Sun 18 August 2019 Translations: en
I re(re)started writing here about six months ago. Although many things have happened, there’s one that I’ve been thinking about: I’ve been living in this city for six years, and for eight in this country. With all its great and not so great things, this …
Sun 17 March 2019
«Éste es nuestro treno».
Thu 28 February 2019 Translations: en
I did many things in this short month. It started with the Lunar New year and indeed it felt a bit like the real start of the year (and there were other beginnings as well). I also started writing again here, so it would be good to start posting more …
Sun 24 February 2019
I watched The Thin Blue Line this weekend. I liked it for multiple reasons: the story is of course one of them, the soundtrack is another one. Both are great and sad in many ways. There are many questions to ask about what happened to Adams, but I’ve been …
Sat 28 January 2017
Conflict Kitchen is a restaurant that serves food from countries which are in conflict with the United States. I went a couple of times while I was living in Pittsburgh. I had arepas from Venezuela, Cuban rice with black beans, and various delicious street food from Afghanistan and Iran. Twice …
Sun 10 January 2016
A couple of days ago, Laura mentioned on Twitter that the periodic table has changed a lot since she studied it at school. I started to think about that and remembered that the layout from Mendeleev had gaps for the elements yet to be discovered, so it would be interesting …
Mon 21 December 2015
The Strange Persistence of First Languages describes how first languages persist, even after they have been (apparently) replaced by a different language. For example, the first language shapes our ability recognize sounds and to understand variations, such as tones, at a very young age. Also, sometimes the first language becomes …
Sun 18 October 2015
Hace tiempo leí Leyendas del Tour (Legends of the Tour), de Jan Cleijne. Es una novela gráfica sobre los ciclistas, campeones o no, más recordados del Tour de Francia. Lo leí cuando estaba en medio la fiebre del ciclismo de ruta y me gustó conocer la historia de la carrera …
Sun 29 January 2012 Tags: bulk
Here are four short notes that were not short enough to be tweets, nor long enough to be posts on their own.
Now They’re Sixty-Four is a fun article about pilgrimages to Liverpool. I feel uncomfortable about tribute bands; playing covers is OK, but copying their appearance, haircuts and …
Wed 28 December 2011 Tags: proxy
Aprovechando las vacaciones y que ahora tengo una mejor idea de clasificadores automáticos, actualicé mi programa que indica si el nombre de una persona es de género masculino o femenino. Cambié la forma de representar los datos, el algoritmo de clasificación y la librería que utilizaba para implementarlo. El nuevo …