Computopia~Nebulococcygea

THE END

2007-05-20T11:55:00.000-07:00

AFTER MONTHS OF SERIOUS FATIGUE,FINALLY I SHUT DOWN THIS SITE DUE TO A MIXTURE OF SEVERE PERSONAL AND HEALTH PROBLEMS...
GOOD BYE AND WISH TO ALL OF YOU OUT THERE THAT MAY TRAVERSE MY NODE IN THE WEB ACCIDENTALLY-RANDOMLY- OR ON PURPOSE-WHAT A PITTY- GOOD LUCK AND HOPEFULLY WHATEVER YOU WANT FINALLY TO ACHIEVE IT...
IN CONCLUSION ,I CHOSE THE SONG FROM THE WALL.........
GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD,I AM LEAVING YOU TODAY,GOODBYE,GOODBYE..........

YANNIS

ROCK HISTORY

2007-05-16T17:21:00.001-07:00

In the fore coming posts i will try to write a mini review of rock history.Mostly i will focus on my favorite bands ...A retrospective from the germinal stage of rock until 2007 including some new bands....Also i will try not just to make a review but a further research mainly try to find why UK was the birth place of some of the top bands (even if i don't like UK) and even nowadays has potential......
Namely,some of my favorite rock bands:
Doors,Pink Floyd,Beattles,Rolling Stones,Jethro Tull,Jefferson Aiplane,

On the power of greek language and the affinity with english language

2007-05-09T14:17:00.000-07:00

Zolotas speeches....

First speech - September 26, 1957

" Kyrie,

I eulogize the archons of the Panethnic Numismatic Thesaurus and the Ecumenical Trapeza for the orthodoxy of their axioms, methods and policies, although there is an episode of cacophony of the Trapeza with Hellas.

With enthusiasm we dialogue and synagonize at the synods of our didymous Organizations in which polymorphous economic ideas and dogmas are analyzed and synthesized.

Our critical problems such as the numismatic plethora generate some agony and melancholy. This phenomenon is characteristic of our epoch. But, to my thesis, we have the dynamism to program therapeutic practices as a prophylaxis from chaos and catastrophe.

In parallel, a panethnic unhypocritical economic synergy and harmonization in a democratic climate is basic.

I apologize for my eccentric monologue. I emphasize my eucharistia to you Kyrie, to the eugenic and generous American Ethnos and to the organizers and protagonists of this Amphictyony and the gastronomic symposia.''

Prof. Xenofon Zolotas

Second speech - October 2, 1959

" Kyrie,

It is Zeus' anathema on our epoch for the dynamism of our economies and the heresy of our economic methods and policies that we should agonise between the Scylla of numismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia.

It is not my idiosyncrasy to be ironic or sarcastic but my diagnosis would be that politicians are rather cryptoplethorists. Although they emphatically stigmatize numismatic plethora, energize it through their tactics and practices.

Our policies have to be based more on economic and less on political criteria.

Our gnomon has to be a metron between political, strategic and philanthropic scopes. Political magic has always been antieconomic.

In an epoch characterised by monopolies, oligopolies, menopsonies, monopolistic antagonism and polymorphous inelasticities, our policies have to be more orthological. But this should not be metamorphosed into plethorophobia which is endemic among academic economists.

Numismatic symmetry should not antagonize economic acme.

A greater harmonization between the practices of the economic and numismatic archons is basic.

Parallel to this, we have to synchronize and harmonize more and more our economic and numismatic policies panethnically.

These scopes are more practical now, when the prognostics of the political and economic barometer are halcyonic.

The history of our didymous organisations in this sphere has been didactic and their gnostic practices will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethnical economics. The genesis of the programmed organisations will dynamize these policies. I sympathise, therefore, with the aposties and the hierarchy of our organisations in their zeal to programme orthodox economic and numismatic policies, although I have some logomachy with them.

I apologize for having tyrannized you with my hellenic phraseology.

In my epilogue, I emphasize my eulogy to the philoxenous autochthons of this cosmopolitan metropolis and my encomium to you, Kyrie, and the stenographers."

Prof. Xenofon Zolotas

Theory makes Practice

2007-04-03T10:19:00.000-07:00

Mmmmm.
I enjoy theoretical aspects of science,even if i have an engineering background,i think that abstract and theoretical inclination is more beneficial in long term scale....
Even if the applied stuff is better for your pocket :),the theoretical breakthroughs are more seminal and their implications would shape almost every aspect of our lifes.
For instance,say that you prove and give an answer to an open problem-like Grisha Perelman did-and his breakthrough was of global respect and would shape the science for the upcoming years,although a small fraction of people knows his work and how seminal is...Albeit everybody knows Google,which is not that clever but is was breakthrough in ~1995-98 and uses obsolete mathematics:)-I mean it is advanced but not that advanced:)-.
For those who have an interest in theory you can find the blog of Luca Trevisan who is professor in UC Berkeley in CS Division somewhat amusing .Go check it....

Everything needs an overhaul...

