Friday, August 21. 2009Google found me![]() # grep q=stephan.paukner.cc /var/log/apache2/access.log
74.125.75.1 - - [19/Aug/2009:22:27:50 +0200]
"GET /gallery/d/3633-3/clouds.flv HTTP/1.1"
200 24576 "http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=
stephan.paukner.cc" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909
Firefox/1.5.0.7"
# whois 74.125.75.1 | grep Name:
OrgName: Google Inc.
NetName: GOOGLE
OrgTechName: Google Inc. Interesting that a Google guy/gal uses an ancient Firefox on an ancient crappy OS (Win XP). Testing purposes? And interesting also that this was a targeted search. Apropos, I tried to re-establish Yahoo! as my default interface to the web. It turned out to not deliver the results that I expected, but Google did. Another argument against Yahoo! is that they’re flirting with Microsoft; too bad that Yahoo! 0wns Flickr. Friday, August 7. 2009EPIC banking FAIL![]()
Ja, genau! Also bis spätestens morgen 12 Uhr das Geld fürs Wochenende abheben! Tuesday, June 30. 2009Kerze, du musst verschwinden![]() 1983_kerze_du_musst_verschwinden.mp3 Kerze, du musst verschwinden Copyright © 1983 by Stephan Paukner Tuesday, June 23. 2009Discount FAIL![]() Wednesday, March 18. 2009School nightmares![]() From xkcd #557: FULL ACK! In the first years after my school graduation, already attending university, those dreams developed the situation that graduates are compelled to revisit school for one month every year to refresh a basic knowledge in various subjects—a not too weird idea after all. I went through situations like not remembering the location of our class room, teachers being upset about me not having shown up for long, or having hopelessly missed several exams. Through the years those dreams had to cope with my consciously strengthened memory about my school graduation and about that such a revisiting month simply doesn’t exist. However, a geeky brain like mine is still able to form a new plot. I think I got rid of those dreams with my university graduation, having settled the idea of not having to attend unpleasant exams ever again. But I probably enjoy being a science/math/computer nerd way too much and should deal more with average daily knowledge about politics, economy, society and culture. A reason why those dreams come up at all might be that stress and pressure at school are much more formative than they will later be in real working life.
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Sunday, March 15. 2009Macht mich das rasend?![]() Ich habe einen alten Forenbeitrag von mir aus dem Jahr 2002 ausgegraben, den ich aus aktuellem Anlass sogar unverändert wiedergeben kann:
Und auf die aktuelle Amoklauf-Diskussion bezogen: Klar spielt auch ein psychisch gestörter Waffennarr gerne Ballerspiele. Das ist aber Wirkung, nicht Ursache. Amokschützen gab es doch schon vor zig Jahrzehnten. Für gesunde, ausgewogene Psychen sind actionreicher Sport, Spiel, Filme und Games einfach eine Möglichkeit sich auszugleichen, abzureagieren. Wenn politisch Aktive lieber die Unterhaltungsmöglichkeiten für alle Bevölkerungsschichten einschränken, liegt dies wohl eher an Macht- und Kontrollsucht und einer starken Waffenlobby. Das ist ein Grund zum Fürchten! Im übrigen ist es wohl eher die schlechte Kombination von hohem Testosteronspiegel und angeschlagener Psyche, die in Aggression, Raserei, Gewalt, Krieg, usw. mündet. Dummerweise führt genau das aber auch zu führenden politischen Ämtern. Wednesday, March 11. 2009Freedom and confinement now over![]() It was exactly three years ago when I sold my previous car. The months before that sale were such a torture and the sale itself was such a relief that I decided to go on without an automobile for some time. I had been living in a vicious circle: I rarely used the car as it was always broken, and it was always broken as I only used it rarely and had it parked outside in all weathers. And because I actually only needed it rarely in the big city, it wasn’t that hard living without one. However, it really would have been impossible without Doris’ company car that enabled a casual weekend shopping or similar. But furnishing our new home outside the urban area was unthinkable with that small vehicle, what forced us to borrow a car from our families once in a while. Our demands have changed and the torture is now exactly on the immobile side, what led us to the acquisition of a more spacious vehicle. We broke it down to a Škoda Fabia station wagon, as the Octavia model provides more space than we really need. Although a certain Austrian cabaret artist makes fun of people who buy a Škoda with extra equipment (i.e. those who want to have everything but don’t want to pay for it), we just became such folks. It’ll be a Fabia II Combi Elegance 1.6 with 77 kW in Flamenco red Anthracite gray and will arrive at the beginning of May. The list price was just under €20,000.
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Sunday, February 8. 2009ORF.at: Wie Computer sehen lernen![]() Der ORF hat einen Artikel zur von mir vorgestern erwähnten Ö1-Sendung nachgeworfen, offenbar als Vorschau auf die heutige Sendung „Matrix“ um 22.30h, in der es ebenfalls um Computer Vision bzw. maschinelles Sehen geht. Die Autoren erwähnen dabei auch die Möglichkeit, dass die Community für korrekt annotierte Trainingsdaten sorgt, die dann den Machine Learning-Algorithmen zur Verfügung stehen – eine Sache, die mich auch beruflich beschäftigt. Bin gespannt, wie sich das alles weiterentwickelt.
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