Books 1
Journeys 0
Life is a long journey. And that's one of my favourite passions: Travelling. No worries whether by train, bicycle or bus, nor what language to speak... Diving in to other cultures, learning about their way of thinking and living. Usually I'd check clima tables beforehand to find a reasonable season for travelling. And I avoid the big cities for they are all the same to me. I rather enjoy myself in the rural areas and country side for less pollution and traffic noise. Knowing that advertisement for the neat and less discovered places tends to spoil them, I do hope they do remain as nice and welcoming as I discovered them.
IT Playground 1
Welcome to my technology playground.
When weather does not inspire me for outdoor activities, I enjoy diving into various IT topics to gain and maintain the knowledge I keep teaching in school. Basically, I'm fascinated and attracted by Open-Source IT softwares or standards like
1. Linux
2. Python, JS
3. MySQL/MariaDB
4. Arduino
Since my time in university, I've been fascinated by the possibilities of artificial intelligence. Back then, we'd learned how to recognice handwritten digits. Today, I'm intrigued by the scientific achivements made available by AI frameworks like TensorFlow.
I suppose many software projects would better meet user needs if they were open source for three reasons:
1. as a user, I have the freedom to customize and improve the software as I wish. This could actually encourage more people to learn programming.
2. as a user or organization, I can check the source for malicious or unwanted parts (like trackers, spyware etc.)
3. by buying or ordering only open source products, my organisation has the freedom to adapt the software to meet actual needs.
Saying this, I am well aware that open source software does cost money (or at least a lot of time) to develop, test and distribute.
Notice: Schirmer Scientific Systems is now Green-ORCA :: Operations Research Computing and Analysis Schirmer