http://zetazeros.wordpress.com Transire suum pectus mundoque potiri Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:18:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This blog post is about 3 documents I found recently, which are both interesting and correlating. The first is the 1998 article by Francis Crick and Christof Koch with the title : Consciousness and Neuroscience. The second is a brochure by SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) about the possibility of ... http://zetazeros.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/consciousness-and-applied-mathematics/ It's been about 10 days since I came back from Denmark. My return flight was through Zürich, so I went for the 2nd time downtown, where I visited ETH and University of Zürich and I had a coffee at the very nice Cafe Zähringer. Following are some facts about Denmark and Copenhagen. One ... http://zetazeros.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/various-facts-about-denmark/ Εάν οι φυσικές ή πνευματικές σου ικανότητες είναι ανώτερες αυτών που σε περιβάλλουν, αυτές σου οι δεξιότητες, αυτά τα δώρα της φύσης, δεν πρέπει να χρησιμοποιηθούν σαν μια πλατφόρμα για να υψωθείς πιο ψηλά από τους λιγότερο χαρισματικούς συντρόφους σου, αλλά πρέπει να χρησιμοποιηθούν σαν ένας συλλογικός θησαυρός, και το ... http://zetazeros.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/86/ End of the first week here at DTU and the 66th ESGI and we already work for 2 days on the Industrial Problems. We had to give some assignments on the end of the first part of the DCAMM Ph.D. course, so I gave one in modeling a company and another ... http://zetazeros.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/more-adventures-from-copenhagen/ Reporting from Copenhagen : Hello people. It is my 4th day here and it is time for some posting. We had classes for the past 3 days, so the morning were spent on that. Optimization the first day, Dynamic Processes and Optimal Experimental Design the second day and today we conclude with Geometrical ... http://zetazeros.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/sunshine-in-zurich-sunset-in-k%c3%b8benhavn/ Long time, no see... This has been a long month... I had some good time in Crete, where I stayed for 2 weeks, visiting Herakleion, Rethymno, Agio Nikolao, Malia, Ierapetra, Matala and other places... South Crete absolutely rocks! The time in Athens was mostly spent with soirées at our empty houses and  ... http://zetazeros.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/and-travelling/ It's been a while since my last post... My trip to Regina ended, I had a very good time the last few days there and met some interesting people and after spending one day in Amsterdam, I came back to a really hot Athens and the exams... This explains the ... http://zetazeros.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/catching-up/ The IPSW week is ending today, so it is time for a new post. I worked on the problem of modeling cancer cells growth and trying to find the best combination of anti-angiogenic drugs, chemotherapy and radiotherapy in terms of dosage, frequency, scheduling and side effects. The problem proved to be ... http://zetazeros.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/regina-week-2-ipsw/ The first week of the GIMMC is over and there is one more week left before I go back to Greece and the exams. The past week I have been working on the problem of snow removal for the city of Regina. Our mentor was Dr. Ed Doolittle and we were able ... http://zetazeros.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/regina-week-1-gimmc/ Day one of my trip and I departed in the morning from Athens to Amsterdam. The flight was good and arrived in Amsterdam at 7.20. I also had the chance to meet the girl sitting next to me, so we walked for a couple of hours downtown, drinking a coffee at a ... http://zetazeros.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/day-1-nw-2067-aka-the-damned-flight/ In 5 days from now I will be on a plane going 9000 klm across the world. I'm going to Regina the capital of the Saskatchewan province of Canada where I will attend the 2008 PIMS Industrial Problem Solving Workshop and Graduate Industrial Mathematics Modelling Camp. It will take place at University ... http://zetazeros.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/industrial-math-regina/ The last few days a huge stupid-storming called Eurovision (lame music contest) stormed over Europe. Hundreds of thousands of people voluntarily let the TV suck their brains... This is my tribute to them... ... So if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project--every page, every edit, ... http://zetazeros.wordpress.com/2008/05/25/weapons-of-mass-distraction/ I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the Only Wise. This they do with a confident insolence sprouting from systematic reasoning. William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ... ... Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish ... http://zetazeros.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/doors-in-the-wall/ Last Edited : 26 June 2008 Here is a list of the summer schools organized in Greece this summer and a few interesting seminars in the next months. As you can see, this is a (scientifically) hot summer in Greece! ;-) Summer Schools Economics & Econometrics Advanced Summer School (Rethymno, Crete) EKEFE Demokritos Summer ... http://zetazeros.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/greek-summer-schools-and-seminars/ Recently, I decided to learn how to use the functional programming tools provided by Python. Truth is, it's interestingly strong. The whole concept consists of using 3 built-in functions (map, filter, reduce), lambda functions and of course the beloved List Comprehensions. In order of appearance : map (function, sequence) : It applies function on ... http://zetazeros.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/functional-programming-in-python/