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  • Why do we have to learn maths?

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    Great talk by Tony DeRose. He shows how addition, multiplication, geometry and trigonometry are playing a role in Pixar movies. Of course, this is just the surface. They use much further mathematics at Pixar, but being a 15 year old student, this makes sense why you have to learn these not so simple stuff in…

  • right now there is…

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    Let’s make teaching, education entertaining. I’ve always knew that Rap, hip-hop is something great. But never thought about it this way. 🙂 Great talk. Magic can be taught. By allowing teachers to go to places where the magic happens.

  • Skype translator, self-driving car

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    Wow! 2 amazing innovations in one day! Let’s start what Microsoft did with Skype Translator. Google Translate has been around for quite a long time. It is great to get the sense of any written text in almost any language. But it isn’t really effective. I mean it translates, but it’s not always understandable. Google…

  • education vs innovation

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    Slides of the presentation I did today at BKF. Educacion vs and innovation. Let’s use technology in education. Let’s use it the right way. Technology itself can’t change the way we teach. Teachers can change the education. We need innovative teachers, who become guides for the students in the jungle of technology.

  • 10 lesser known facts about maths

    10 lesser known facts about maths

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    Found a great infographics about maths on visually. Visually is a great website for searching and creating infographics. Studygeek has other great mathematics related infographics. After seeing the infographics on visually I found the “extracted” version on Edudemic. I use maths instead of math. Although sometimes I cut the s to fit in a 140…

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    While playing on the iPad.

  • Jetpack share + Nginx

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    You could face a similar problem I had recently running WordPress using Nginx + php-fpm. When a share button (not the original ones, but the ones made by Jetpack) is clicked, a smaller new window is opened with the post in it, but nothing is shared. The solution is very easy, you have to replace…

  • (anti-)social media

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    Social Media is the place on the Internet, where people are should be social. Should be. Because many of them aren’t social at all.  They don’t even bother with comments and responses coming from other people. They post selfies and use Twitter/Instagram or Facebook like how they use a mirror. Only looking at themselves. A selfie is a type of self-portrait photograph, typically taken…

  • Wolfram Language

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    My jaw hit the floor. I can’t believe this is happening. We are living in an amazing world. What Stephen Wolfram shows in this video is unbelievable. The Wolfram Language is awesome. Programming, mathematics, visualizing gets to the next level. What next? NextNextNext level. I can’t wait to get my hands on this. I was…