, credited with being the world's first cloned camel.

Bonus 3: Ageing (Senescence)

Lately the role of telomeres in cellular senescence has aroused general interest, especially with a view to the possible genetically adverse effects of cloning. The successive shortening of the chromosomal telomeres with each cell cycle is also believed to limit the number of divisions of the cell, thus contributing to aging. There have, on the other hand, also been reports that cloning could alter the shortening of telomeres.

Cancer cells are usually immortal. This evasion of cellular senescence is the result, in about 85% of tumors, of up-activation of their telomerase genes. This simple observation suggests that reactivation of telomerases in healthy individuals could greatly increase their cancer risk.

Whether cell senescence plays any role in organismal aging is at present unknown, and is an active area of investigation.