2007-01-20T16:46:00.001-08:00

What a society..what an obsession ...what a strange affinity and kinship among everybody in cyberspace and real life..
Is my belief that someday a robust department for net context elegancy should be established...
The last days i have seen a bunch of things that make me nervous and get me pissed off...
An overhaul is mandatory...also for some people is essential a type of matrix test which can recognize -robustly and efficiently- the lunacy of some "writers"and "savants"..-Of course even for me -...
Cheers,
Yannis

Persona non grata...

2007-01-06T11:53:00.000-08:00

Oh my God...I am feeling really depressed..and simultaneously excited ..What the hell is going on with me?Is something biologically related or just my mental state which randomly is performing bipolar switching?
I am feeling like a markov process,or like a boltzmann machine
Somebody ..help me?
mmm..Beattles...Help I need somebody,Help,not just anybody,help,i need someone......

A view of my mind...

2007-01-01T09:36:00.000-08:00

Happy new year......

Best Wishes..

2006-12-28T23:50:00.000-08:00

We are approaching the dawn of 2007...These days are a pretty good opportunity to agglomerate everything that happened to us this year.For me it can be considered among the worst years of my life...I don't know the reason...At least,hopefully ,2007 can be better.I wish for everybody on this fucking planet his/her hidden joys ,ambition,wishes finally to be implemented...

Best Wishes Yannis..

She had no idea

2006-12-16T21:07:00.000-08:00

Tutoring via Internet

2006-12-16T17:19:00.000-08:00

I just returned from a walk in the centre of Athens.I am a little bit tired..But lucky for me i found wonderful material over the net.
You can see the lectures series held in Microsoft Research by distinguished professors on various topics.Frankly some of the topics are of crucial importance.I noticed some lectures over the Perelman's work http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman who declined the highest accolade for mathematicians the Fields Medal-equivalent to Nobel Prize-.

Additionally the lectures are really didactic and some of them are really fruitful.In case you have time and you want to have fun ,you can access them here..Some of them are on Computer Science(Theory and more applied stuff),Mathematics ,Statistics and Applied Probability,etc
http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayinst.aspx?fID=880

Improptu bilge

2006-12-15T17:27:00.000-08:00

The mind is really a powerful "machinery".Some support the notion :"Use it or Loose It",sometimes i think that it is true..The last period i am observing that my level of concentration is decling,the rate approximately is exponential...I am a little bit tired and scared..Why this happens to me right now?

To anyone who feels lonely sometimes..the next image

Fundamentals of Computers Retrospective

2006-12-15T10:28:00.001-08:00

Painful Topics

2006-12-13T13:53:00.000-08:00

I don't know..Sometimes..I am wondering..Am i just reclusive and seem to the others like an alien,or the others tend to be more conformists..
My inner pain is incurable and unfortunately maybe it is going to be perpetual..Additionally my idiosyncracy doesn't allow to anybody to bend my egoism and pride..
I have a bunch of topics that really pain me..Some of them have a concrete description and other more abstract ...But all of them even if they are terse and succinct,all are intractable and baffling..
Today i feel really tired ...maybe i am declining steadily...

Sex Flower By Pink Floyd-The Wall,1982-

2006-12-10T15:00:00.000-08:00

I just posted the flower..It was a slightly spontaneous..The last days i waded in some of my music library..I found my collection of Pink Floyd..They accompanied my lonely days especially before the Panhellenic Exams..I cannot distinguish any of their songs(even if most songs were inspired by Rogers Waters)..
Pretty much i had something like dajavou..I scrutined again & again the song Young Lust.
The irony..the song was written by Gilmour too.
The lyrics:
Young Lust (Gilmour, Waters) 2:03
I am just a new boy,
Stranger in this town.
Where are all the good times?
Who's gonna show this stranger around?
Ooooh, I need a dirty woman.
Ooooh, I need a dirty girl.
Will some cold woman in this desert land
Make me feel like a real man?
Take this rock and roll refugeeOooh, baby set me free.
Ooooh, I need a dirty woman.
Ooooh, I need a dirty girl.
[Phone rings..Clink of receiver being lifted]
"Hello..?"
"Yes, a collect call for Mrs. Floyd from Mr. Floyd.
Will you accept the charges from United States?"
[clunk! of phone being put down]
"Oh, He hung up! That's your residence, right?
I wonder why he hung up?
Is there supposed to be someone else there besides your wife there to answer?"
[Phone rings again...clunk of receiver being picked up]
"Hello?""This is United States calling, are we reaching...
[interrupted by phone being put down]"
See he keeps hanging up, and it's a man answering."
[whirr of connection being closed]

2006-12-10T14:44:00.000-08:00

Hi everybody...

Manifestation:Purpose of this blog..

2006-12-01T08:06:00.000-08:00

The ussual issues of this blog lie in the field of Computer Science-almost all branches of CS,some elements of Philosophy and in general context the conduit between Computer Science and other Sciences..
My interests at least for this period are:
-Database Theory
-Theory of CS,complexity theory
-Cryptography
-Computational Biology
-Programming Languages
-Computer Architecture
Furthermore.. i am intrigued by unsolved problems and hopefully i would like to enhance my problem solving ability..
Also i am thinking to follow a more philosophical pathway if my time permits it..and some ideas will be posted soon