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Music for Saturday – You Better You Bet

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I want those feeble minded axes overthrown
I’m not into your passport picture, I just like your nose
You welcome me with open arms and open legs
I know only fools have needs, but this one never begs

I don’t really mind how much you love me
Ooh, a little is alright
When you say
come over and spend the night
Tonight
Tonight

:)

The Project Manager and the Importance of Being Wrong

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We live in the era of absolute certainty; We born and grew up into a system where thecultural and academic adjustment - according to which society or the dominant intelligentsia think is right, of course - is awarded and the ‘error’ is punished with low grades at school, where concepts remain hard right and wrong, success and failure. Education systems, in general, are embedded in a culture that stifles and stigmatizes the error because the focus is in the result rather than focus on the process.

Rewarding the formal perfectionism and punish those who did not fill into this scheme is a subtle and cruel form of social control. It also creates an ’invisible cage’ which limits our ability to think and act differently than mainstraim for fear,rightly, of making mistakes. Continue reading →

Silicon for a Smarter Planet

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Great article by John Cohn Ph.D, talking about new technologies for a smarter world:

When you think about a Smarter Planet, you may not have chips in mind, but the fact is that semiconductors are critical to a world that is intelligent, interconnected and instrumented. And you may be surprised to discover that IBM provides the chips and chip technology making that happen – particularly in the products and applications we use every day.

You may already know that IBM’s Microelectronics Division(MD) – the organization I’m with – has been making IBM systems more intelligent for more than four decades. MD’s semiconductor technology is used to build the silicon ‘brains’ behind all of IBM’s high-end servers. In fact, we’re very proud that IBM’s wonderful Watson computer used 100’s of Microelectronics’ advanced 45-nanometer Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) chips to help it outwit its competition in the Jeopardy! challenge.

Don’t miss the video presentation, too:

You can read all the article here!